bbc.co.uk newswatch. that's all from us.ck to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. hello. some subtle changes in our weather as we head through the weekend. it is going to start to feel just a little bit colder. it will often be cloudy. there will be some scattered showers. most of those showers will be falling as rain. but into the start of the new week, the changes become more dramatic. it will certainly feel much colder, particularly given the strength of the wind, and there'll be some snow and ice to contend with in places. at the moment, though, the really cold air is quite a long way away to the north of us, we do have this cold front sinking into the picture on saturday that will bring a band of cloud and some showers in north—east scotland and then slumping onto the east coast of england. even further west, i think there'll be quite large amounts of cloud. best chance of any sunshine across parts of western scotland, north—west england, maybe parts of wales as well. temperatures 6—9 degrees, ab

bbc.co.uk newswatch. that's all from us.e back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. hello there let's take a look at the weather for the week ahead. so far the temperature has been above the seasonal average. that's about to change with some cold air for the whole of the uk with the potential for some disruptive snowfall to low levels and even towards the south of england. why? because high pressure is clearing away, allowing cold fronts to slip down from the north to introduce that chilly out together. still not too cold, on saturday, many western spots starting off with a touch of frost. temperatures below freezing here but it's really for western scotland, western england, parts of western wales where we will see the day was my best sunshine. further east, a few spots of drizzle from the clackamas and eastern coastal showers, and some showers, too. this is the position of the conference on saturday night, it'sjust is the position of the conference on saturday night, it's just gradually continuing

welcome to newswatch, richard. now there used to be two bbc news channels. now there's essentially one with the uk opt outs, is that right? that's right. let me give you a health warning first. i haven't spoken to anybody in the bbc about this. i'm as clueless as maybe some of the staff are about what the new channel will look like when it's launched in about four weeks�* time, i think. but you can get a pretty good sense of it already because much of the change has already happened. and if you turn on — it's not quite true, as some of your viewers have suggested, that there's no longer a domestic bulletin. in fact, if you turn on not at the hour, but at the half hour, you'll find that the second half hour. the back half hour. the back half hour, that's technical lingo. the back half hour is domestic news because that's not being broadcast around the world. and the rest of the world will see documentaries, pre—filmed programmes for the back half hour. so it's the first half hour of the programme, which is now going to be a mixture of international and uk new

you can call us on 3700106676, and do have a look at our website bbc.co.uk/newswatch. to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. spring daffodils in full bloom now right across the country, but what we could do with is some spring like weather. well, for some, we had that today. in fact, in northeast england it was a mild and often quite sunny day as depicted by this weather watch watcher in northumberland. it was a different story, though, elsewhere. we did have some sharp thundery downpours, a rainbow in the sky across falkirk with some threatening looking skies here. now, if we take a look back at the cloud and the rain radar from recent hours, you can see just how widespread those showers have been today, but at the same time, there's also been some sunny spells as well. and that's the story as we go through the night, tonight and into tomorrow. with low pressure anchored out to the west, feeding in plenty of showers from the west through the night. so, we keep quite a lot of cloud around. that's going to prevent those temp

thank you for coming on newswatch.hanges, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we're entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news...with the new channel.

you can call us on 3700106676, and do have a look at our website, bbc.co.uk/newswatch.r thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye. hello there. the weekend is getting off to a mild start. we will certainly stick with those mild conditions throughout saturday. there will be some spells of sunshine, but there will also be some pretty heavy and thundery showers around. for sunday, perhaps a little cooler for some of us and a little drier for a time as well. now, on the earlier satellite picture, we can see various clumps of cloud. the cloud has been bringing some showery rain in places and all of that cloud and those showers rotating around an area of low pressure, which will be dominating the scene for saturday. and this little frontal system wriggling its way up from the south, well, that will bring a pulse of more persistent rain up across southeast england and into east anglia. also, this band of rain swinging across northern ireland and into the western side of scotland in between some spells of sunshine. but some showers will pop up, some of which wil

thank you for coming on newswatch.ow, we've already seen some of the changes, like the loss of the paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we're entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news...with the new channel. we're gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you've said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there's a global feed, and there is a uk feed, and at some point they're combined, but at other times they're separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things between 6am—11am, every day, every weekday, uk viewers will see bbc breakfast and then the nicky campbell phone—in. and also then during the day, the one, six and ten o'clock news will also be on the uk feed. and also newsnight is going to be introduced onto the uk feed as well. so these are all programmes they could be consuming on other parts

