and on the party bus, english confidence was flowing. # we're gonna score one more than you! england! as i'm talking to you, two crucial world cup| matches are kicking off. the us and iran are old foes on the world stage, - and they are playing each other, vying for one of the _ spots in the last 16. the other two teams with a very close interest in that _ are england and wales. if we do win, we'll be on... we might be on to the knockout rounds, and that will make history for all of wales. so, come on! come on! i think we knew how the first half was going to go, but then we knew wales would really have to go for it, the game would open up. we could then use our players with pace — the likes of rashford and foden. you know, it was...

you know, from there on, i was never in any doubt. well, here's what some of you had to say about all that, starting with a sarcastic ian frost last friday. stephen russell contacted us later that evening about the news at ten. on tuesday evening at 7pm alan driver tuned into outside source, which we saw a clip of there. kath eyre was interested in the world cup, but wrote...

meanwhile, mike willmont had another concern. well, let's address some of those reactions with richard burgess, who's the director of news content for bbc news. i have to say, richard, i feel we have spoken about this issue before — possibly more than once. what can you say to viewers who feel there's just too much coverage of the men's world cup on the news, and it displaces the most

important stories? well, look, i know there is a section of the audience that does feel this way, because, as you rightly say, samira, we've had this conversation before. look, the world cup is a major event, it's a global event watched by millions with a real commercial value to it. and that forms part of the news, and we have to reflect that. you know, when a third of the nation is following the england—wales match, that is the news of that day and so we reflect the match and also the activity around the match. and i think that's the right thing for the news to do, while accepting, you know, there are other stories in the world, as well. so, following up on that, 7pm on tuesday evening, there were matches on bbc one and bbc two at the same time. so viewers turn on the news channel looking, clearly, for something else — possibly news. and what do they get? they get chat about the matches. it is a bit of a bizarre decision. well, look, i can see where you're coming from with that one, absolutely, and i think we do need to be careful when there's football on bbc one and bbc two that we offer something alternative on the news

channel. but the news channel is going to reflect the world cup and what's going on around the world cup and the stories around the world cup. and we also know that audiences do come to the news sometimes for a summary of what's happened. so they don't want to watch the whole match, but they do want to find out what the news is around the world cup. but you know what the point is that viewers are making. so we also had a lot of complaints last week about half the bulletins being taken up with pre—match build—up. now, that can't be news if nothing's happened yet — not to the extent it runs. well, i think... we've got a news environment at the moment which is quite gloomy at times, i would say, so i am quite unapologetic about us trying to reflect some of the joy in the nation and the excitement in the nation building up to a big football match, and that's exactly what we were doing. 0k. speaking ofjoy... he laughs. it's the tone that some viewers find problematic — a bitjingoistic about national teams, all these intoxicated fans being interviewed, rather than reporting objectively. oh, no, i think we do report objectively, absolutely. we've got highly experienced kind

of sports news correspondents and a sports editor in dan roan, you know, who will analyse the sport itself. but at the same time, that reporting will reflect some of the joy and some of the support that's going on around this world cup. i have noticed in recent weeks that the world service in particular, and some domestic radio bulletins, now refer to "the men's world cup" at first reference. but very often it's referred to just as "the world cup". given it was the women's team who won the euros, is it time to have consistency about how you describe the men's and women's tournaments? at first reference. yes, it could be. i mean, we do tend to refer to women's sport as "the women's football team" and often just the men's football team as "the football team", as it were, so it's probably one where we do need a greater amount of consistency. i'd accept that. excellent, glad to hear it. now, there's been a lot of criticism of the bbc, as we've established — very extensive coverage of the tournament focusing on qatar's human rights record.

when you've covered, say, the olympics in beijing, the previous men's world cup in russia without such an emphasis, is it hypocritical? no, i think we did have an emphasis on those issues in russia and in china, but i don't deny that it has been high up the agenda with qatar. i mean, it's partly because the world cup is being played there, and that has put an immense attention on those issues. you know, and some of those issues are directly related to the world cup — if you think about migrant workers dying in the construction of some of the stadia. and also some of the other issues, like lgbt rights, has been really put on the agenda by the players themselves and the supporters. so i think it's right that we've covered those. 0k. will the bbc take away some of the comments, what newswatch viewers have said about too much football, getting too big a proportion — not any mention, but too big a proportion — of news bulletins.

