they were gone. under a flattened building in adiyaman, a child, cries. "fatima", a man shouts into a hole in the debris. we don't know what happened to her. here there are no emergency services. nobody can help. how do you feel about what's happened to your country? i armageddon. behind this blanket, an arm reveals a body. slowly, carefully it's uncovered. and then, the moment of realisation. he cries

a father lost. we mentioned last week that there have been plaudits for the bbc teams on the ground, but some viewers had reservations about the coverage. two of them recorded their thoughts for us on camera. first, john carberry reacting to that last clip we saw, and then clive kelly. during the filming of the results of the turkish earthquake on the early evening news of 8 february, a man discovered the remains of his of his whole family crushed into the rubble. the camera closed in on him and continued to film. this was a prolonged and disgraceful intrusion on private misery, and whoever sanctioned it should be ashamed of themselves. we don't need to be so close to what's happening on the ground to know how bad it is. so please, please, bbc, can you act with some dignity? notjoin the race, as some news

companies are trying to do, which is to be as closest to the diggers, as closest to the bodies, as closest to the rubble as possible. but give some space, give some dignity. these individuals, these families are just having enough without our imposition into their lives as well. linda hilson also expressed her concern to us. well, let's talk to richard burgess, who's the director of news content for bbc news. richard, can you see why some viewers feel that the coverage has been intrusive? i think some of the coverage has been really difficult to watch. and, you know, of course,

it's really important that we respect the dignity and the privacy of those involved. but at the same time, it's really important that our reporters faithfully show what they are witnessing on the ground. and it's worth saying that, you know, people on the ground have been really grateful to our teams for bringing news of this appalling tragedy to to a wider audience. can we talk about a specific example, which is the father who has just found out that his whole family have been killed ? that moment when people first receive news of death, many viewers felt could be seen as voyeuristic. well, we think really hard about all the sequences we show. and obviously, you know, when you're watching a television package, you don't see the bits that we haven't shown. you don't see the conversations that we have away from the cameras. we don't see when we withdraw at the request of people on the ground. i think that incident really, truly showed the full horror

of this crisis. and as i said, you know, that has been an important part of ourjob as reporters on the ground. some viewers concerned about this coverage would say they don't think the bbc would everfilm british families caught in a disaster in the uk this way. they've got a point, haven't they? no, i don't think so. i think when we have covered disasters in the uk, we have also adopted the same principles — which is showing respect, respecting privacy, but also being faithful to what we're witnessing, showing what's actually going on. and it's not ourjob to sanitise the reality of situations that sometimes, frankly, are really terrible. another aspect of this is interviews, very distressing interviews — microphones being thrust into people's faces, asking them how they feel. they may have given consent at the time, but given their trauma, is it really informed consent,

and should the bbc really be broadcasting that? well, we've got very experienced people on the ground who are used to dealing with these situations, and have done many interviews over many years. and they make those types of decisions over whether somebody can give informed consent or not. and as i said, i say again, you don't see the instances where we decide not to do things, when we step away. there are many instances like that — we are really, really careful. but at the same time, as i said before, you know, those people on the ground have really welcomed our coverage. they want this story told to as broad an audience as possible. what about concerns about potentially affecting rescue efforts? certainly in the days past, i heard an example of a reporter saying, "0h, they want us to be really quiet "because they think they can hear someone," but was then continuing to talk. no, we've been — that must

have been laura bicker, who i also heard the following day explaining how, despite her continuing to talk really quietly, she was not interfering with any of the rescue efforts. and, of course, we would, you know, that would be our absolute priority, that we would not want to jeopardise anybody�*s safety or, of course, jeopardise any of the potential rescue efforts. one of the other questions viewers will have after a terrible disaster like this is how long the bbc chooses to stay in the region, and stay on this story. i think it's really important that we continue to stay on the story. we absolutely are committed to doing that. you know, there is a humanitarian crisis following these earthquakes. we need to continue to tell those stories. we need to continue to bring that story to as wide a possible audience. there'll obviously be concern about the welfare ofjournalists, too, seeing some of this traumatic stuff — but then thinking about local people. there was the amazing story on the first day of that taxi driver who helped a reporterfilm her report. what support are you giving to turkish people who are working with the bbc, as well as your own teams? well, we have systems that

are designed over many years for how we support our staff and those local staff that work with us. i think that was anna foster, who was one of the first journalists to get to the epicentre of the earthquake, and she did that alone with her taxi driver. and i think, you know, as she said, he was part of our team, and we treat them absolutely as such. richard burgess, thank you very much. thank you. the big political news of the week was the surprise announcement by nicola sturgeon that she would be standing down from her post as first minister of scotland. for wednesday's news at six, presenter reeta chakrabarti was in edinburgh, speaking to the bbc�*s scotland editorjames cook... and james joins me now. a resignation completely out of the blue, this — what are we to make of it? ..and political editor chris mason.

