To suicide in september. They walked between all four uk parliaments calling for Suicide Prevention to become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. The idea is to do any exercise you want swimming, running, cycling, anything and record it on the doddie aid app. Every individual bit of exercise done is counted on the app and then added to a leaderboard. Now, in its third year, doddie aid has already raised a remarkable £2 million for research. Features like those dont go down well with all the audience. Heres one viewer who got in touch with us. Hello. Im a big fan of Bbc Breakfast and have been watching for many, many years, but lately it seems that its become very one note in terms of reports on campaigning. Many years, but lately it seems that its become very one note in terms of reports on campaigning. Im in awe of the work that Mnd Campaigners do, for example, and the ladies who brought across, i think, the north sea or the atlantic and the dads whove been highlighting the Suicide Problems among young men. Its wonderful, but it seems that Bbc Breakfast will pick up the story and just follow it maybe once or twice a week for absolutely ages, and youll have a package with the film and then youll have a Studio Interview and the reports seem to be getting longer and longer. Peter pollock echoed that begging. Others object to the amount of airtime given to guests publicising a new book, film or television series. Heres some more clips from the past week. Im going to ask you lots of very in depth questions about the whole show and everything. But the first one has to be about the hair. Wow. I mean, thats like a whole character in itself. It is, yeah. Tell us about the show. How does it work . How do you put these Celebrity Couples through the tasks . Your play is all about manners. Do you want to just explain this . You do it better. The plays written by Steven Moffat of sherlock fame, of course. Keith grant was one of a number of viewers objecting to interviews such as those. And joe chandler expressed concern about the recent focus on one particular book. Plenty there to discuss with the editor of Bbc Breakfast, richard fredianelli. Thank you so much for coming on newswatch. Its lovely to have you here along with the rest of bbc news. I think its fair to say youve done a lot about prince harry in the past couple of weeks. Too much. We have done a lot, but weve done far more on the Cost Of Living or the Health Crisis facing the National Health Service Across the uk. Prince harrys story is a story of genuine interest. Look at how many books he sold in the last few days. Its a story that the viewers will react to. And i would argue, is it about weve done too much or is there just a subjective appeal about whether we should be doing it at all . Ultimately, we live in a constitutional monarchy. Prince harry is part of that. And therefore, what he has to say about his own life, the life of his relationship with prince william, the king and others, is going to be of interest and in some case, in some parts of it may be of significant news value. People see all those interviews, which we gave examples of with celebrities plugging their new book or their new play or their new film or their tv show, and they think its just free advertising and its all coming at the expense of real news. What do you say . Well, look, were a topical News Programme, so we do a mix of news. But other issues and issues that matter to the audience and an audiences life is filled with many different events and shades of what they do. So, for instance, as well as the issues that matter to them on a day to day basis, such as health and Cost Of Living, theyre watching television at home. So whether its happy valley that rates at five or six million and theyre interested in the story of the character that the lead role in happy valley is based on. Or, for instance, johnny vegas came on earlier this week, ostensibly to to talk about a new programme which is in. But actually the interview ended up talking about his recent diagnosis of adhd, of which weve got a huge amount of Viewer Feedback praising us for discussing that issue so openly. Which leads onto my next question, which is the Health Related charity campaigns, which are slightly different to the news story that you just gave an example of. Those campaigns have become regular part of breakfast. Regular part of breakfast. And as you know, there are viewers who feel that theres ample space for this sort of thing after 9 15am and again, its just too much of it on breakfast, which is, they think, a News Programme. Look, im grateful to the millions of viewers who tune in to Bbc Breakfast every single morning and make us the number one choice. And theyre always, always going to be a divide about stories that. You believe we should and shouldnt cover in terms of those issues, such as what i would say is about raising awareness. I mean, look at kevin sinfield. It began two years ago as going out for a run with six people and ended up with 67,000 people and several million on television cheering him into the final, the Rugby League World cup final, after hed run seven ultramarathons in seven days. But what it did was focus and attention on that issue. Weve done the same with prostate cancer. We had viewers contacting us about a guy called Garry Mccarthy who had run 365 marathons in 365 days because he wanted to raise awareness about macmillan cancer. And they were saying to us, why arent you giving him more attention . We think he should be celebrated because you know what . These are people doing extraordinary things to raise awareness and help millions, literally, of other people. Do you see breakfast as a news or as an entertainment show . Its a topical News Programme that has a mix of everything for viewers in different ways. Its not like the 6 00 news. Its not the 10 00 news. And thats notjust true of us. But i look across the Media Landscape at breakfast time, and whether youre talking about us or any of our rivals, you see that same sort of mix at breakfast. I can onlyjudge it based on the reaction we get from our audience, and thats why programmes like newswatch are of value. The emails we get in the tweets that i see, the audience is contacting viewer complaints. We take all those things on board. I think, look, news is often subjective to many people. Everybody has a view about what you should and shouldnt cover. People have a view about what issues you should and shouldnt cover. 