excellent. thanks very much, mark. good to see you, as ever. enjoy your cinema—going this week, whatever you choose to go and see. see you next time. bye—bye. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, shaun ley. how does laura kuenssberg's nous interview hardtalk �*s up to its predecessor. we will ask whether she interrupts her guests too much. first, if politics took something of a back—seat following the death of queen elizabeth, it's been back with a vengeance this week. the announcements from the chancellor from his mid you budget —— many

budget unleashed a torrent from institutions. most of it negative. the bank of england is forced to intervene to bring stability to the financial markets. emergency help was needed, but amid the turmoil, the government is still refusing to change its plans. what about the reporting of the story? did the media and bbc news in particular present too apocalyptic? particular present too apocalyptic a picture of the economic fallout. this caller to the newswatch line thought so. heuo. — my name is anthony waites. i just wonder why the bbc doesn't talk about some of the plus sides of this budget and the falling of the pound. it's going to be very cheap for americans to come here on holiday and it's going to make our exports a hell of a lot cheaper than they have been. so, why isn't there a bit more balance? others thought those benefits

were mentioned sufficiently. this user of social media tweeting as kiril picked out the bbc�*s economics editor for praise. the other big story of the week was hurricane ian, which hit the united states, causing widespread destruction as well as loss of life. there's been plenty of coverage on bbc news of its impact in the united states, including reports on the national bulletins. rather less, though, of the damage and deaths it had caused in cuba, where it struck earlier.

now, it's hard to remember a time when sunday morning television didn't feature a live political interview programme. come the new year, they'll have been one on bbc one for 30 years. the late sir david frost was host for 12 years, andrew marr for 16. and at the start of september, laura kuenssberg inherited the mantle. it's one of the most high—profile jobs in television news. and like her predecessors, she's hooked some important guests. hello, and a very warm welcome to a new show and a new political era. tomorrow, one of these two will be chosen as our new prime minister on tuesday. thank you so much for coming in. and whatever happens, do come back.

applause well, i was going to say going for some reaction from our panel, because listening to that interview at the desk and seeming to applaud joe lycett, the comedian. i love it! this morning, we'll bejoined by two prime ministers — new zealand's jacinda ardern and by the prime minister of bangladesh, sheikh hasina. the key issue at the moment is who is going to pay for this. the key issue for many people listening to you this morning, i think might be that the government's promise to freeze my bills for two years. the labour leader is promising your freedom for six months and then well freedom for six months and then, after that, we'll have a look. people need to know about that. that interview last sunday with sir keir starmer prompted the sort of complaint that's been made many times about different interview programmes and different interviewers,

in previous incarnations, the sunday morning show started with a couple of guests reviewing the newspapers who then disappeared. but on sunday with laura kuenssberg, a panel of three pop up at a number of points during the programme, commenting on the interviews that laura's just done, as well as on other stories of the week — hence the appearance on the first programme of comedianjoe lycett, with that presumably sarcastic response to liz truss, not appreciated by tony webb, who wrote... liz o'donnell had a wider objection. but there have been fans, too, including kenneth ferguson.

so, what does laura herself have to say? here she is. laura, first thing to ask, what are you trying to do with the programme? well, i think the legacy of the sunday morning slot is massive, but i think we were excited to have an opportunity to make something that both respected the heritage of the programme but also moved into the 21st century. and i think both in the way that i wanted to do the programme, we wanted to make it feel very open, very transparent, maybe a bit more conversational. you know, we've all lived through many years of politicians who it feels like they've been screaming and shouting at each other. and i think we're trying to make a bit more space to hear arguments. absolutely. absolutely do the core centraljob of the show, which is to ask questions that the audience want answered, to ask questions that

need to be answered. but that's not necessarily done with a kind of 60—minute shouting match on a sunday morning. one of the things you are doing differently is you've got rid of the paper review and some of our contributors don't like that. what's the thinking is that you just don't think the sunday papers are as important? well, i think the sunday papers are so massively important. are still massively important. well, i think the sunday papers are still massively important, of course they are, and i don't really think that we've got rid of the paper review, as it were. so, what we're doing is a bit different. so, we are talking about the newspapers at different points throughout the programme. so, we might refer to the front pages and particular stories at the beginning of the programme, or we might talk about lots of different stories and different treatments of them in one of our longer panel discussions in the middle of the programme. so, what we've done is changed how we talk about the newspapers. we don't have at the very top that sort of ten minutes review and people sitting holding up bits of the newspapers. but they are still very much part of our conversation and part of our discussion. but i think there is also a changing role and a changing media landscape,

because the papers certainly aren't the only place that people get their information on a sunday morning any more. i'm glad you mentioned the panel. mixed views from our contributors on that decision. there was, of course, the controversy over having the comedianjoe lycett on the first programme, what have the comedianjoe lycett on the first programme. what have you and the team learnt from the reaction to his sarcastic comments about liz truss? one of the things that me and the programme editor and the team wanted to do in the show is to try and open up our conversations a bit more. and maybe that might mean hearing new voices, hearing people who haven't been traditionally part of the political conversation. and the other reason to bring the panel in is to bring other expertise, to bring other reactions. and i think also to try to help the audience sometimes make sense of what they've just heard. and one of the things people may have noticed is that the main interview in the show, we're tending to do that

at the beginning of the programme rather than waiting to the end. and that means then there's more time to digest, to chew over what you've heard, to think about it in different ways, and to to think about what it might mean. i mean, i know you'll know that on that one of the biggest enemies for any political broadcaster is the clock. and if you have the main interview at the very end of the programme and you're running out of time, i think sometimes the audience — and i knew this as a viewer myself — you're left kind of wanting more, but also thinking, "oh, what did ijust hear?" or, "itjust cut off the best bit. what was that all about?" so, one of the reasons for having the panel is go, what did that all mean? what did you make of that?

