Across the atlantic, the chaos and destruction caused by recent storms and floods continued with Hurricane Maria devastating several islands in the caribbean. How the name of one of those islands was pronounced caught the attention of several newswatch viewers following broadcasts like these. And there are reports of extensive damage to dominica where there are torrential rains and winds of more than 160 mph. The latest category five storm hit the island of dominica overnight with winds of 160 mph. The nations president said the devastation was mind boggling. That last introduction was watched by one newswatch viewer who explained the problem in this anonymous telephone call. I have been watching the bbc news today with sophie and it is quite irritating that the hurricane she says has hit dominica. Well, that is 1000 kilometres away. It has hit domin ee ca as the weatherman correctly pronounced it. The Dominican Republic is 1000 kilometres away. So please could you ask her to pronounce it correctly. Its domin ee ca. This weeks other major Natural Disaster was the earthquake that struck south of mexico city on tuesday leaving hundreds dead. The following day Aleem Maqbool reporter was on the site of a Primary School destroyed by the quake. Over the town, lines of volunteers of people trying to help those who may still be alive. Shh as we spoke, the rescue workers began to raise their hands to ask for a few minutes silence to try to hear any cries for help. Nojoy this time. We are very close to that school. I am having to whisper, even though we are a couple of blocks away from the school, we are being asked to keep quiet just in case there are any cries of people that are trapped inside that school. The following day, jessica long recorded a video summing up a complaint also made by scores of other viewers. 0n last nights news at ten, a journalist chose to talk through the silence designed to hear the voices of those still trapped after mexicos horrific earthquake. To talk through this silence is arrogance by the media of the worst kind. I am so disappointed in the journalist, in the bbc Editorial Team for broadcasting this, and in bbc standards in general if this is considered to be ok. It is not ok. Im afraid we were not able to get a response from bbc news in time for this programme, but we hope to feature one next week on newswatch. The initial Television Coverage of the earthquake in mexico largely relied, as many stories do these days come on footage like this, filmed by members of the public on mobile phones. It was either sent to broadcasters or sourced by them from social media. User generated content has become a vital tool for covering Fast Breaking news, particularly in far flung locations, which it is hard for camera crews to reach quickly. As we saw after the bomb attack on the London Underground last friday, it was only a matter of minutes before Bbc Television was showing the video recorded by other passengers and onlookers. Well, the rise in User Generated Content raises a number of questions for broadcasters and to discuss them i am joined by the social media editorfor bbc news. Welcome to newswatch. Take us back to the day of the earthquake in mexico. Obviously a terrible incident. What was coming into the bbc in terms of User Generated Content and how do you handle it . One of the things you have to remember is the first instance of any breaking news story, an earthquake, a hurricane or a terror attack is incredibly confusing. We get an enormous amount of material, but it comes in a variety of different ways. People will get in touch through whatsapp, we have an advertised number on the front of the website. They might get in touch directly on email or via text, sms. People will send us stuff if we want it or not, which is a good thing. But we are keen to get to people that we know are genuinely there, not just saying that they are there, because there is a lot of confusion and a lot of hoax material. How do you verify it . The best you can do is have a conversation with the person. You can direct message them on social media, on whatsapp, if you have their telephone number, you can get hold of them and have a one to one conversation. If that is not possible, you want to cross check a number of things, you want to check what they are saying against what you know in news reports in the first instance. You want to look at their profile and see if they are somebody who has been quite active in that area of the world already, how many times have they tweeted, posted on facebook, wherever they happen to be . Look at the language they are using. Is english the first language, is the content littered with typos and spelling mistakes . Are they verified or unverified on social media. Then you want to look more closely at the things that they are saying, the weather forecast, if they are sending you pictures and the pictures are very dark, but you know that the day was a bright one, sunshine, there is a lot of rain in the footage, that would send alarm bells. And then you can apply all sorts of reverse image searching on pictures and video. You can use google reverse image search, free to use tools on the internet like tineye. We have a lot of other things we can do to check the metadata of an image and video. More broadly, given that there is now an additional pressure to get this kind of material on air as the story is unfolding, is there a danger of bypassing the bbcs usual standards on taste and decency, and there has been accusations of that . I think it is really important to know that the people you are dealing with will often be part of a traumatic situation. That is the first thing to say. There are often people that are willing to talk to you, but should you be putting them on air . That is a question thats really important to figure out in the first instance. If