thank you for coming on newswatch.he paper review, the film review, dateline london. what differences will there be from next week? we're entering, i think, a really exciting phase for bbc news with the news...with the new channel. we're gradually bringing in the changes during april and early may. as you've said at the beginning there, some of the output will be combined. and so, the way to sort of understand the channel is there are two main feeds. there's a global feed, and there is a uk feed, and at some point they're combined, but at other times they're separate. so, for example, just to give you a sense of things, between 6am—11am, every day, every weekday, uk viewers will see bbc breakfast and then the nicky campbell phone—in. and also then during the day, the one, six and ten 0'clock news and also, then during the day, the one, six and ten 0'clock news will also be on the uk feed. and also, newsnight is going to be introduced onto the uk feed as well. so, these are all programmes they could be consuming on othe

in about ten minutes on bbc news, it's newswatch. but first here's click. cars can go from 0 to 100 in four seconds. they are made of 80,000 parts. the brakes can hit 1000 degrees. this is formula 1. this year's season is getting under way and it is jampacked full of tech, and it's not just the cars. yeah it's all about the data these days. they collect as much of it as they can from on and off the track to help make decisions which could change the results, and alistair keane has been given exclusive access to the alpine f1 team to find out how they race. being behind the wheel of a formula 1 car is a privilege. driving the fastest car in the world, the adrenaline rush is so high. it's a privilege because there are more than 1000 people working on our team. i'm the guy that is at the axis. the feeling of speed and the g—force you feel at the corners, due to the speed you are carrying, it is so satisfying. what do you make of the car that has been unveiled behind us? i think it looks beautiful. in terms of evolution, i am more interested in the changes and

coming up in 10 minutes�* time, newswatch. but first on bbc news, click.tribution of women in all walks of life has often been forgotten, because history has mainly been recorded by men. but here at the glasgow women's library, their achievements are rightly celebrated. this is the only accredited museum in the uk dedicated to women's history, and it's filled with books that are about, for or by women. 20,000 books and 500,000 archived items here are providing a valuable resource for researchers and historians. amongst all of that, you will find stories about some amazing women. like this one. i'm a bit of a fan of ada lovelace. when i learned to program computers when i was young, i could practise on the computers i had around at the time. but when ada lovelace wrote the very first algorithm in the 1840s, computers didn't even exist. her code was designed to run on a theoretical machine that only existed on paper. so this week, we're celebrating the achievements of female tech innovators. shiona meets an absolute legend of the sporting world to find out h

hello, and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.ing on industrial action, but on strikes themselves? and a row over comments made by a bbc presenter. sound familiar? whenever there's a big speech or debate due in the house of commons, it's become the practice of the bbc and other media organisations to set up shop opposite parliament and broadcast live from the patch of grass known as college green. when that happened for the budget on wednesday, not for the first time, it was a case of camera, lights, action and background music. one of the measures that we're expecting him to go ahead with, which is raising corporation tax, the tax on companies' profits, from 19% to 25%, although we're expecting that he might offset that with some other investment allowances to help business. helen, we'll talk again later. to the strains of abba, hopefully not then. thank you very much. once the strains of money, money, money had died away, shaun ley had some more music to contend with. this time a tune with a rather painful relevance for the bbc

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.up, why has the bbc news channel's dedicated service for uk audiences largely disappeared? and why did a tweet from a sports presenter hit the top of the news headlines? it's been another week when the bbc itself has become the story, at least in its own eyes. on wednesday, the row over tweets posted by the match of the day, presenter gary lineker led the evening news bulletins. at six, the bbc presenter gary lineker says he'll keep speaking up for those with no voice after criticism from downing street over his comments about the government's asylum plans. while other media organisations might have been less keen to air their problems in public, david wilson didn't see the prominence it gave the story as being to the bbc�*s credit. we've known for a while that this spring will see the launch of a new channel, bbc news, to be shown in the uk and around the world. it's replacing the current news channel which operates domestically only and world news which is only shown abroad. there ha

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.bbc news channel's dedicated service for uk audiences largely disappeared? and why did a tweet from a sports presenter hit the top of the news headlines? it's been another week when the bbc itself has become the story, at least in its own eyes. on wednesday, the row over tweets posted by the match of the day, presenter gary lineker led the evening news bulletins. at six, the bbc presenter gary lineker says he'll keep speaking up for those with no voice after criticism from downing street over his comments about the government's asylum plans. while other media organisations might have been less keen to air their problems in public, david wilson didn't see the prominence it gave the story as being to the bbc�*s credit. he wrote "bbc news felt this was a lead rather than, say, international reaction to the proposed bill, to analysis of the legality of the proposals or even discussion of the nature of the home secretary's rhetoric." "mr lineker is not the story." "as we saw with the endles

