but now on bbc news it's newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.bc news give it right prominence to last weekend's peoples vote march in london? and why did other demonstrations and protests go relatively unreported? first, tuesday's accusation by the daily telegraph and racial harrassment by an unnamed businessman set off a torrent of speculation after the court of appeal issued an injunction preventing the newspaper from revealing that person's identity. when he was named, the bbc news channel reported the fact under the rules of qualified privilege. lord hain has used parliamentary privilege to name retail billionaire sir philip green as the businessman. at the heart of the injunction story covered by the daily telegraph newspaper. lord hain‘s comments have now been widely reported across the media. the bbc cannot confirm the allegations and sir philip green has made no comment. reporter: in a statement, sir philip said he would not comment on what had been said in parliament, but he added:... studio: with the injunction remaining in force, not

thank you for coming to newswatch.t exactly is the policy on giving airtime to climate change deniers now? i think the policy is clear that the science is settled on climate change — it exists, there is no debate around that. so we're not going to create a false balance or a flase equivalence by getting a scientist on and then always getting a denier on. but that doesn't mean that we won't occasionally hear from dissenting voices within this debate, because there's debate beyond the actual science, there's debate around the intensity of climate change and then what to do about climate change. just to be clear — bbc news regularly did have on more climate change deniers in the supposed interests of balance. are you now admitting that you'd got that wrong? no, i think what we're saying is that the science is really clear and that we do not need to get on a denierjust to give some kind of, what we would describe as false equivalence. so the science is clear, we report the science. but there will be occasions where we get

hello and welcome to newswatch with me samira ahmed. bbc news get the right, next to last weekend's peoples will march and london? and why do other demonstrations and protests go relatively unreported. first a torrent of speculation after the court of appeal issued an injunction preventing the newspaper from revealing that person's identity. the bbc news channel reported the fact under the rules of qualified privilege. lord hain has used parliamentary published to name retail billionaire sir philip green as the... lord hain‘s comments have now been widely reported across the media. the bbc cannot confirm the allegations and so philip green has made no comment. reporter: any statements statement so reporter: any statements statement so philip said he would not comment on what had been said in parliament but he added to the extent that it suggested that i have been guilty of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour... studio: with the injunction remaining in force, studio: with the injunction remaining inforce, not studio: with the injunction

newswatch viewers have been concerned for a long time about news coverage around politics that has focusedrsonalities, particularly borisjohnson. they feel it comes at the expense of scrutinising policy ideas. and they feel it is getting worse, can you see why? i think it is a really interesting question and i would like to reassure viewers that actually it is something that we really do think about quite a lot. we have got to be careful not to just be attracted by what we call shiny objects but really focus on why we are focusing so much coverage on one's personal one moment. in the case of borisjohnson, i think you have got to look at what happened in the room on tuesday. there was an enormous amount of interest in his speech. he did fill with over a thousand people supporting him not only that you need to look at who was in the room and i think there were as many as 20 mps, which given the prime minister's opposition in parliament is quite a crucial number in terms of getting her policies through. so it is the consideration. and in the end, he is a very, very popularfigure. the big set

newswatch gets a lot of complaints is that the bbc too often ignores demonstrations.k of the women's pension protested the recent example. they say the bbc is consistently ignoring them. there are a number of factors that will come on how we decide or not to cover a particular march. the fact of a margarine demonstration is not that it is news and it sometimes. but the waspi demonstration, it had to take place on stopped alongside other new stores that day. no one is saying that this affects many millions of people and the campaign is not worthy of coverage. we have covered it in some depth. on that date, it was covered for at least ten minutes. the day before politics live also covered that issue. so not covering administration does not mean you do not think a story is worthy of coverage. actually covering it is not always the most effective way to cover an issue. that particular issue is one we have covered before, and i'm sure we will cover it again. i must stay in the past as a bbc news correspondent myself in the 19905 i regularly got sent out to report on marche

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.ght prominence to last weekend's peoples vote march in london? and why do other demonstrations and protests go relatively unreported? first, a torrent of speculation after the court of appeal issued an injunction preventing the newspaper from revealing that person's identity. when he was named in parliament, the bbc news channel reported the fact under the rules of qualified privilege. lord hain has used parliamentary published to name retail billionaire sir philip green as the businessman at the heart of the story reported in the media. lord hain‘s comments have now been widely reported across the media. the bbc cannot confirm the allegations and so philip green has made no comment. reporter: any statements statement so philip said he would not comment on what had been said in parliament but he added to the extent that it suggested that i have been guilty of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour, i deny the accusations. with the injunction remaining in force, not everyone was happy that

hello and welcome to newswatch. i'm samira ahmed.t of the headlines at this week's conservative party conference but did the bbc do itsjob in covering policy as well as performance. and has the way we have got to talking about politics on the news just got too rude and argumentative? the party conference season is when we expect a leading politicians to set out their big ideas in the full glare of the media spotlight. sometimes though they declined broadcasters invitations to submit themselves to questioning and this week that led to a row. on tuesday, representatives from the bbc, sky, itv, channel 4 and channel five complained in a letter to downing street about what they called the prime minister's lack of availability for television interviews during her pa rty‘s conference. her director of communications replied that she had done 36 interviews during the conference. meanwhile, nick robinson mentioned on the today programme last week that although labour leaders normally appeared on the show during their party conference, they ha

thank you for coming on newswatch.rt with the last issue, a charge often laid against the bbc that when it comes to the royal family, you seem to throw editorial values out of the window? i would reject that. but i expect that you would expect me to say that. i think royal stories find their place in news bulletins, so to take one of the criticisms there, specifically head on, about the news of the pregnancy with the duke and duchess of sussex, yes, it was the lead story on the one o'clock television news, it was also the most widely read story on the news website that stay. if you look at the other stories that were necessarily competing for the top of that bulletin at one o'clock, our audience is quite different to six o'clock and ten o'clock. i think it was still the right story, it was a story that broke over the morning, it developed and you have reaction through the day. it didn't develop in the sense that it was pregnant and everyone knew it. we have reaction and everybody responded to what actually was a rather

