some rain in the forecast especially gci’oss some rain in the forecast especially across southern some rain in the forecast especially gci’oss southern areas some rain in the forecast especially across southern areas so some rain in the forecast especially across southern areas so join me later for across southern areas so join me laterfor a full across southern areas so join me later for a full weather round up. it is saturday 2a november. our top story: theresa may is heading to brussels to attempt to finalise her brexit deal with eu leaders. the prime minister is hoping the plans will be approved at a summit on sunday. but spain s prime minister has threatened to derail the timetable if he doesn t get further reassurances over the status of gibraltar. here is our political correspondent chris mason. roll up, roll up, the prime minister does not quite say, but you get the picture. the government is setting its stall out wherever you might hear, see, or read it. but for
bbc news has been making some attempts to explain what is in the draft agreement and the political declaration. for instance, with reality check on the bbc news channel and online. those efforts were appreciated. performing a similar role is ask this, where answers are in theory provided to queries from members of the public by bbc correspondents or independent commentators, or on friday by the prime minister herself in a 5 live radio programme and also shown live on the news channel. has the prime minister answered your question? no. a more orthodox edition was shown on tuesday when reeta chakrabarti started with a fundemental question for her to experts. let s kick off with an e mail from phoebe who says, i understand that parliament is falling out over the deal agreed by theresa may but i don t know what the deal agreed was. can you tell me this. john, have you read it? it is 500 pages and haven t read it all but i ve the bits that matter. that was met with approval from a
the reporter could have described what the jury had had to witness and listened to, to explain the full depravity of the people found guilty. it was deeply distressing to be shown this. this would be the case at any time but the fact it was broadcast at 6 o clock, when children could be around and watching too meant that it went beyond all acceptable levels of disclosure and was not in the public interest. i want the bbc to explain what value, other than their ratings, was there to show this video and hear his distressed voice? totally unnecessary and such disturbing content. your meagre excuse of the content prior to showing was in no way sufficient. i do not feel this should ve been shown at all. we ve had other complaints of late about what some consider excessively graphic detail shown on early evening news bulletins. last month, david fuller was convicted of double murder and scores of offences of abuse. morning. david, it s the police. reporter: after 33 years, he alm
the duke and duchess of cambridge arrive at the new environmental award the earthshot prize which prince william is awarding tonight. newcastle lose to tottenham 3 2 in the first game after the club s take over. i think some of that may feature on sports day. before that. before that. it s newswatch with samira ahmed. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. is it still important to broadcast daily the official statistics on covid cases, deaths and vaccinations? and for the second time in a fortnight, bbc news is accused of encouraging panic buying, this time over a logjam at ports. first, on wednesday, the star trek actor william shatner became the oldest person to go to space as he blasted off aboard the blue origin sub orbital capsule. the 90 year old, who played captainjames t kirk in the original series, took off from the texas desert with three other individuals. mr shatner s trip on the rocket system developed by amazon founderjeff bezos lasted about
surplus my old aston martin, it runs on surplus english white wine. the interview brought this response from a former bbc royal correspondent, peter hunt. we put that point to bbc news, and they told us. a fortnight ago, we discussed the charge made by many of you that the bbc, and other news media, had created queues at the petrol pumps by excessive reporting of fuel shortages an accusation rejected on this programme by the bbc s deputy director of news, jonathan munro. now a similar criticism is being made, following broadcasts such as this on wednesday s news at six. don t panic buy, but to plan ahead for christmas, that is the message to shoppers from a global shipping boss who has warned that a shortage of hgv drivers is having a knock on effect on ports around the uk. felix is the biggest, it has 50,000 containers waiting to be collected, and ships are having to wait for up to ten days to unload. several viewers contacted us about that, and similar coverage elsewhere