she can run away from this conference, but not the immense challenges she confronts. john smith took exception to what he saw there on news bulletins later in the day. and a viewer called doreen had a different objection. susan also contacted us about that latter sequence and recorded this video for us.

my complaint is triggered by some nasty, unkind, snide reporting i heard from chris mason at the tory conference. liz truss was getting into a car, and he said words to the effect of, "liz truss can't leave quickly enough." maybe she had an appointment or a room to go to or work to get on with, whatever. she's probably sick of being caught and verbally mugged by reporters. do they do positive or only one—upmanship? we put that point to bbc news, and they told us... the thinking behind the mini budget a fortnight ago and the economic philosophies of the prime minister and her chancellor, kwasi kwarteng, dubbed trussanomics, have been developed over recent years by a number of individuals and organisations, including the institute of economic affairs. and staff from the iea have appeared on several bbc outlets over the past two weeks. right, let's talk to a panel of experts, the head of public policy at the free—market think tank, the institute for economic affairs, matthew lesh is here. matthew, your organisation

enthusiastically welcomed the mini budget. how do you feel today? we're joined now by andy mair from the free—market think tank the institute for economic affairs. joining us now is len shackleton, editorial and research fellow at the . institute of economic affairs and professor of economics ati the university of buckingham. as you can see, the iea is normally, but not always labelled on air as a free—market think tank. it has links with the conservative party. the chancellor spoke at its fringe event at the party conference this week, but it says it's independent of any political party or group. its website doesn't say specifically who funds it, but three tobacco companies have confirmed they provide it with financial support. we've had complaints over the years from viewers who do not think its staff are suitable guests for bbc news programmes. paul slade is the latest.

as for how they are labelled when introduced... and artemisigs argued... we wanted to discuss the practice of interviewing guests from the iea and other think tanks on bbc news, but nobody was available to speak to us. instead we were given this statement.

now it's three weeks since the death of a young woman sparked widespread protests in iran. mahsa amini died after being detained by morality police for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab or headscarf. the police have denied she was mistreated and say she died of a heart attack. but it's clear that many iranians don't believe that. as rana rahimpour reported on wednesday's news at ten. pupils are burning the pictures of the leader of the islamic revolution, chasing away pro—government school officials.

chanting and showing their middle finger to the ideology that has oppressed them for years. the bbc and independent media are not allowed to report from iran, butjournalists here across bbc persian and bbc monitoring have been gathering videos from social media and speaking to witnesses, tracking where protests broke out in the first few weeks. another bbc persian journalist who's been covering this story is with me now. thank you so much for coming in. can i ask first how easy it's been for you and your colleagues to get accurate information about what's going on inside iran? it's definitely not easy. one of the main things that we rely on nowadays is social media, because bbc persian is definitely not present in iran, so we rely on social media. one of the ways, for example, to find... i personally find, for example, nika shah karimi, who was killed during the protest, i managed to find some of her relatives. and the way i did it, for example, was that going to her social media accounts or her relatives' and then seeing who's

got the same last name, trying to contact these people. some of them reply, some of them don't. and then you need to reassure them that their safety comes first, that we are not going to, you know, pose... like put their safety and security at risk in any way. so then that you start talking to people and trying to gather information and cross—check the information with other sources that you find. you've raised two important questions there. so, one is the fact that there's a lot of media that's emerging through social media and its so—called user generated content. how can you verify it? so, there are many different ways to do it, but one of the main things that our team uses is through google map. for example, there's a protest on the street and you see in the corner there is a bank or there's a shop or you can see it, the name of the street. so that's how they try to check all these single elements, frame by frame sometimes, to be able to geolocate the place and then they realise it's correct. we've got our ways through google map and also the appearance and the weather. for example, if they're wearing

a mask, if they're not wearing... for example, these protests, one of the characteristics of these protests is scarves. so they're taking out their scarves, they're burning their scarves. so we know that this is for this protest and not for the previous ones. right. and you also mentioned the safety of people who are contacting you. and i wonder how you're able to establish what you can put out without risking their safety with inside iran. i can give you a good example. like, for example, one of the sources i was talking to was arrested by iranian security forces. so when, and one of the things that iranian security forces do, the first thing they do when they arrest someone is that they gain access to their social media account. so, after she was released, she contacted me again. but how could i be sure that this is not an agent that is talking to me and it's her? so i asked her... she couldn't make any phone calls or that, so i asked her to send me a voice message so i can be sure that it's her. and these are some of the ways that we manage to check if this is the right person we are talking to and then cross—check it with