0n newswatch. Its a subjective industry and we take a view about the issues we think we should cover, the stories we should cover, often based on audience interaction. And when we do that, i think it gives the audience a range of stories that they enjoy on a daily basis. Do you think that one of the reasons there are more complaints we were wondering is because so much of breakfast is now simulcast on the news channel, and people watching the news channel, you know, they used to know if i turn on the news. Ill get a news bulletin, essentially with news interviews. And they dont get that anymore. Well, look, breakfast has been on the news channel since, what, 2000, right . 95 of our audience is on is on bbc one. Just a very small section of it is on the news channel. And the only comparison i can give you is theres only one time of the week when were exclusively on the news channel and not on bbc one. And thats on a Sunday Morning when bbc one plays much of the day. Highlights at around 730. And you know what . The number one choice from 730 till 9 00 on a Sunday Morning ahead of any other news channel by significant level is Bbc Breakfast on the bbc news channel. So we clearly are doing something that the audience appreciate. Newswatch, of course, as you said yourself, goes out during breakfast on saturdays, which we love. We get a big audience sometimes covering complaints about breakfast. Is it weird for you . I dont think its weird. I think theres a challenge for newswatch, which isjust because youre on breakfast, does that mean that the audience always feel like youre the regulator and monitor of breakfast . And i think the challenge is to make sure that you cover complaints about all range of bbc programmes. Look, i dont think it is. I think its right that you exist. I think its right that the audience is views are reflected and i think its right that people like me are held to account. Richard, thank you so much for coming on newswatch. 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 email newswatch at bbc. Co. Uk or you can find us on twitter at newswatch bbc. You can call us on 0370106676. And do you have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc. Co. Uk newswatch. Thats all from us. Well be back to hear your thoughts about bbc News Coverage again next week. Goodbye. Hello there. Flooding remains a concern heading into the first part of the weekend. This is picture of the River Severn Overflowing and flooding, low lying ground round worcestershire. Problem is, weve got more heavy rain on the way and with lots of Flood Warnings currently in force, most of those are actually for stretches of the river severn where we could see further problems heading into the first part of the weekend. The next area of heavy rain is going to come from this area of low pressure, this cloud thats very quickly moving into our shores at the moment. And through friday night and into saturday morning, some of the hillier areas of wales, maybe South West England could see as much as 70 millimetres of rain, that rain falling on those areas that are already experiencing flooding. Now, the weather does brighten up later in the day, but well see some rain moving back into scotland, northern ireland, northwest england, where it turns windy with gales and through the day it will start to turn a little bit cooler across Northern Areas, although in the south will still see highs up to about 12 now through saturday. Night time still very windy for scotland, northern ireland, Northern England too, with rain at times colder air working in. So were going to start to see those temperatures drop. May well see some patches of frost developing in sheltered parts of scotland as we head into Sunday Morning. And certainly sunday is going to feel really quite chilly because were going to lose those south westerly winds weve had over recent days, replace it with colder north westerly winds with the air coming down from polar regions. Now with that, there is the risk of seeing some wintry showers across Northern Scotland on sunday. Got this little band of rain left over stretching across northern ireland, probably running into parts of Northern England, wales and the midlands. But otherwise, most parts of the country are having a bright day with some sunshine. It will, though, feel quite cold, particularly for scotland, where temperatures across Northern Areas willjust be around three orfour degrees. But even further south, eight its coldest the weathers been so far this year, really into next week. Things that we do know about the forecast, well, its going to be a lot colder. Therell be widespread frost, some ice patches to come and some snow showers coming right the way down to low levels. But theres some uncertainty about details about something potentially a bit more disruptive. Take sunday night, for example. Some models have snow in Northern Scotland and a few wintry showers inland across england and wales. But there are some other models that develop an area of low pressure. And in this scenario, we could be looking at a spell of disruptive snow sunday night and into Monday Mornings rush hour across parts of england and wales. I must stress, though, those details are really quite uncertain at the moment. Are the differences between those two models are down to the jet stream . Now, within jet streams weve got 220 miles an hour. Thats a Strong Atlantic jet within jets. We get Development Regions just here, sat across england and wales. If you can get a low pressure to move exactly into that region, it develops. If it misses that region, it doesnt develop. And thats why were seeing a difference in the models at the moment. Eitherway, really, as we head into monday, well be looking at cold weather, northerly winds bringing snow certainly to Northern Scotland, maybe to eastern scotland. And Eastern England just depends on the details of a low pressure that by this stage will be out in the north sea. Very cold temperatures struggling to get much above freezing across Northern Areas, maybe about four in london. Now, choose the onwards. I have to say theres not a great deal of certainty in the forecast. It will be cold still. There could be some areas of disruptive snow around, but were just not sure about the details. The trend really is for the weather gradually to turn a bit milder into next weekend. Quite a lot going on then. Bye for now. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Russia claims its forces have captured the ukrainian town of soledar , but kyiv insists � severe� fighting is still ongoing. 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