Pay that fee. Its been known for some time that bbc news would be seeing significant budget cuts, and this week, saw the first high profile casualty. This week, saw the first highprofile casualty. Good morning, welcome to the programme, we are still here telling your stories and covering the issues that are important to you in your life. You know what . We dont give up. Victoria derbyshire they are opening the show that bears her name on thursday morning. After she had learned from reading the newspaper that dont make the previous day that dont make the previous day that the programmes is coming to an end. She had said on social media that she was devastated, and colleagues, media commentators and politicians also criticised the decision. So do viewers including mike, who wrote. And john holt be agreed. Well, we hope to discuss the decision and budget cuts more widely, the bbc director of news in the next week or two. In the meantime, a statement put out on twitter, she paid tribute to Victoria Derbyshire and the team, adding, this has not been an easy decision. World leaders gathered injerusalem on thursday for an event marking 75 yea rs on thursday for an event marking 75 years since the liberation of the nazi death camps at auschwitz. The previous night in the lead up to the anniversary, bbc news showed an interview with holocaust survivor, rena clint, by the very experienced middle east correspondent orla gorin, who finished a report like this. And yada for shans hall of names, images of the dead. Young soldiers troop into share the binding tragedy of the jewish people. Troop into share the binding tragedy of thejewish people. The state of israel is now a regional power, for decades, it has occupied palestinian territories. But some here will a lwa ys territories. But some here will always see their nation through the prism of persecution and survival. That reference to Israel Occupying palestinian territories infuriated and offended many viewers. Heres myra. The bbc spokesperson said in response. We discussed on last week s programme, the bbcs reporting of the duke and duchess of sussex, but your comments on that subject have continued to come in. Most of them this week focused on the presence of so few long and a camera crew on Vancouver Island, where the royal couple are now staying. Apart from the expense of sending a team there, it was Something Else that irked lynn. The gutter press had gone out to Vancouver Island to try and take photographs, and i can only assume that the bbc were there to report on the gutter press. Which makes them no better in my view. What did the bbc expect to achieve if they had actually filmed megan and harry, that wouldve been a total invasion of their privacy. Megan and harry have made the decision to step back from doing public duties, in order to avoid the press intrusion that they have suffered from for the last 18 months meghan. They want to be left alone. Now, lastly, an article appeared on the home page of the bbc website. That sparked something of a debate about the value of the corporations online output. Read that headline, and the story that followed prompted fresh allegations that the bbc news online was dumbing down. Neville wonder. Nigel cummings agreed. Bryn harris widened out that criticism. Well, the feature about the boyfriend and the cat came from bbc trending, a strand devoted, as it says, to in depth reporting on the world of social media. They are stories appear across a number of bbc social media outlets. On facebook and twitter, as you would expect, but also via podcasts, welfare World Service radio and on television. Recent examples of the work range from women equate being trafficked online to the rise of the brazilian but lift, with me to explain more is mike wendling, the editor of bbc training. Thank you for coming on news watch. The story did strike a bit of a nerve, i think its fair to say, is it how to tell my cat my boyfriend dumped me really what qualifies as a new story for bbc news . Yes. Let me explain it like this. News, all news, our website, newspapers, any news outlets, it usually has light and shade, right . It features stories that might be a little bit later and stories that might be a little bit heavier. The bit that im responsible for, the very small part of the bbc news website, bbc trending, has also recently reported on russian interference in the uk election, we had a viewer, a reader who mentioned australian bushfires, well, we published a story that was very popular about miss Information Online about the australian bushfires, about a discussion on social media in iran about the downing of the ukrainian airliner. So, you know, there is a whole range of material. Now, i want to actually address whats actually in the story, because i feel like a lot of the reaction came, not necessarily about the story itself, but about the headline. You can say, oh, its a silly thing about a post about a woman and her relationship with her cats. But if you frame it in a different way, if you say that its actually about grief, relationships, break up, and mental health, which essentially is what the story was about to come and got into those issues and spoke to experts about those issues, than it looks a little bit less like fluff or light or click bait. 0k. And suppose people might say, yes, bbc trending overwhelmingly covers quite seriously stories, but isnt it important that anything about wider social issues and Global Concerns you are saying it does, but the headline was misleading, because their stories in which people built dont have that defence. Well, that may be the case, but dont think that the story qualifies, to be com pletely that the story