:00:07. > :00:15.week, was the news coverage of Andy Murray 's Wimbledon victory over the
:00:15. > :00:20.top? Welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira
:00:20. > :00:26.Ahmed. Game, set and match to Murray, but did BBC News think
:00:26. > :00:31.tennis was the only game in town? Jeremy Bowen is recovering after
:00:31. > :00:36.being injured while reporting on the protests in Egypt's. Our
:00:36. > :00:40.journalistic risks worth taking? And she says one sentence, he says
:00:40. > :00:49.another, is it time to end the verbal ping-pong between male and
:00:49. > :00:54.female presenters? No doubt about the main news last
:00:54. > :01:03.Sunday. Andy Murray did not just win the Wimbledon men's angles, but in
:01:03. > :01:08.making our world history as well. It was the moment 77 years of
:01:08. > :01:14.waiting ended in wonder. Andy Murray, Wimbledon to the, the words
:01:14. > :01:19.he and the nation had yearned for so much for so long.
:01:19. > :01:24.The scale of the news coverage led to some viewers reacting in a way
:01:24. > :01:31.articulated by this anonymous phone call. I came in to watch the news at
:01:31. > :01:36.ten o'clock, a 15 minute programme and so far we have had six minutes
:01:36. > :01:43.of Andy Murray out of a 15 minute bulletin. How much Andy Murray do we
:01:43. > :01:47.need? That was the end of a fortnight in which some felt BBC
:01:47. > :01:50.television was dominated by tennis, leading to hundreds of complaints.
:01:50. > :02:00.An e-mail from James Taylor picked up on the point we mentioned last
:02:00. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:34.thought the weekend sports news coverage was a little bit tennis
:02:34. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :03:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 53 seconds
:03:27. > :03:31.head of sports news. Richard, or we will talk about Wimbledon to start
:03:31. > :03:36.with, it was obviously a huge story, Andy Murray winning the men's
:03:36. > :03:42.singles, but it was half of last Sunday 's evening News, was that not
:03:42. > :03:47.excessive? It was one of those stories that transcended sport.
:03:47. > :03:52.was a major cultural event in British social life. The first time
:03:52. > :03:56.we have had a British men's singles champion for 77 years, something
:03:56. > :04:02.talked about around the nation. Long. It was a highly significant
:04:02. > :04:06.event, you know, I think that we always have to be careful about
:04:06. > :04:10.getting too excited about sport and remembering where our place is in
:04:10. > :04:15.the general scheme of things, but it was a significant news event, as
:04:15. > :04:19.well as a sports news event. I think part of concern is that, these
:04:19. > :04:24.days, you can watch the match if you want to, there are highlights that
:04:25. > :04:29.would have been on later that link if you did miss it and in between
:04:29. > :04:32.the news should have just reported it, but not let it take over the
:04:32. > :04:38.programme to the extent it did. Plenty of people did not care about
:04:38. > :04:43.tennis. We are aware that there is always a section of the audience who
:04:43. > :04:48.are quite turned off, they are not sports fans, what is interesting is
:04:48. > :04:52.the viewing figures for the BBC News Channel on Sunday after Murray had
:04:52. > :04:58.one, when nearly double what they normally wear. It does seem that the
:04:58. > :05:04.news audience were interested in this story. Having you on business
:05:04. > :05:08.the opportunity to look at an issue, which is whether there is a
:05:08. > :05:12.bias to certain sports and BBC sports coverage. Take the example of
:05:12. > :05:18.the victory of the British and Irish Lions in Australia, the day before
:05:18. > :05:23.Andy Murray 's victory. There was no mention on Sunday morning.
