of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins which — despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand — upsetjanet georghiou... janet cra btree agreed... we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics

coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output "incomprehensible", and some of the terminology used "mystifying". simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics — but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday: clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction. i'm wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website, on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is "rishi sunak�*s group of senior ministers" and that

inflation is "the rate at which prices are rising". given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman of the conservative party. here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works around here would tell you that lee anderson is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the users of food banks, as you heard there, to remarks about the england football team taking the knee. references like those to "controversy", and the description of mr anderson

as "controversial", caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted. .. but russ jones thought that was... controversial or not, in an interview on wednesday on bbc radio nottinghamshire, lee anderson tried to turn the tables on presenter verity cowley. there is a worry by some that you might be a bit dishonest. no, not really.

i mean, have you ever told a lie, verity? but we're not here to talk about me. we're here to talk about you. no, no, and i asked the question, have you ever told a lie? the mp asked the presenter ten times if she'd ever told a lie and ended by asking for the whole ten—minute interview to be played in full, as he said he didn't trust the bbc to cut it down fairly — or else not to be played at all. radio nottingham did run the whole interview, which also appeared on the bbc website, to the approval of andy brockman. .. overnight on sunday, the bbc news channel reported on the grammys, the music industry's annual awards ceremony in los angeles. here's a headline they ran in one of their half—hour bulletins in the small hours of monday morning.

and beyonce�*s big night: she gets ever closer to winning the most grammy awards of all time. that picture, of course, was not of the singer beyonce but the actress viola davis, another award winner that night. this isn't the first time the bbc has mixed up two famous people of colour, and mary anderson commented... bbc news posted this statement... now, the uk has always been much slower than the united states in opening up its legal process to journalists and camera crews. things are changing, though, with limited filming

in crown courts permitted since 2020, as it is in the supreme court and the court of appeal. and last week saw the start of a pilot scheme, whereby some reporting will be allowed of what happens in family courts — a part of the justice system which involves at least half a million people a year. one of the journalists who's going to be taking advantage of the new scheme is the bbc�*s sanchia berg, who's been reporting extensively on the family courts over her career. shejoins me now. thank you so much for coming on newswatch. why is it so important forjournalists to report from family courts? judges say that we no longer have the death penalty in england and wales, the family courts retain the most drastic powers of any courts because they can take action to separate a child forever from its birth family, from its parents through adoption, they can also make a serious impact on family lives by taking children away, putting them into care. and they also make these critical decisions

in what are called private law cases, where parents are separating, they cannot agree on where the children should go, and the court will decide where they go. as you said, they involve hundreds of thousands of people every year, but until now, reporters haven't been allowed in. so there has been very little scrutiny. occasionally very exceptionally we've been able to report cases, but this pilot in three quart centuries, leeds, cardiff and carlisle should allow us to follow cases in an entirely different way. of course, the other big thing about these family courts and care cases particularly is there have been a number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines, and thinking about star hobson, for example, and child protection is something that we should be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths, are actually in this pilot. so will there be stories

you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes. and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step—by—step. we can report what happens in court. we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers, the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families, describe what happens in court. all of these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the children's court advisory service who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility,

and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it is different. but certainly when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know there will not be any audio orfilming in these family courts, but more generally is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there is now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases, which is quite significant, and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking to try to make it easierfor the press to do their work. i think certainly within the judiciary there is a sense that open justice is a really important principle, thatjustice has to be seen to be done as well as being done. as i'm sure you've discussed on this programme, the other side of the coin is that a lot of media organisations lack the staff and resources to send in court reporters, no matter how much the judiciary might

like to see them in there. thank you so much. 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... or you can find us on twitter... you can call us on... and do have a look at our website. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello. well, it certainly doesn't look like you'll need your umbrella this weekend, but then again, it's not going to be all that sunny. in fact, often cloudy, both on saturday and sunday. but i am confident a few sunny spells will develop during the course of the day. but take a look at that shield of cloud spreading off

the atlantic right across the uk. this is also quite mild air, which is riding around an area of high pressure that has established itself across a large chunk of europe. but around this high we've got that wind blowing and it's pushing in the milder atmosphere towards us. so this air mass, mild air mass will be in place across the uk through the course of the weekend and into the week ahead. no frost first thing in the morning on saturday. in fact, farfrom it. temperatures typically around about five, six, seven degrees celsius, perhaps even higher than that in one or two spots. but the cloud will be thick, in fact, really overcast in some areas first thing. but then the clouds will break. i suspect the best sunny spells will be to the east of scotland, the east of the pennines. but in one or two other areas, the sun will poke through the clouds as well. 13 degrees, so actually relatively mild even for the time of the year. the high pressure is still with us on sunday, although it is shifting a little bit towards more central parts of europe.

but the weather isn't going to be changing an awful lot. however, the breaks in the cloud may appear in different places on sunday, and that's actually really difficult to forecast. it does look as though it's also going to be just a shade cooler, not that you'll notice — around about ten or 11 degrees celsius. now that high pressure will continue to drift a little bit further towards the east into monday. that does mean it opens the gates to low pressure and also weather fronts, but they will be kept at bay even on monday. and the weather isn't expected to change — again around nine, 10 to 12 degrees celsius. as we head towards tuesday and wednesday, with that high pressure continuing to shift further east, these weather fronts will eventually win and arrive. and we think that around wednesday, wednesday night into thursday, that rain will arrive. so until around about tuesday, possibly wednesday for some of us, the weather's looking dry. but after that, the second half of the week is looking cloudy with rain at times. enjoy the bright weather. bye—bye.

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