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with me, samira ahmed. the bbc pulled out all the stops for the queen's death and its aftermath up to and including herfuneral. did the coverage show the corporation at its finest or was its newsjudgment suspended for 12 days? although the bbc�*s reaction to the death of elizabeth ii had been planned for and rehearsed for several decades, the scale of its response still took many viewers by surprise, from the moment, more than two weeks ago when buckingham palace announced that her majesty was under medical supervision, the normal television and radio schedules were torn up with numerous programmes such as the last two editions of newswatch cancelled. instead, blanket coverage was provided, often on several bbc channels at the same time of the queen's demise, the possession of her coffin and the various ceremonies and rail ——the possession of her coffin and the various ceremonies and royal

trips that followed, culminating in monday's broadcast of the funeral. a few moments ago, buckingham palace announced the death of her majesty queen elizabeth ii. the palace has just issued this statement, it says the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. there were flowers to inspect, the first of what are likely to be many thousands of personal attributes left here and at the other royal residences. then the king made his way into buckingham palace for nearly 200 years, the headquarters of the british monarchy to begin work. they have been turning up in their thousands, noon and night to queue for the claim. ——noon and night to queue for the queen. another chilly start saw blankets handed out along with wristbands as mourners and parked on the ten mile sneaking journey across south east london to the palace of westminster.

the view from the long walk, recorded by thousands of devotees. this was not a crowd of world leaders or dignitaries, but of ordinary people who came to say goodbye. there was praise for many quarters for the technical and editorial quality of the output, with libby wilson writing on monday... others picked out the live streaming of the queen's lying in state at westminster hall for a particular praise. stefan was one of them, e—mailing a huge thank you...

elsewhere, though, there was commentary from presenters during some of the live events of the past fortnight. a lot of commentary. the queen is born to the abbey, where she was married in 1947, crowned in 1953, where she attended royal weddings and funerals. the music already sounding through the historic cathedral, the revrend, the minister of saint giles will be conducting the service. lynn ridgway contacted us last week to say... this was echoed on monday, the day of the funeral.

two of the many viewers who contacted us over the past couple of weeksjoin me now. with me in the studio is richard, interim senior controller news content for bbc news. richard, first, at these particular moments of music and ceremony immediately around the coffin going in, people arriving, the music starting. many people felt that the bbc commentary got it wrong and was too obtrusive. can you understand that? ithink, actually, you know, we made quite a play out of not doing too much commentary. hugh edwards actually said it on the programme itself that we were going to allow a lots of the proceedings to speak for themselves, really. there were such amazing pictures and amazing sound throughout the day. but there is a place also for commentaryjust to provide context and information and to bring the feel of the event even

closer for audiences. you understand why some people perhaps thought the bbc got it wrong on some of that? i think these are always judgements, aren't they? and people will have different views on them, and if you are doing commentary and events, you're making a judgment on a live broadcast as it goes along. i thought the commentary was respectful and got it right. let's hear what our viewers want to talk about. susan, tell us why you contacted us. what was your concern about the coverage? i realise that a death of the monarch has not happened during the era of television before in this country, and so it and so it is probably difficult to know how to play it, but what perturbed me was the length of time that was devoted in the news section of broadcasting to the queen's death and funeral arrangements, to the exclusion virtually, of every other topic. i found this extremely puzzling. fair enough, the first day, the first two days, yes, it was an overwhelming

shock for people. i kept on expecting a section to be announced in other news because they were vital things going on in the world such as the energy crisis, war in ukraine, natural disasters in pakistan, but we heard nothing, even up until monday and tuesday, and then a little bit crept in, and i felt this was excessive. andrea, what about you? i absolutely agree. my thoughts are exactly the same as susan's. i that's why i wrote in. as an example, on friday the 16th, the six o'clock news lasted an hourj and there was less than 15 minutes i devoted to other news and sport, i the rest of it was devoted to royal events and various coverages - associated with that. 0k, thank you. that's a very specific concern. why so many days after was there not a better balance