hello and welcome to newswatch.ence but did the bbc do itsjob in covering policy as well as performance. and has the way we have got to talking about politics on the news just got too rude and argumentative? the party conference season is when we expect a leading politicians to set out their big ideas in the full glare of the media spotlight. sometimes though they declined broadcasters invitations to submit themselves to questioning and this week that led to a row. on tuesday, representatives from the bbc, sky, itv, channel 4 and channel five complained in a letter to downing street about what they called the prime minister's lack of availability for television interviews during her pa rty‘s conference. her director of communications replied that she had done 36 interviews during the conference. meanwhile, nick robinson mentioned on the today programme last week that although labour leaders normally appeared on the show during their party conference, they had been told that jeremy corbyn was unavailable to do so. si

now on breakfast it's time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me samira ahmed.mental panel on climate change was the latest in a series of warnings about the risks of rising global temperatures. reflecting the scientific concensus on this controversial issue. among the guests discussing the panel's findings on that evening's newsnight was myron ebell who used to be donald trump's environmental advisor and now runs a think tank which campaigns on behalf of the us energy industry. he was questioned by evan davis. do you think the scientists, who reviewed these 6,000 papers to produce this latest publication — 86 lead writers — do you literally think they don't believe what they have said? is that your contention? they're climate campaigners first, at the highest level. wow! but you're a climate campaigner more than they are. they're not even paid, these guys. you're paid. they're not paid. it's absolutely... go on. the study says that we've had about one degree of warming already. they don't consider the tremendous benefits that have flowed to humanity. sorry! aga

now on bbc news, it's time for newswatch.ophantic, or too rude. hello and welcome to newswatch. mean—spirited and rude? was some of the bbc reporting of princess eugenie's wedding a bit off—colour? what is the bbc royal coverage sycophantic what is the bbc royal coverage sycopha ntic and excessive? what is the bbc royal coverage sycophantic and excessive? first, the b—word has again dominated the news this week with much discussion about the likelihood of leaving the european union without a deal in place to have it was one of two possible outcomes laid out recently by the bbc assistant political editor norman smith. one, another referendum on brexit itself or two, crashing out of the eu without any deal. a number of viewers have taken exception to the phrase used at the

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.usation of sexual harrassment set off a torrent of speculation after the court of appeal issued an injunction preventing the newspaper from revealing that person's identity. when he was named, the bbc news channel reported the fact under the rules of qualified privilege. lord hain has used parliamentary privilege to name retail billionaire sir philip green as the businessman. lord hain's comments have now been widely reported across the media. the bbc cannot confirm the allegations and sir philip green has made no comment. reporter: in a statement, sir philip said he would not comment on what had been said in parliament, but he added to the extent that it suggested that i have been guilty of unlawful sexual or racist behaviour... studio: with the injunction remaining in force, not everyone was happy that the bbc reported sir philip's name. here's michael williams. last saturday saw the gathering in central london of a large number of people with a point to make. the peoples vote march

it is time for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch. mean—spirited and rude?e news this week with much discussion about the likelihood of leaving the european union without a deal in place to have it was one of two possible outcomes laid out recently by the bbc assistant political editor norman smith. 0ne, another referendum on brexit itself or two, crashing out of the eu without any deal. a number of viewers have taken exception to the phrase used at the end there with in frost asking... —— ian frost. it has been a right royal week with a number of monarchy related news reports on bbc television. it started last friday with the wedding of princess eugenie, the queen's granddaughter and jack brooksbank at st george's chapel in windsor castle. the bbc had apparently turned down the opportunity to broadcast it in full but there was still plenty of live coverage on the news channel and reports on the bulletins and online. too much for one person who wrote... but when royal correspondent nicholas witchell reported on the wedding, that prompted objections from a di

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in a few minutes it'll be time for newswatch. but first, here's click.ll systems are ready. ignition. japan has just done something amazing. it has flown a spaceship to a one—kilometre—wide near—earth asteroid called ryugu to do some incredible science. this is hayabusa2. it has just deployed three rovers onto ryugu's surface — will the german and french mascot probe on 3 october, and before that, the japanese minerva ii robot. their mission: to measure temperature and magnetic properties, and take photos of the surface. and amazingly, this is how they get about. yep, they bounce. i have come to the japanese aerospace exploration agency, jaxa, to meet the team who designed the mission and get my head around this bonkers mode of transport. in summary, this hops off the surface of an asteroid, it jumps about 10—15 metres into space, it stays... off the surface for about 15 minutes, and then comes back down... bounce and bounce and bounce. the images already returned by the minerva ii bots are wowing the world, but the risks they face are high. we did not h

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and on newswatch, did bbc news give the right prominence to last weekend's people's vote march in londonght at 7:45pm here on bbc news. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a man has been arrested in florida in connection with the suspected pipe bombs that have been sent to prominent democrats and critics of president trump. police have named him as cesar sayoc. today, two more suspicious packages were found, one of them addressed to a congressman, another to the former director of national intelligence chief james clapper. president trump has said america must unite, as our correspondent nick bryant reports from washington. this has been a nationwide manhunt, but it appeared to end today amidst the palm trees of florida. the federal authorities arresting a suspect in relation with the parcel bombs just north of miami. law—enforcement officials surrounded this white van that had trump stickers on it. the attacks have been directed against the president's detractors. as detectives covered it with tarpaulin, details emerged about the man taken into custody. he is 56 years old and was trac