coming up here on bbc news, it's newswatch. first, though, atjust after 3:30, it's time for click.u ever wondered what happens when a satellite goes wrong? how would you know what was up? 30 seconds... that's what i have come to texas to find out. we are at this 200—acre site to film a hot fire test of a rocket engine. when it first starts up, it's going to be relatively gamey, you're going to see some shock waves. oh, wow. and we are going to do it in a way that even the rocket makers themselves have not done before. mission control: four, three, two, one... in 2022, firefly aerospace became one ofjust a few us companies that have successfully put things into orbit. cheering look at that view! the company has also won contracts from nasa to build a lunar lander that will deliver payloads to the moon in 2024 and 2026, and put a satellite into lunar orbit. but it's the bit between launching from the earth and landing on the moon that has piqued my interest. we also want to build an orbiting spacecraft that has the ability to be on call for our customers. you can literally go to a we

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up...iewers without access to regional news programmes? and do we need to be shown what a packet of sausages looks like? first, politicaljournalists have been busy this week, following up a string of revelations in the daily telegraph. here's bbc political editor, chris mason on wednesday's news at ten. matt hancock's phone is revealing an insight into the private conversations in government as covid swept the country. and the then health secretary was centre stage. turning to what's happening here in the uk after the pandemic, mr hancock worked with this journalist isabel 0akeshott to write a book about it and gave her his text messages. she has now given them to the daily telegraph. that was despite ms 0akeshott having signed an agreement not to reveal the messages because she said they are in the public interest. a spokesperson for mr hancock said the leaks offer partial accounts obviously spun with an agenda action. because bbcjournalists hadn't seen the messages themselves, they were i

richard simpson contacted newswatch after reading the article and recorded this video for us.ded this video for us. . . , article and recorded this video forus. ,~ for us. i was very concerned about a _ for us. i was very concerned about a recent _ for us. i was very concerned about a recent bbc - for us. i was very concerned about a recent bbc news i for us. i was very concerned - about a recent bbc news story, headlined evacuated afghan women's team included false footballers. these women, even if the story is true, have fled the taliban, have basically beenin the taliban, have basically been in fear of their lives, and they've come to a country that they are expected to be welcoming and understanding of their plight. instead, they come face—to—face with a headline like this. and i know it has caused consternation in their communities and, really, it was completely necessary. we asked bbc for someone to interview to respond to those points and our request was declined. a spokesperson gave us this statement: as the bbc�*s new unified channel to replace the current domestic ne

and basically i believe my organisation and newswatch believes that it's because the complaints process is, is, is not, not up to standard it's a joke. in fact the bbc are still their own judge and jury on matters internal complaints they look after the vast majority and the past year that there's figures they upheld only about 12 complaints through their hq which is a bit like the star chamber internal and they had something like 492,000 complaints in total. had something like 492,000 complaints in total . what we complaints in total. what we need the bbc mid—term review to do which is due to report in may the. dcms is dealing with that at the moment is just to overhaul the complaints system and make it robust and genuinely independent and i think if that happens although the rot is set in so much, it'll be a very difficult turnaround. that would be a challenge . okay. so maybe be a challenge. okay. so maybe the bbc is not hope? no it may be possible there are good journalists at the bbc i come back to the point that the confirmation bias is that that is fed in in the complaints area a

and basically i believe my organisation and newswatch believes that it's because the complaints process is, is, is not, not up to standard it's a joke. in fact the bbc are still their own judge and jury on matters internal complaints they look after the vast majority and the past year that there's figures they upheld only about 12 complaints through their hq which is a bit like the star chamber internal and they had something like 492,000 complaints in total. had something like 492,000 complaints in total . what we complaints in total. what we need the bbc mid—term review to do which is due to report in may the. dcms is dealing with that at the moment is just to overhaul the complaints system and make it robust and genuinely independent and i think if that happens although the rot is set in so much, it'll be a very difficult turnaround. that would be a challenge . okay. so maybe be a challenge. okay. so maybe the bbc is not hope? no it may be possible there are good journalists at the bbc i come back to the point that the confirmation bias is that that is fed in in the complaints area a

