it's not the first time justin rowlatt has caused some controversy by wearing jeans on television. he did so in the news at ten studio injuly and tweeted afterwards... it's clear from what we heard this week that some viewers do consider the wearing of denim on screen to be a disgraceful lapse in standards. but, if you think it's a refreshing, new, casual approach, do let us know. the other big international event of the week was the mid—term elections in the united states. widely covered by different bbc outlets and throughout tuesday night and wednesday morning, the special programme on the news channel. its election night across america.

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russia announced on wednesday that it was pulling out of kherson but the previous night a panorama special had focused on another ukrainian city, mariupol, which was bombarded from the start of the war in march until it fell to the russians in may.

the hour that followed was harrowing and powerful, and was applauded by viewers such as richard prescott who called it, and fran carrillo wondered... well, let's talk to the panorama correspondent hilary anderson who is responsible for that film. hilary, it was a very powerful piece of television, there was no reporter or narration on that film at all. how and why did you decide to structure things that way? well, this was a very carefully thought through and deliberate decision right from the beginning of the project because the whole idea was to tell the story of mariupol and the war inside out, instead of from the outside in. because, every day, we watch coverage of tanks, of reporters talking, narrating with clips of individuals but sort of...

looking at the war from the outside. what this film did was to go not just to the people to allow them to tell their story but to go right inside their heads and to tell the story of the war in an experiential way. for that to be completely authentic, we felt, our team felt, that they needed to speak in their own languages and that it would be better not to have any narration and just, lets listen to the voices of the people who lived through the siege of mariupol. as we know, it has been pretty much impossible to get access to mariupol for months now. how did you find the people involved? and, how did you find the footage to tell the story? the project began, i started working on it in march when the siege was in full swing, and, i started out trying to get a phone call through to people in mariupol which was virtually, but not completely impossible at the time. i soon discovered that

people were not only getting out but you could zoom them, so we then started to track down people who had fled the city and listen to them. and listen to their stories. then there was a question of footage, a huge problem, because a lot of people or almost everyone, had deleted everything they had shot on their phone. russians were taking people's phones as they came out so it was a very real problem. people were scared and the word went round, delete everything if you are going to try to get out of mariupol. so it was very difficult to get footage, but we did that by using software to retrieve deleted data from people's phones and also, not everyone deleted everything they thought they had so there was footage and we were able to use that. this is very much a ukrainian citizen's point of view, the whole

film, can i ask how you squared that with the important notion of bbc impartiality? due impartiality, as you know, is a concept that applies across bbc coverage. this film is only one piece of our overall coverage. what we did was a very authentic piece ofjournalism in circumstances where we couldn't — eyewitnessjournalism — where we independentjournalists couldn't operate in mariupol as you know which is now under russian control and there is a lot of fear, people are even afraid to speak to western journalists openly, but we were not trying to do was litigate. we were not trying to do a film which said, is this a war crime? who did it? who was responsible? we didn't do any of that in this film. this documentary is about people's experiences and we set out to relay their experiences and that's what we did. as we know, the result is quite distressing and powerful to watch. you, yourself have worked in a number of war zones including afghanistan over the years. can i ask how it has affected you, dealing with this trauma ? well, if you spend six months talking to people who have lived through mariupol and who

have lost family members under the rubble and been extracted from the rubble themselves, and have nightmares about seeing young childen... honestly, it's. .. this isn't about the journalists who cover it. it's distressing to hear their stories, yes, i have cried a lot over the last six months, but this isn't about me or our team. we are the conduit for people who went through this to tell their stories and their stories are incredibly powerful because they wanted so badly to tell their stories because they wanted the world to know. and, because, the particular people we spoke to really opened up at a deep level about their whole lives and about what this wall really means. and what it really means to live through the decimation of your city. hilary anderson, thank you so much. finally, this week saw the death of the pioneering election analyst sir david butler. one of the many ideas