he stammers. of course. you have to make a judgement, bulletin to bulletin, story to story, and i don't think there's a one—size—fits—all with this. and as i said right at the start, samira, we recognise that for some viewers this can be a frustration. but, equally, i don't want to apologise for us covering what is a major event that is of huge interest to millions of people in this country. richard burgess, thank you. for the past two weeks, we've featured complaints about the use of graphs and statistics on bbc news, and this week there was another example. tuesday saw the publication of last year's census, which found that less than half the population of england and wales now identify as christians. the office for national statistics says 46.2% describe themselves as christian in 2021 — a fall from 58% a decade ago. those who said they had no religion increased to 37.2%,

while the number of people identifying as muslim increased by 1.2 million. graham hepburn was watching that and sent us this response. ray bradley had a theory. we put those points to bbc news, and they told us...

finally, although the series attracted millions of viewers on itv, quite a few newswatch viewers will not be mourning the end of "i'm a celebrity... get me out of here!" and, in particular, the mention on news programs of matt hancock's participation in the show. sunday's finale saw the former health secretary finishing third, and that was the headline online — not the victory of ex—england footballerjill scott — at least until it was changed later in the day. adam stockford emailed... gareth waterhouse agreed with that, and recorded this video for us. after watching i'm a celebrity on sunday night, my family and i were delighted thatjill scott won i'm a celebrity. when i went on to the bbc news website on monday morning, however, i was disappointed to see the top

news article not around jill scott winning i'm a celebrity, but around matt hancock — a male politician — coming third. in a world where we need to be championing women's successes, i found it disappointing that the bbc news were showcasing matt hancock coming third over jill scott winning it. 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 — email newswatch@bbc.co.uk. or you can find us on twitter @newswatchbbc. you can call us on 0370 0106 676. and do have a look at previous interviews on our website — 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. there's been quite a bit of fog around over the past few days and it

has felt particularly cold where it stayed grey and misty. this was the scene earlier on here in worcestershire. there has not been as much fog around today. it is lifting, it is actually getting blown away and this weekend we should see a freshening easterly breeze which will make it feel colder and bring in a mixture of sunshine, but also a few showers. there was some sunshine around other parts of uk today, left us with a lovely sunset, for example, croyde bay in devon. we will find some breaks in the clouds developing across more of england and wales, pushing into southeast scotland, as that band of misty low cloud comes across northern ireland and the northwest of scotland, keeping temperatures up here. elsewhere, temperatures won't be far away from freezing. we'll see the easterly breeze bringing in a few more showers towards north sea coasts. heading into tomorrow, we have the cloudy weather in northern ireland that should tend to thin and break a bit. it stays cloudy and damp and north—west scotland, but other parts of scotland will see some sunshine. there will be sunshine at times across england and wales,

a few more showers coming in on that breeze across eastern parts of england and it looks quite cloudy in the afternoon for southeastern parts of england. temperature—wise tomorrow, similar to where they have been for the past couple of day, so around 7 or 8 degrees. we stayed in colder air over the weekend and it's going to get colder as the weekend goes on. that weather front takes rain away from the north—west, a few more isobars on the chart. signs that the winds are picking up a bit. and again, we we'll see some sunshine here and there, but also some showers. probably more showers on sunday, mainly for the northern half of the uk not so many in the south, but there will be a covering of cloud here. for all of us, the breeze will be picking up as well. it is not a strong easterly wind, but it will certainly be noticeable. the air�*s getting colder through sunday, so temperatures around 5—7 . when you factor in that easterly winds, that will be strongest around north sea coasts, then it will feel quite a few degrees colder. however, there's even colder weather to come next week. that easterly breeze that we'll have over that the weekend will be replaced by a northerly wind from tuesday, wednesday onwards, bringing down colder air

down from the north. it will feel colder. yes, there will be sunshine around, but you could see how those temperatures are dropping throughout next week, getting particularly chilly out there, and there will be some wintry showers — looks like northern scotland will be in the firing line.

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