:05:23. > :05:28.We covered the British and Irish Lions tour extensively. We had a
:05:28. > :05:33.reporter there for the entire tour. Dan row did countless lives into the
:05:33. > :05:39.breakfast programme, into regional news, into the news channel, we did
:05:39. > :05:44.reports on network TV news, so I think we gave the British and Irish
:05:44. > :05:51.Lions a significant amount of coverage. More than any other Lions
:05:51. > :05:55.tour I can remember. Some people wonder if BBC have televising rights
:05:55. > :06:01.to rugby and cricket in the way they do Wimbledon? Maybe that is why it
:06:01. > :06:05.gets more news coverage? It is true that with events that BBC sport has
:06:05. > :06:09.the rights to, we are able to show more action on the news. There is a
:06:09. > :06:13.limit to how much we can show of events that we do not have the
:06:13. > :06:17.television rights to. Again, we would never make an editorial
:06:17. > :06:21.decision based on whether we have the rights to something or not. The
:06:21. > :06:25.Ashes, we will do extensive coverage. We know that a lot of
:06:25. > :06:30.viewers down to BBC News see the wicket during the Ashes and we do
:06:30. > :06:35.not have the TV rights to it. That'll have no impact on how much
:06:36. > :06:39.coverage we give the event. football season will be starting up
:06:39. > :06:46.again and some will be delighted and some horrified, will you rethink its
:06:46. > :06:51.prominence? Premier league football is extremely popular with them our
:06:51. > :06:54.audience. As I said before, we are careful, we do not want it to
:06:54. > :07:02.dominate and swamp everything. We have a responsibility to cover a
:07:02. > :07:07.wide range of sport. Thank you so much.
:07:07. > :07:12.Letters know your thoughts on that or any aspect of BBC News. Details
:07:12. > :07:16.of how to contact us at the end of the programme. Now for more of your
:07:16. > :07:21.reactions, starting with Egypt's weather situation remains volatile
:07:21. > :07:27.and confused. It is dangerous for journalists and other staff, as was
:07:27. > :07:31.made clear in Jeremy Bowen 's report from Cairo last Friday. The army
:07:31. > :07:36.fired tear gas and shotguns into the crowd, the BBC team was in a group
:07:36. > :07:40.hit by shotgun pellets. There are powerful forces against
:07:40. > :07:45.each other in this country. On one hand, the Muslim brotherhood with
:07:45. > :07:50.deep roots in the community, on the other, the Army seized control of
:07:50. > :07:54.the country and wants to hold it. Unless they can channel all of this
:07:54. > :07:59.into political action and not street protest, it is a recipe for more
:08:00. > :08:04.violence. Since then, journalists from ITN,
:08:05. > :08:08.CNN and Al Jazeera have been rounded up and detained by the Egyptian
:08:08. > :08:14.authorities and Jeremy Bowen has had a successful operation to remove
:08:14. > :08:24.shotgun poets from his head. -- shotgun pellets. He received praise
:08:24. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:05.Henley-on-Thames had a different place of view is a Leo Lee Rigby who
:09:05. > :09:10.was killed in May. The service began with a silent tribute.
:09:10. > :09:16.Quiet in the centre of Bury as you join us for the special coverage.
:09:16. > :09:26.Our correspondence is there at the church.
:09:26. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:33.Yes, and you can see the mood now in the crowd here. One of quiet
:09:33. > :09:43.reflection. Daniel Glass Ball was one of the
:09:43. > :10:02.
:10:03. > :10:07.Human Rights ruled that life sentences given to Jeremy Bamber and
:10:07. > :10:11.two other convicted killers breached human rights. The BBC News website
:10:11. > :10:15.reported the opposite, headlining its article, UK killer is not
:10:15. > :10:18.entitled to life sentence review. A spokesman later rip apologise for
:10:18. > :10:24.the mistake saying that previous court judgement was erroneously
:10:24. > :10:34.entered into the system and that this Dory was updated as soon as it
:10:34. > :10:40.
:10:40. > :10:44.was recognised. Robert Feal-Martinez and breakfast are presented by two
:10:44. > :10:54.people, often a man and a woman. This gives rise to a habit which
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:11:16. > :11:19.this week about BBC News and current affairs, positive and negative. If