a huge political figure, as you say, reeta, here in scotland, but a big political figure on the uk stage as well. those two were still on duty at 10:00, by which time huw edwards was there to present. we're live in edinburgh, where the first minister, nicola sturgeon, has taken everyone by surprise by announcing her resignation. this gave rise to a familiar complaint to regular newswatch viewers, expressed here by geoff hardy. interestingly, we did discuss this back in the past with a bbc manager, who said on newswatch that they would be rethinking some of these kinds of deployments. do let us know what you think.

the storm surrounding the bbc chairman richard sharp, which we discussed on the programme a couple of weeks ago, grew this week after a committee of mps found he had made significant errors ofjudgment in failing to divulge his role in facilitating a loan for borisjohnson while he was applying for the bbcjob. mr sharp insisted he had acted in good faith to ensure that the rules were followed, and that he got the job on merit. but some people are concerned about the knock—on effect of this row on bbcjournalism. here's davy g. drjeff ba rtley agreed. finally on tuesday, a number of bbc outlets reported that the soft drink lilt

is going to be rebranded next week as fanta pineapple and grapefruit. not for the first time, there were accusations thatjournalists had fallen for a pr stunt, confusing a marketing ploy with actual news. s werner e—mailed... 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... and do have a look at previous interviews on our website. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye.

hello. storm 0tto was the dominant force in our weather on friday. it brought some very strong and gusty winds to the northern half of the uk. a gust of 83 miles power on the coast of aberdeenshire. but further south, it was all about mild weather. temperatures at pershore in worcestershire got above 17 celsius, unusually mild for this point in february. that curl of cloud there on the satellite picture, that was storm 0tto, now quickly moving away eastwards. this is our next weather system that's been bringing some rain and indeed some snow in places through the night. ice likely to affect some parts of scotland as we start saturday morning. but much of the rain pulling away eastwards. a lot of dry weather through the day on saturday. this band of cloud and some patchy rain for a time in the south of england, that will tend to clear. we will also keep this band of cloud and some patchy rain in central and southern parts

of scotland and into north—east england. but elsewhere, some spells of sunshine, just the odd rogue shower. 6 or 7 degrees in northern scotland, 15 in the east of england. some of this rain turning a little heavierfor a time in eastern scotland and north east england before clearing on saturday night. then a drier interlude before more rain starts to push in to the western side of scotland on sunday morning. a mild start to sunday for the majority. so, that rain in the west of scotland comes courtesy of this frontal system approaching from the atlantic. further south, high pressure keeping things mainly fine and dry, so split fortunes for the second half of the weekend. cloud and some rain across scotland, the rain heaviest over hills in the north—west. a few spots of rain from the cloud into northern ireland, the far north of england. but further south, some high cloud turning the sunshine hazy, but essentially, a fine—looking day. quite breezy, in fact, quite windy in the north, and again, it's going to be mild — 10 degrees there for aberdeen, 13 the top temperature in london, and it stays mild into the start of the new week.

we see frontal systems just running across the far north of the uk, high pressure to the south of us, often quite breezy, but we will be within this wedge of very mild air. so, some unusually high temperatures for the start of the new week likely to be up to 15 or 16 degrees in parts of the south. later in the week, though, it will turn a bit more unsettled and perhaps a little bit chillier as well.

this is bbc news. i'm anjana gadgil. our top stories — five former police officers in the us plead not guilty to murdering the young black man tyre nichols last month. his mother demands justice. i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven't done that yet. they couldn't even do that today. more people have been pulled from the rubble in turkey but the government is facing growing criticism over the shoddy construction of buildings. in the civilised countries, earthquakes happen and people don't die. unfortunately in turkey, these kind of earthquakes happen every ten years and people die and they say it is a destiny. no, it is not.

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