and i want the show on a sunday morning, particularly if people are at home, got the coffee on and got the kids running around to think that they've watched the programme and they've got something useful to take away from it. notjust for those people, myself included, who love the political argy bargy that maybe is more traditional. barely a month in, if you already had three former prime ministers, two serving prime ministers — of course, the current prime minister before she took up the job, 2a hours after you had interviewed her, she became conservative party leader. let me ask you the perennial question — why interrupt your guests? our contributors say they'd like to hear more of them, maybe a bit less of you. are you going to interrupt me when i try and answer? they laugh well, here's the thing. we've made a decision actually to make our big interviews. in most cases, they will be a bit longer. so, actually, to answer that direct point, we are trying deliberately in terms of our duration, to give politicians a bit more time to make their arguments. however, when a politician is trying to avoid answering a question

or when they're not answering it directly, it's not the job to sit there and let them keep on doing that repeatedly. you know, if somebody is obviously trying to divert or you say, "what are you going to do about energy bills?" and they start talking about food security. or if you ask a question about the bank of england and they start talking about, you know, something that's off—topic. part of the job as a political interviewer is to try to hold the politician to the question that you've asked them sometimes in order the politician to the question that you've asked them. sometimes, in order to try to get politicians to stay on the topic and to try to get them to answer the question — and i'm afraid, although i'm a very polite person — the only answer is to interrupt them. laura kuenssberg, thank you very much. my thanks to laura and to all of you who contacted us this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc bbc news, do email newswatch at bbc.co.uk or you can find us bbc news, do email newswatch at bbc.co.uk, or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc.

you can call us on 037010676. do have a look at us on the web. bbc.co.uk/newswatch. samira will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again at the same time next week from me. again at the same time next week. from me, goodbye. friday brought us a pretty wet, windy and unsettled end to the working week. it's been a fairly unsettled week, actually. this was the picture in perth a little bit earlier on in the day — some big shower clouds around there. and as we head through the rest of this evening and overnight, the main band of rain will start to clear away, the winds will ease a little bit, but we'll still have some blustery showers continuing through the night, too. so, here's the weather front that brought that rain on friday. that's just going to be lingering in the southeast over the next few hours, and then further showers just piling in across northern and western parts of the uk. but fewer showers further south, and towards eastern areas, mostly dry with long, clear spells. once that rain clears away, we should have clearer and drier conditions towards the southeast

of england, for instance. but temperatures for many of us remaining in double figures, just dropping into single figures for parts of northern england and eastern scotland, for instance, as well. now, through the day tomorrow, more sunshine than we've seen today and drier conditions, but not dry everywhere, because we've still got a westerly breeze driving in a few showers to northern ireland and scotland. could be the odd heavy one, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder in the far northwest. just the odd one for western parts of england and wales, but drier in the east and winds not as strong as recent days, but still gusts of perhaps 30—a0 mph. so, a noticeable breeze coming in from the west. temperatures a touch warmer than in recent days, 19 or possibly 20 in the southeast, but typically the mid to high teens further north. into the evening and overnight, as we head through into sunday now, still some showers in the far northwest. clear skies elsewhere, but then this next area of cloud and rain moves in from the southwest to start off your sunday morning. so, this feature here is a waving weather front which is going to dominate sunday's weather for some of us in the south. some uncertainty about just how far north the wave on that weather front gets, where exactly is going to see the rainfall, but it looks most likely on sunday for parts

of southern england and south wales. and it is, of course, the london marathon sunday, so we could well see a bit of rain. if you're running in the marathon or if you're going to spectate, you may well just want to be prepared for a little bit of wet weather around. but for the rest of the uk, a lot of dry weather. a few showers across the far northwest, and it looks like rain slowly clears from the south during sunday afternoon. so, in the sunny spells, top temperatures between about 14—17 degrees for most of us on sunday. then it looks like higher pressure holds on as we head through monday and tuesday towards the south. drier and warmer weather on the way. more showers to come, though, further north. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a concert in moscow's red square, as president putin tells the invited audience, "victory will be ours." it comes after a lavish signing ceremony at the kremlin, where russia formally annexed 15% of ukrainian territory. translation: people | in luhansk and donetsk, kherson and zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens forever. nato says it's the most serious escalation of the conflict since russia invaded ukraine in february. also on the programme... hurricane ian makes landfall in south carolina after it hit

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