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This week the new Disability Correspondent for BBC News, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to News watch. Coming up this week, with a new | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
correspond and appointed specialising in the area, how should | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
BBC News improve its coverage relating to disability? And Hampden | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Park it, no tie and a crumpled shirt, the present of Newsweek this | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
week. In recent weeks both the BBC director of news and the Director | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
General have vowed to increase the representation of those with | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
disabilities on screen and off, after registers from its governing | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
body. But does it live up to its goal to be the best provider of news | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
for those with a disability? Some viewers have their doubts, such | :00:58. | :01:28. | |
Nicole may be pleased to hear that BBC News now had in place its first | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
disability correspond and, Nikki disability correspond and, Nikki | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Fox. In the weeks then she took up the post she has been busy. Every | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
step of Al is taking is imitating the natural walking pattern. `` | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Valerie. There is a motion sensor just there, which detects four | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
movements and turns them into steps. I had a target before, about 5.5% | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
and you did not meet that target. What makes you think you can reach | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
this one? I want to know how we make a difference, I am less interested | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
on why we haven't done things but what we can do. What I am hoping is | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
with bringing somebody who is going to take a lead on this, someone in | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
charge to make sure people with disabilities can come into the | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
corporation and get looked after when they are here, and the other | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
plans we said today is we will get to 5% target by 2017. I'm hopeful we | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
might even get beyond that. You do not know unless you try, there is | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
always another book to read or film to watch. I nosy to nosy to want to | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
die. The Lords will be debating whether a form like this will be | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
available to those with a terminal illness. Two doctors will have to | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
agree the patient has a condition which gives them six months or less | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
to live and they are of sound mind. You saw her in those reports and | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
here she is in the studio, our disability correspondent. Thank you | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
for coming on. What have the BBC said your role is about and what do | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
you hope to achieve? What I would love to achieve, I would love to get | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
those big and important stories that have something to do with disability | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
mainstream news. We want reports, we want our pieces to be on the six | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
o'clock News, breakfast News and the ten o'clock news. We have a large | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
remit. We want to serve the 20% of the audience that have disability or | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
are affected in some way by disability. Is it just about serving | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
them or about how people with disabilities are represented to the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
general audience? It is both. We have is massive stories coming up. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
We want to get a nice balance, a bit of light and shade. At the same | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
time, as I have done with my career prior to this job, whenever I have | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
done anything to do with disability, I have wanted it to be accessible to | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
everyone. To people who are not disabled as well as those that are. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
User. There are big stories coming up, what are they? `` you said | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
thereafter? There is welfare re`form, the closing of the | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Independent living fund. We are looking into that. We will do a big | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
story on that. Also the changes to education and how they are affecting | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
people with special educational needs. We have loads. I have to keep | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
some of them under my hat. Are their topics and stories that have not | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
been told or are not being told at the moment? Yes. I think this role | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
was created because the BBC were aware they were not necessarily able | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
to serve the disabled audience and this is great, this is what they are | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
doing about it. This is my job, my big responsibility, which I will | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
take very seriously. Some of it is quite practical. There is an effort | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
by broadcasters to update the language relating to disability, the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
issue of language, is it still an issue? It can be. I have been | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
disabled all my life and I have a disabled sister. Even I sometimes | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
get the language wrong. Luckily, we have had a very positive way to | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
response from the pieces that have gone out. I have been very aware | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
there was one time when I said disabled people rather than people | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
with disabilities, it was just a slip. I did not mean to say it. You | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
can get a bit hung up on language. It is very important for me, in my | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
job, I have to get it right, it is what I'm paid to do. At the same | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
time, there is no need to be too hung up on it. At the same time, you | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
have to try and get it right. I certainly do. How do you see | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
yourself? A campaign or a spokesperson in any way? I see | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
myself as a correspond on, just like every other correspondence. Like | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
everyone I work within Salford. I see myself as a correspondent and | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
journalist. My specialist area is disability. I do have the unique | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
perspective because I am disabled and always has been. Of course, I | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
have that little bit of extra something to to the role will stop I | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
want to do as good a job as every other correspondence. This is my | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
specialist area, just like our 's is the sum. Some people would say there | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
can be some serious politics around certain aspects of disability | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
issues. Sometimes there may be a story where there is an argument | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
about doing adaptations. In that kind of situation, would you be | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
happy about giving both sides of the story equal prominence? Absolutely, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
it is something I did for my radio documentary. I spoke about how my | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
dad has a small business and he might not necessarily be able to | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
afford to employ somebody with a disability. 100%. That is the job of | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
a journalist, you have to give both sides. I do not have an agenda, but | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
I have a unique perspective of what it is like to be disabled. I have | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
great ideas and I have always had great ideas, she says, that is a bit | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
vain. I have lots of ideas I want to bring. And lots of areas I want to | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
cover. Thank you. Pleasure. Let us know your thoughts on the coverage | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
of disability issues or an any aspect of BBC News. Details of how | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
to contact us at the end of the programme. Now for some of your | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
other concerns, starting with the coverage of the Ebola outbreak, a | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
disease with a high mortality rate. Our correspondence reports from | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Guinea. A few days ago health workers could not get into this | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
village, but they have made a breakthrough here today. People are | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
bringing out their sick relatives and agreeing to be checked over the | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
symptoms of Ebola. That raised the question to several viewers. | :08:09. | :08:31. | |
There is a common dilemma when news covers a big sporting event, around | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
how much to focus on the winners whether they come from, and how much | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
on the performance of any of the UK teams, especially when the | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Commonwealth Games are being held in Glasgow. Just a few weeks before | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Scotland's highly contested referendum on independence. On | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
Thursday night, a Scottish athlete finished second in the hurdles. Not | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
the medal she would have wanted, but based or have one to celebrate. Mike | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Ellis from Preston was among those who felt they detected a trend in | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
news reporting of the Commonwealth Games. He said: | :09:14. | :09:40. | |
Finally, since Jeremy Paxman left Newsnight a number of different | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
people have hosted the show and will continue to do so over the summer | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
before Evan Davis takes up his place as the lead presenter. On Wednesday | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
it was Robert Preston's term. After huffing and puffing the European | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Union has responded to the shooting down of the Malaysian airlines | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
flight, moving to stage three sanctions against Russia. The | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
appearance of the BBC's economic correspond and caused a bit of the | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
staff or stop should he have had his hand in his pocket at the start of | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
the show? What about the lack of a tie and had that shirt seen an IM | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
recently? `` iron recently. Many approved of the debutant's the | :10:22. | :10:45. | |
performance. On that positive note, we leave you | :10:46. | :10:57. | |
for our summer break. We will be back in September, but in the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
meantime share your opinions on BBC News and current affairs. They will | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
be read and heard and will feature on the programme when we return. | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
You can also have a look at our website. If you miss us in the next | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
month you can watch any additions and discussions of the programme | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
from the past year. That is all from us, have a good month and join us | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
again in September. Hello, keep your eye on the forecast | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
over the next few days, a lot going on, much of it wet. Brain pushing | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
into southwestern parts of England and Wales over the next few hours. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
`` rain. Most of the action will be further west, moving northwards as | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
we go through the early | :11:54. | :11:54. |