. - now on breakfast, it's time for newswatch.bel 0akeshott, to write a book about it, and gave her his text messages. she has now given them to the daily telegraph. that was despite ms oakeshott having signed an agreement not to reveal the messages because she said they are in the public interest. a spokesperson for mr hancock said the leaks offer partial accounts obviously spun with an agenda action. because bbcjournalists hadn't seen the messages themselves, they were initially somewhat limited in what they could report, which prompted sanghera to write: but later, there was criticism of too much coverage from elizabeth smith, who begged: and mack wood agreed: if the prominence of matt hancock in this week's news was a reminder of political times past, so too was his speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no—one is going to stop me reciting the song of the oompa—loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustu

david listen, what is newswatch.e great public? you mentioned the income about three and a half billion. could do it on a fraction of that. how much you think the licence fee should be? i think give and take. gretchen minus the mind to come up with a precise answer to that . i think what the bbc needs to do is to take long, hard look and this in association with consultation with the audience about what services the people are genuinely enjoying , what are genuinely enjoying, what services are genuinely and in the current broadcasting environment . and i think also environment. and i think also what bbc need to do is i think it's terribly important. part of the equation is starting to respond better to their audience at the moment. respond better to their audience at the moment . the interface, at the moment. the interface, for example, through the complaints system is that most the vast majority of complaints that received by the bbc are rejects said by the bbc as judged and jury. i think a way of opening up the bbc

david listen, what is newswatch.blic? you mentioned the income about three and a half billion. could do it on a fraction of that. how much you think the licence fee should be? i think give and take. gretchen minus the mind to come up with a precise answer to that . i think what the bbc needs to do is to take long, hard look and this in association with consultation with the audience about what services the people are genuinely enjoying , what are genuinely enjoying, what services are genuinely and in the current broadcasting environment . and i think also environment. and i think also what bbc need to do is i think it's terribly important. part of the equation is starting to respond better to their audience at the moment. respond better to their audience at the moment . the interface, at the moment. the interface, for example, through the complaints system is that most the vast majority of complaints that received by the bbc are rejects said by the bbc as judged and jury. i think a way of opening up the bbc would be

hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.iew, all uk—focused programmes on the news channel, and the announcement of a reduced roster of presenters for the new channel. some output has been shared for a while across world news and the news channel, especially overnight and at weekends. but it still came as a surprise to some viewers of the latter tuning in on monday to find that all dedicated domestic news bulletins had ceased to exist during the day. apart from breakfast and the bulletins at one, six and 10:00, all still simulcast on bbc one and the news channel, every hour began something like this. hello, this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk on pbs in the united states and around the globe. i�*m anita mcvey. our top stories... to all intents and purposes then, the uk only news channel seems to have almost disappeared, although there�*s been no announcement to that effect. viewer chris sharman was already telling us a few weeks ago: and on monday, julian bray was surprised to observe: later in the week, after watching so

let's take a look now at this week's newswatch.round music. one of the measures that we're expecting him to go ahead with, which is raising corporation tax, the tax on companies' profits, from 19% to 25%, although we're expecting that he might offset that with some other investment allowances to help business. abba plays helen, we'll talk again later. to the strains of abba, hopefully not then. thank you very much. once the strains of money, money, money had died away, shaun ley had some more music to contend with. this time, a tune with a rather painful relevance for the bbc at the moment. but actually it's worth more, i if corporation tax is a bit higher, and this is the point i think- that the government's going to try and make when it i talks about success. comedic music the government might try and do something quite radical on this. there's certainly been pressure to say actually, right, write these extra costs off in the year the investment is made. not easy discussing the finer points of corporation tax while the match of t

it's time now for this week's newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed.e after another, the revelations came. _ the evidence stacked up, offences fell. —— the evidence stacked up, the defences fell. boris johnson's government stumbled and then collapsed. today is about mrjohnson's reputation, but it is bigger than that. some viewers objected to the terminology used at the top of that news bulletin and elsewhere on bbc news. here's mike roberts: others felt more widely that the bbc seem to have prejudged the question of whether the former prime minister had knowingly misled parliament. peter collins was among them: when the taliban took power in afghanistan in 2021, the freedom and safety of women there immediately came under threat. that was especially true of female footballers at risk because they play a sport the taliban considered un—islamic. after a campaign in the british press, 35 players were evacuated to the uk and given the right to stay here. but last week, an article on the bbc news website and a report shown on newsnight said 13 of those flow

in the daily mirror and hs2, who in the daily mirror and sun are something totally different news newswatcher wag war and the daily star says prince harry spent the last three years moaning about life as a royal. but has now declared his children have a right to be a prince and princess use their birthright. that's i mean, he's not wrong. it's sort of is it? so if he hated it so much, why would you know? i was quite surprised by that yesterday. i just think meghan markle is one. i do think you'd maybe not want your children to be princes and princesses, considering difficult. they have found it certainly very interesting. i have. certainly very interesting. i have . yes. let know what you have. yes. let us know what you think about that. but time to get through the papers now. and joining morning our joining us this morning is our favourite husband wife team favourite husband and wife team claire nigel claire pearsall and nigel nelson. to nelson. good morning to you. brilliant you us. brilliant to have you with us. claire, start with you, claire, let's start with you, shall it's on the fron