he had for transforming the bbc�*s coverage of politics was a pendulum device. shown in action here on general election night in 1959. and back in the studio here, david butler wishes to give a short session in swing. i think it was three and a half hours ago that he said labour needed this swing at 2% or more to win the election. well, at the beginning of the night, it was all over the place, one to the other way made us think we might hesitate. but after the results of settled down, and it has been staying steady now. the average swing over the whole country, 1.3% improvement of conservative position over labour. the swingometer has become a little bit more high—tech in the years since, as used by the likes of peter snow and jeremy vine. but the ground—breaking principle remains the same. among the tributes paid to sir david butler was this from the bbc�*s current election analyst, sirjohn curtis.

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its way southwards and then bending northwards again. this dress dream passion continues to allow us to tap into this really warm air coming up from the south moving northwards across the uk. we do have a frontal system in the picture, it is a warm front pushing its way northwards across northern ireland and scotland taking some rain whether it but that rain increasingly becoming confined to the far north—west. high pressure across the new content so a lot of dry weather this weekend. not going to be quite as when as it has been certainly through saturday the wind is lighter than we have been used to and any early fog will give way to some spells of sunshine across england and wales, northern ireland and much of scotland with that rain retreating offered. not as mild as it has been in the finals but still 13-14 , 17 for it has been in the finals but still 13—14, 17 for cardiff, it has been in the finals but still 13—11“ 17 for cardiff, 18 to london. as we like to sunday, high pressure hold firm across continental europe, the system does try to work in from the west, head of that the breeze will start to strengthen. as we start the day with

light winds, we are likely to see some areas of low cloud and fog across parts of east wales, the midlands, eastern parts of england. could be quite make you put in some parts of scotland as well. sunny spells, another mall day, we will see cloud and rain into northern ireland later on today and that will continue to push its way eastwards on monday, weakening as it goes but could be some quite heavy rain moving across the north of scotland. by moving across the north of scotland. by disguise following behind but some slightly cooler air. these temperatures are still above the seasonal norm but not feeling quite as mild as it has been. the other side of the atlantic to see the swell of cloud, this is x hurricane nicole, the remnants drifting across the eastern sides of the us, the stripe of clouds pushing in from the west, this is a frontal system which will essentially subsume our past her again, these weather systems combining a moving across the atlantic as an area of no pressure. with that injection of tropical

moisture this weather system it could bring quite a lot of rain as it passes close to the uk through the middle of the week. on tuesday, we will see this band of heavy rain moving actually quite slowly eastwards. quite a wet day for many of us on tuesday, quite breezy as well, particularly ahead of the rain band. may be brighter skies returning from the west. can are still in double digits but not as mad as it has been, 10—14. the remnants of that weather systems are likely to be affecting parts of northern scotland on wednesday, elsewhere, some sunny spells, could well see some heavy showers returning from the south—west. 9 degrees for newcastle, 13 degrees for cardiff and for plymouth. there is temperatures just beginning to debt. later next week, this is the jet stream pattern, no longer digging all the way south instead racing across the atlantic, bringing bouts of wind and rain. bringing areas of low pressure and with the jet stream to the south of the uk, it is going to feel a little cooler. these temperatures as we had through

into next weekend, they are much lower than what we have right now. nothing exceptionalfor lower than what we have right now. nothing exceptional for the time of year. closer to what we would expect for november and there will be some wind and rain at times.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. russian troops withdraw from the city of kherson and the ukrainian flag flies again in what is a hugely consequential moment in the nine month war. translation: today is a historic da . we translation: today is a historic day- we are _ translation: today is a historic day. we are taking _ translation: today is a historic day. we are taking back - translation: today is a historic day. we are taking back the - translation: today is a historic| day. we are taking back the south translation: today is a historic. day. we are taking back the south of the country. we are taking back kherson. recession looms in the uk as the economy shrinks — driven in part by steep declines in manufacturing. the government warns of a tough road ahead. president biden says it's the duty and responsibility of every nation to act on climate, as he address the cop27 summit.