other sources as well. now, we've mentioned that bbc persian is sort of blocked. certainlyjournalists can't work inside iran. what sense do you have of how far your broadcasts, your output are getting through to the iranian people and how they're being received? one of the ways is checking our social media, for example, especially on instagram, because instagram is one of the only social media platforms that is not banned in iran. i believe that we have the most followers among all the persian—speaking media. we have got the most followers on instagram, over 18 million. the iranian regime have accused western governments and western media outlets of exaggerating the scale of the protests. and you'll remember that the 2009 green movement was also very big on social media, but it was put down. is there a risk that you could be accused of hyping the scale of this? at the moment, we are actually being accused from both sides, from the iranian regime of hyping up the protests, which i don't think is accurate because we are just publishing

what we are receiving and trying to make sure if it's correct, contacting people in the in the area and talking to them directly. this is one thing. and on the other hand, we are also being accused of discouraging people from taking part in protests because, for example, we put out there a video or a footage that we received of police officers chasing or even beating protesters. we need to reflect that because that is police brutality. we need to show it. this is a document, that's ourjob to do it. but some opposition find it, you know, that we are discouraging protesters from going out on the streets. newswatch viewers will probably remember that we've discussed the harassment of bbc persian journalists and their families in iran over recent years. can i ask what the situation is now? it has changed, but not for the better, because we are being harassed by the iranian regime definitely, but also from the opposition now because they think because of our impartiality, they think, for example, this in this moment in time,

we should not be impartial. it used to be mostly online, for example, especially from the opposition. it used to be online harassment, but it is turning into real—life harassment. the other day, one of our colleagues received a death threat. they put out $5000 for anyone who kills him in london, you know, things like that. but also in real life, they are being attacked physically sometimes. a worrying time. thank you so much for coming on newswatch, and all the best to you and your colleagues. thank you. 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, eemail newswatch@bbc.co.uk or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc. you can call us on 0370 010 6676. and do you have a look at our website for previous interviews. 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. hello there. brief respite on the horizon across the whole country to start the weekend, thanks to a ridge of high pressure building in. that'll settle things down to bring quite a lot of sunshine around and lighter winds on saturday for all areas. but it will be turning wet and windy again on sunday across scotland and northern ireland, tending to stay drier further south. so here it is, our area of high pressure, building in for saturday. fewer isobars on the charts as well, so winds will be lighter, as well. so it's a chilly start to saturday, maybe a little bit of mist and fog across southern areas, but plenty of sunshine around. however, the far north and west of scotland will tend to remain breezy. more cloud here with a few showers at times, and there could be the odd shower, northern ireland, north—west england too, but most places dry — temperatures reaching 14—17 celsius. feeling quite pleasant in the south, with lighter winds. through saturday night,

conditions start to deteriorate across the north and west of the country. winds pick up, cloud starts to push in, so temperatures recover, but central—southern eastern england could be really quite chilly by sunday morning with some mist and fog in places. well, the temperatures recover across the north and the west because we've got this area of low pressure sweeping into scotland and northern ireland throughout the day on sunday. so it turns much wetter here, winds picking up to gale force, maybe even severe gale force and exposure. few showers getting into the north and west of england, and into north—west wales at times, too. but for the rest of england, it'll stay dry with plenty of sunshine after that chilly start. a breezier day in the south, but very windy across the north and west with gales or even severe gales, like i mentioned. those temperatures ranging from around the mid teens in the north, again up to 17—18 celsius in the south. that band of rain spreads across all areas during sunday night, but into monday, it will eventually clear away from the south—east, and then we're into another ridge of high pressure. so, many places will be dry across central and southern areas on monday. a bit more of a breeze, though, across scotland, perhaps northern ireland,

the far north—west of england, one or two showers here. we've got the low teens here, quite a cool feel — in fact, up to 16 or 17 celsius further south. the area of high pressure continues to bring fine weather through tuesday and wednesday in the south—east. but areas of low pressure start to turn things more unsettled again in the north and the west as we move deeper into the week. so, i think by the end of the week, all areas will be turning cooler and more unsettled with wet and windy weather spreading in at times.

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