with the scale of news that was going on in the world? well, ithink, you know, this was a major news story. there's no question about that. i think we where reflecting the overwhelming interest of our audience, and we saw that in terms of the audience figures that came to us online and you can see it in the television figures, more than 30 million watching the funeral. there were events going on in the days after the death that we needed to report on, but, you know, we did report on other news as well. the concern was proporation, wasn't it? it was such a small proportion of bulletins days after. not always. i mean, we lead with ukraine story, which obviously developed significantly during this period, certainly at least on one day when we had our international editor, jeremy bowen, providing explanation on that story and analysis. but, you know, the truth is the overwhelming story of those days was the queen's death and the reaction to her death around

the uk in the world. susan, you had a specific concern about the tone and the kind of emotional approach of interviews, didn't you? yes. i am in fact a reasonable monarchist for various reasons, but emotion doesn't really come into my preference. i would prefer to live under a monarchy than a republic. it's not based on emotion, its based on appreciation of history and continuity and things like that. i felt there was too much emphasis whenever people where interviewed on how they felt, trying to get emotion out of the situation. and i don't always think this is healthy or particularly interesting or helpful. andrea, you raised a question about the coverage of the queue, didn't you? yes, because i think it's very- newsworthy that there was a queue of that extraordinary length, i that definitely deserves to be reported in the news, _ but i don't think that we needed to ask so many people - in the queue to be interviewed

and ask their opinion. to me, that is not news. that's just people's opinions. there should have been more actual news about the good things - going on in the world. pakistan wasn't mentioned, again, for instance, - for quite a number of days. as far as i am aware, - the bbc hasn't even mentioned the brazilian elections that are coming up in october. | now, if bolsonaro gets in again as president, i this will have serious consequences for the rain forest, _ and therefore the planet. i don't know why that hasn't been mentioned, for instance, - by bbc on the television news. andrea, again, going back to the issue about proportion, which is clearly a big concern for some viewers. overall, it seems there are those who felt that the bbc�*s tone, perhaps especially over the course of this period, had a hint of north korea about it, overly mournful with republican

sentiment almost entirely absent from the airwaves. in that sense, it was hardly impartial. i don't think we were overly mournful. i think, you know, as the news broke, you know, it's important to have the right tone, and i think we need to be respectful and reflect what a lot of the audiences were feeling, which was shock and sadness. a degree of remembrance as time goes on. i think the tone then develops and evolves in the days afterwards and i think it became a more news type coverage. i don't accept that we wear north korea. you might not be surprised to hear that, samira, you know, i think we did interrogate, you know, serious questions around the monarchy and empire and colonialism with our reporters around the world. including, you know, nada tawfik speaking injamaica, to a lot of young people there with a lot of sceptical views. we reflected sceptical views in this country as well. but i think overwhelmingly, and what we have seen and heard

from our audiences is that this was a time to remember a queen, to remember somebody who had been a major part of uk life and to do that in a way that, you know, reflected all the emotions that the audience were feeling. richard, thank you. think especially to our viewers, susan and andrea. thank you both. 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 us... or you can find us on twitter... you can call us... and you have a look at previous interviews on our website. that's all from us and we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello. most parts of the uk had sunny skies, albeit with one or two showers and a rather cool feel

to the weather. that band of rain is in no rush to clear, for the of wet weather across the southeast of england, infringing into east anglia at times as we go through the night, and here, it is going to stay mild, further north, spells, wanted to shower is, quite cold there costs some parts of scotland can in fact, attemptjust as i'm getting quite close to freezing. this band of showers moving out of southeast scotland and down into northern england tomorrow morning, some showers pop up elsewhere, particularly pressing and indwells them and not as many for northern ireland or scotland. still this band of rain plaguing the southeast corner on the clearing very slowly. it's going to feel quite cool, quite breezy as well. highs of 14—18 centex lcs. sunday, mainly dry with rain in the northwest later, and then the start of next week looks significantly colder than we have been used to lately.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. russian—occupied regions in ukraine hold votes on whether to join the russian federation — kyiv says it's a sham which is doomed to fail. the kremlin organises rallies to support its policy of calling up reserves to fight in ukraine. 0ur correspondent samples the mood in moscow. this is not a spontaneous display of love for vladimir putin and his policies. it is a highly choreographed affair, designed to give the impression that the whole country is behind the president. meanwhile, russia's neighbours report long queues at the borders — as people leave to avoid being called up to fight in ukraine. here on the uk, a dramatic change in economic direction —