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Fillon, and he's family receiving payments. He denies it. Tempi, Rita

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chakra Barty is here with a full round-up of the day 's news, first

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it is on his watch. And there and welcome to news watch

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with me Samira Ahmed. On this programme, is BBC News doing deals

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with celebrities? She gets to talk about their new film, they get to

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ask about the divorce. It was a very difficult time, and, we are a

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family. And we will always be a family. But first has stormed Doris

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battered many parts of the UK on Thursday, it could only mean one

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thing for BBC news reporters, you know what is coming next. Here's

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Alison Freeman. We saw you earlier almost unable to stand up, it

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doesn't look much better now? It isn't Rita, we have just watched

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this storm unfold throughout the morning, as the wind has become more

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and more powerful. It is so strong at the moment I can't look into it,

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and the foam that has been blown from the seat is a bit more like

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being in a blizzard. But was that piece of broadcasting and location

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necessary, why is also? Carol J left us this message. I'm sure that the

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BBC will say that we do not put our reporters in danger and that she is

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OK. Not everyone however, may be as responsible, I use that term likely,

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as the BBC. They may think, let us go and stand on Blackpool and they

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get blown over and hurt even worse cirrus to hurt or killed and will

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the BBC take responsibility? There is no need to have that woman

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standing in that position, encouraging others to think it is OK

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because it isn't. Newspeak is radio one's News service targeting 16 to

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29-year-olds, story is true on ordinary members of the public doing

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something on social media that quickly get picked up and printed

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widely. This week it is a story about a 20-year-old American student

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called Nick who graded and critiqued a break-up letter from a ex-friend

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he posted it on social media where it went viral. Newspeak republished

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his tweet showing the letter. A number of people complained about

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the invasion of a young woman's Prevacid, including somebody who

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said it was aiding the online harassment. And the BBC had

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published it purely for entertainment.

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Well we asked Newspeak for a response and this is what they told

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us: -- Newsbeat. Now on Sunday night the News at ten

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reported as one of its headline stories on a new film about

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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime in 1970s which is being released later

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this year on Netflix. It might not sound like obvious mainstream news

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material but its inclusion in the bulletin may have sung to do with

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the identity of its direct, Jolie. What happened to its people was not

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properly understood. And not just for the world but for the people of

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the country, I felt that I wanted them to be able to reflect on its.

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Angelina Jolie is keen to tell the story and focus on this country and

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its past but it has been difficult to keep the spotlight off her own

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personal life. Wii nine incident occurred the undead to your

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separation, also know that you haven't said anything about this. --

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we know that an incident occurred about your separation. Only that, I

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don't want to say very much about that. Except to say it was a very

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difficult time, and we are a family. That interview also ran the

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following day on breakfast and a news channel featured on the news

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website, and as part of a documentary shown on BBC world News.

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The driving force behind it was Julie Angus, the deputy director of

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the BBC World Service. He joins us now. First, can you tell us how did

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you get that Angelina Jolie interview? Yes of course, we decided

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that it would be editorially interesting and important to take

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the advantage of being able to go to Cambodia and make a feature about

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the film. And it is good that you explained that this is part of a

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longer documentary, one of the important things to bear in mind

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about this piece is that we are going to be producing a 23 minute

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documentary which will run on the BBC world News Channel and on a news

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channel here in the UK and indeed a radio documentary. So what we did

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was gather quite a lot of material and we cut down some of it,

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broadcast ahead of time. So that, the audiences who watch those main

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bulletins on BBC One, would see the news piece. Just to be clear,

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getting that interview with Angelina Jolie, were their deals or

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conditions? Their word, we had done some work with her last year, I

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think she trusts the BBC to deal with the material in the film

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sensitively and proportionately. We were able to agree with her that we

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would go and get some access to the film and its premiere which we felt

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would be of value to the audiences and would be of interest to the

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audiences and what we have seen from the statistics and the viewing

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figures and the online figures have confirmed that. What did you object

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to about this item? Mainly because it is not news. It is as simple as

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that. This actually was a shameless piece of Hollywood PR. It consisted