they have been injured badly or lost loved ones, in an attack. Or it is intrusive footage of people that are injured . People that have been injured, have their relatives being contacted, is it safe to put that content on, or write to put it on without those people having been informed in their first instance . Indeed, in the Parsons Green attack that happened very recently, the police were involved quite early on and there were Anti Terrorist police, there were messages that went out to all news media to say will you blur the faces of our officers. Technical question, we get regular complaints from any newswatch technical question, we get regular complaints from many newswatch viewers, the way the bbc shows camera footage, there are big blurs at the side and many people find it distracting and confusing. The reason we do it is that we are broadcasting on a screen size that is different to the size of the device that has been used to record it and we want to give people a full screen experience of that footage. Were not trying to distort or confuse the viewers. It is not to do with which way you have the camera . Most people are filming footage in a variety of films. Most people are filming footage in a variety of ways. A lot of people will film in a vertical way to stop a lot of people will film in a vertical way what we really want them to do is turn the camera around and film horizontally so that we would then have footage that we can use on television as well as on digital platforms. The other thing to bear in mind is that television is important to us, but as is all of the other digital platforms that we make our content available for. We recognise that many viewers will be watching on a social media platform. The videos will be presented to them in square or vertical form, and on that basis the way that it has been filmed by be more suitable for that particular platform. Thank you very much. Finally, last week we aired a comment from someone who feels that the bbc is anti brexit, blaming it for everything that goes on. Victorjones sarcastically chastised the bbc for failing to suggest that the recent hurricanes were all down to our planned departure from the european union. Then another viewer spotted the headline brexit bill and Hurricane Irma leaves 6. 5 million without power. There might have been a missing comma . Thank you for your comments. If you would like to share your opinions on bbc news and Current Affairs or appear on the programme, ring us. We are also on twitter and you can look at the website. That is all from us. We will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc News Coverage again next week. The autumn equinox may be behind us now but the weather is feeling reasonably summery for some of us over the weekend. This was the scene on friday afternoon. As we head through the course of the weekend, many of us will have largely dry conditions, particularly on saturday. By sunday there will be rain heading into the west of the uk and temperatures will be on the rise as well. As low pressure sets out towards the north west with tight isobars here but at the moment High Pressure is dominating the south east. As we start saturday morning, there will be a little cloud and drizzly rain across southern parts of the country. Some low cloud, mist and murk first thing. It should brighten up during the day. If we have a look at saturday morning, nine oclock, after a chilly start in scotland and Northern Ireland it should be dry and reasonably bright with a little sunshine into Northern England and a little more cloud and drizzle and hill fog across the southern half of england and south wales. Waking up to a grey morning here but certainly mild, bear with the weather as it brightens up during the day. A fresh start for northern parts of the country, milder towards the south. Through the course of the morning this cloud and drizzly spots of rain willjust ease towards the east. For many of us it will brighten, particularly along the south coast later in the day. A little more cloud pushing into Northern England and scotland and the breeze picking up across Northern Ireland. All in all, a decent day with temperatures for most of us around 17 to 19 degrees. It should feel quite pleasant. Into saturday evening, most places end the day on a dry note. 0vernight saturday and into sunday you will notice a band of rain working towards the west. That is a weather front and the breeze peaks as well. Across much of england and wales you should begin the day on a dry note once again. It will be mild, certainly. Through the day on sunday, the weather front tries to move in from the west, bumps into High Pressure in the east so it will tend to fizzle out somewhat during the course of the morning. There will be some rain for Northern Ireland, scotland, perhaps the western fringes of wales and south west england. Later in the day, a chance of a few heavy bursts working in but further east across much of england and wales remains dry and bright and pretty warm. 22, 23 degrees in the sunshine. Just a little cooler in the north west. We still have a weather front lingering around on monday but it will fizzle out during the day. The east should stay warm and dry with temperatures 19 or 20 degrees. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. Im duncan golestani. Our top stories breathing new life into brexit talks, european leaders welcome the british prime ministers conciliatory tone but call for more clarity. Puerto rico faces the aftermath of Hurricane Maria tens of thousands are urged to evacuate as a major dam threatens to fail. Banned from the british capital uber, the online minicab service used by millions, is stripped of its london licence. And lots of applause for angela merkel. But as germanys election draws closer, is a right wing nationalist party about to go mainstream