qualifies, to be completely honest with you. I think that it was a perfectly legitimate thing to take a look at this issue. It started a wider conversation on social media, and we look at those. Now, all of the conversations that we look at on social media are going to be about say it, russian misinformation in the uk election, this is simply a different topic in a simply different way of looking at social media. Its interesting you say starting a conversation, people are saying is that bbc news job to be starting a conversation which might seem trivial, and which other outlets can do, that the bbc news should be focused on clear news. So, what we do, what we aim to do with every piece, right . Is to take a look at what people are interested m, a look at what people are interested in, which is actually one of the fundamental definitions of news, things that people are interested m, things that people are interested in, and crucially, notjust sort of repeat, you know, its not like we just sort of put up that post, we add value. We look at the issues behind it. We talked to the people who originally may have produced the post. Sometimes, we go to the sources of disinformation or miss Information Online. Thats where we add value. Thats our purpose. Its add value. Thats our purpose. Its a real controversy theres a real controversy underneath dirty those theres a real generational divide about what counts as new. Theres a real generational divide about what counts as newlj theres a real generational divide about what counts as new. I have no idea how old the people who are writing in are. But i suspect that, the numbers bear this out, that a lot of the people who are reading this particular story were younger. It was younger in general and the people who read bbc online. So, that could be a part of it. Look, i mean, we run a General Service here at the bbc, right . So, you know, if you do not want or are not interested in our coverage in this particular area about relationships or pets or whatever, you may be interested in our political coverage, you may be interested in ha rd our political coverage, you may be interested in hard news, the day to day news that appears on bbc online, which of course is the mainstay of the website. Its a General Service, and we provide part of that service to, quite frankly, an audience that has been ignored by a lot of the bbc for a long time. Mike, thank you so much. Thank you for all your comments this week. If you want to share your opinions on what you see or hear on the bbc news, including its social media and online output, please do e mail us. Or you can find us on please do e mail us. Or you can find us on twitter. You can call us. You could even appear on the programme, and do have a look at our website for the previous discussions. Thats all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts about bbc News Coverage again next week. Goodbye. Hello there. Grey and gloomy skies tended to dominate through friday, we saw lots of cloudy photos sent in by our weather watchers. This one sentin by our weather watchers. This one sent in from eastbourne, not a lot of sunshine to be found here. Plenty of sunshine to be found here. Plenty of blue sky in this photo though, sentin of blue sky in this photo though, sent in by a weather watcher in north yorkshire. This blue sky was certainly the exception to the rule. If you take a look at the satellite pictures from friday afternoon, you can see lots of cloud across much of the uk. The best of any breaks to be found to the east of high ground. As we go through tonight, its a generally cloudy affair. There will be some missed, mark, hill fog. The clu b be some missed, mark, hill fog. The club picking up for the odd spot of drizzle or patchy like rain at times into the early hours, start to see if you clear spells feeding into southern england here it could turn locally chilly, but for most it will bea locally chilly, but for most it will be a frost free night. Not a great deal of change as we move into the start of the weekend. That area of High Pressure thats kept things settled starts to clear away, and we see this cold front edging into the northwest, which will bring change as we move into sunday. So, a cloudy start to the day on saturday. Again, mist and hell fog, cloud could be thick enough for some drizzle, 1 just make for western areas, breeds your day than friday. More significant rain pushing into the far northwest later. Temperatures are 9 10 degrees celsius. As we move into sunday, then we start to see a shift of something more unsettled. This cold front pushes its way south east behind it, a chillier air mass feeding in. So, for sunday, he will start with our bricks of rain for western areas, some of that could be quite heavy at times. That rain will post east through the day on sunday, brighter skies though feeding and behind, particularly for Northern Ireland, western scotland, few showers for northwest scotland, to be wintry over high ground, and a blustery day with the south south westerly wind. Temperatures i had a fat front sitting in the double figures. Highs of around 10 degrees sundeck celsius here. Turning cooler in the north and west. Then, as we move into the start of next week, that cold front clears towards the southeast, this a feature though could bring some tricky driving conditions first thing on monday, with the potential to see some snow for parts of northern england, Northern Ireland and scotland. A much cooler field to things for the start of next week with rain and showers staying across the forecast. This is bbc in years, i am rachel, the headlines at eight p m. 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