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of puff about the film, it was a long film of Pol Pot which is 40 or

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50 years old, and then the most ludicrous so-called exclusive

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interview, which reminded me of a levitation seen from absolutely

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fabulous in which he said absolutely nothing. But this was trailed across

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the BBC, endlessly. It was headlined, it was the second or

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third most important in the world according to the running order of

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the BBC News. Frankly you could hardly have made more fuss if it was

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the second coming. A lot of people would say that it would not have

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been done without her celebrity at all? I think her involvement in the

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film is certainly passed of the news story. Certainly the ones have been

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made about the genocide but one of the important things about this film

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is that her involvement meant, that a major international personality

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was investing the time and the effort to make a Cambodian language

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film with Cambodian actors, and for the first time the whole machinery

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of the Cambodian government including the king who attended the

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premiere was very publicly being associated with it and we felt

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because we don't get to go to Cambodia very often, that actually

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that told us something editorially interesting about how other

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countries coming to terms with what has happened in the past. Of course

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her presence was part of the story. But the BBC always makes a material

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across the wide range of subject areas. I think what people ought to

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see is authoritative and well-informed views. Angelina Jolie

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may well be that, but we can all see from America, the problem with

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pandering the way that you did with some of the most it's equally as

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questioning I have seen since the 1950s, to celebrities. And celebrity

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views are worth no more than yours or mine frankly. What did you make

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of the fact that the headline of the story was about the marriage

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breakdown? She did and said anything about it, did she? By the way, that

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is none of our business. We do know and only a fool would think

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otherwise, that as and when she makes her announcement about that,

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it will be done through the Hollywood PR machine and anyone who

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thinks she's going to answer a question on the BBC, about that is a

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fool. People watching, say that if this was about the film crews and

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the Khmer Rouge, why was the headline on News at ten about her

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marriage? If you look at how we presented the material right across

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the BBC will see clearly that we presented the story in the context

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of the film. But in terms of the News at ten what people were

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watching West up but if you look at the package, you have got a 3.5

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minute piece, of which the 45 seconds is what happened in her

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family. We understand that people have a broad range of interest about

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this story and ways of getting into this story and we think we have

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presented this material responsibly and I'm very sorry that might is not

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happy with it, I would hamper I would encourage him to watch the

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long for material, that we produced as part of this trip because when

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you have seen that, it is part of a fairer basis of judging the

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totality. You are emphasising that, the BBC sold the whole exclusive on

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the fact that you have got this celebrity angle, Angelina Jolie and

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her marriage break-up and the comment on it however little that

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was. That's what seems very odd to viewers like Mike. I don't think

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that is fair, if you look right across the BBC News website, and the

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two national channels and throughout its coverage, I think that we have

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been very clear about headlining the film, the issues about Cambodia and

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the unusual access. The unusual parts of the Cambodian story. I

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think we have handled it responsibly but we are not going to cover up the

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fact that there was some interest for the public in what she had to

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say about this enormous international news stories. Are you

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satisfied with what you have heard? No, and the fact of the matter is

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that people don't have the time and inclination, the fact of the matter

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was that it was headlined across the BBC as an exclusive interview about

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her marriage breakdown. As if anybody was interested in that,

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people are clearly, but she said absolutely nothing about it, and

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frankly I thought it was a fiasco. We will have to leave it there,

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thank you very much. Finally Steve Hewlett died on Monday was an

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occasional presenter and very welcome guest on this programme. He

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had a long and varied programme with production and executive roles, on

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the BBC and Channel 4 and ITV, he was editor of panorama at the time

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of its famous interview with Princess Diana in 1995 and he became

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a sought-after media commentator both on camera and in print and he

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presented Radio 4's media show from its launch in 2008. Over the past

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few months he described the experience of having cancer in a

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moving series of radio interviews. Steve will be much missed by family,

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friends and colleagues and by news watch viewers such as Paul Nelson

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who wrote to us on Monday. "So Sad, to hear of his passing. I shall

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never forget his candid interviews. "

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Thank you for all of your comments this week. If you want to share your

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