:00:00. > :00:00.the waterfalls and the others went down with them. At 10pm we will have
:00:00. > :00:10.a full round-up of the day 's news. Before that it is time for News
:00:11. > :00:14.The Prime Minister emerges from meetings in Brussels
:00:15. > :00:20.Why didn't BBC viewers get to hear all of what he had to say?
:00:21. > :00:23.And we have seen and heard a lot about Boris Johnson over
:00:24. > :00:27.Too much, and is it a sign of things to come
:00:28. > :00:35.So, the shuttle diplomacy is over and the exhausting negotiations
:00:36. > :00:39.After all the build-up, the deal was done.
:00:40. > :00:43.As the BBC political editor spoke from Downing Street during last
:00:44. > :00:45.Friday's News at Ten, the Prime Minister was eagerly
:00:46. > :00:49.anticipated by the waiting media in Brussels.
:00:50. > :00:52.If we think back to the reaction of many people round the European Union
:00:53. > :00:55.when he embarked on this adventure, what some people would
:00:56. > :00:59.He faced significant criticism, some of it public, some
:01:00. > :01:10.Many people believed he was doing it for his own...
:01:11. > :01:13.I am going to interrupt you because we can go straight
:01:14. > :01:17.I will fly back to London tonight and update the Cabinet
:01:18. > :01:22.David Cameron went on to outline the terms of the deal
:01:23. > :01:30.Just four and a half minutes into his statement and this...
:01:31. > :01:33.We will leave David Cameron, as he continues to give details
:01:34. > :01:37.of a deal that has been agreed unanimously in Brussels tonight.
:01:38. > :01:40.Let's go back to Downing Street and Laura.
:01:41. > :01:46.From what you have heard, has he got enough?
:01:47. > :01:54.In the coming months there will be intensely fierce scrutiny
:01:55. > :01:56.on everything apart what David Cameron has only just
:01:57. > :02:06.The programme continued with more analysis from Laura,
:02:07. > :02:08.along with reports from her on the leave campaign.
:02:09. > :02:11.Are you watching a Prime Minister battling for Britain?
:02:12. > :02:13.Mark Easton canvassing opinions of voters in a golf club bar,
:02:14. > :02:16.all of it outdated by the Prime Minister's statement.
:02:17. > :02:21.The decision not to stick with live coverage of the Prime Minister's
:02:22. > :02:23.statement, as Sky News did, met with a wedding ring response
:02:24. > :02:29.from more than 100 viewers who contacted us.
:02:30. > :02:48.Some strong views there. Let's explore that decision with Hilary
:02:49. > :02:52.O'Neil from ABC News at ten and our view at Gareth Glover. Talk us
:02:53. > :03:00.through what you felt as you were watching that bulletin. For the
:03:01. > :03:04.fortnight before the BBC, like every other news programme, had made such
:03:05. > :03:08.a huge deal what David Cameron was going through and the negotiations
:03:09. > :03:13.he was carrying out, that the results were really momentous for
:03:14. > :03:17.the country. When he started speaking, in fact even my young
:03:18. > :03:24.adult children in the house actually stopped what they were doing, and
:03:25. > :03:29.started listening intently, wanting to know what he had actually found
:03:30. > :03:35.out. To my horror, things suddenly changed. We are suddenly shipped off
:03:36. > :03:40.to Downing Street to talk to a correspondence who had clearly been
:03:41. > :03:45.put there. It felt as if the words of the correspondent who had no idea
:03:46. > :03:49.what was being said in David Cameron's comments at that moment
:03:50. > :03:53.and what he was going to say yet, then that was more important to the
:03:54. > :03:59.BBC than actually hearing David Cameron's words. Hillary, it is a
:04:00. > :04:03.news programme, here was some news, and you cut away from it for
:04:04. > :04:10.analysis on stuff that we didn't yet know about fully. It was a fantastic
:04:11. > :04:14.new stay and it's quite unusual for the ten o'clock news to have
:04:15. > :04:18.breaking news in that way. It's also very important for us to not just
:04:19. > :04:27.put one-sided of opinion on to a bulletin.
:04:28. > :04:36.We took David Cameron's statement. He is a professional. If you look
:04:37. > :04:41.back at what he's said, the first one minute 15 summed up the key
:04:42. > :04:45.deals he had done. He went into quite a lot of detail about the
:04:46. > :04:49.first of the many points he was going on to make. If we had stayed
:04:50. > :04:56.with the whole of the speech, it would have outlasted the Ten O'Clock
:04:57. > :05:01.News. It was 20 minutes. You could have run a bit more. You could have
:05:02. > :05:04.dropped some of the EU packages. I would have to disagree with you on
:05:05. > :05:09.both of those points. What he was setting out to do is go through each
:05:10. > :05:15.of the points in turn. By the time we got to the relevance to the
:05:16. > :05:19.energy market, which is very important, it was clear each point
:05:20. > :05:25.he was going to give was more details. What we needed to do in
:05:26. > :05:30.terms of balance, was to put another point of view and get some balance
:05:31. > :05:37.of opinion into the programme. I know that Gareth has said in his
:05:38. > :05:43.original e-mail that David Cameron was not a political speech but it
:05:44. > :05:50.was. It was news. What do you make of Hillary's explanation? As far as
:05:51. > :05:53.I am concerned it was and a political speech, a cross-party
:05:54. > :05:58.discussion full stop it was for the country to make a decision. David
:05:59. > :06:03.Cameron is going to make his point. He has to begin on that opportunity
:06:04. > :06:05.to make his point and for people to come back with analysis of those
:06:06. > :06:13.points and come up with sensible discussion. Beyond some of the other
:06:14. > :06:18.pieces, they were out of date by what had been said. Let's talk also
:06:19. > :06:22.about the fact that people did want to watch they were not told they
:06:23. > :06:26.could watch it live. It was being streamed elsewhere. It was being
:06:27. > :06:40.streamed. We should have lacked earlier. They could have watched it
:06:41. > :06:44.live. You should have said that. I do have to just go back to this
:06:45. > :06:48.point about whether or not it was a political speech and in what
:06:49. > :06:52.circumstances you say that the Prime Minister has the right to hold the
:06:53. > :06:56.floor for an entire bulletin. When he has just announced an EU deal the
:06:57. > :07:01.whole nation has been voting for, they might say, yes, I would quite
:07:02. > :07:05.like to hear what he have to say. It is not an apolitical thinkers and he
:07:06. > :07:09.is putting one side of an argument. The whole of the nation gets to vote
:07:10. > :07:15.will stop Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary had just indicated that
:07:16. > :07:23.day he was not going... My point is that you could not let David Cameron
:07:24. > :07:28.had 20 minutes of the BBC News at ten and not put the counter. We
:07:29. > :07:32.would have failed. This is a key point. It would have been biased to
:07:33. > :07:36.have let David Cameron had 20 minutes of the news at ten.
:07:37. > :07:41.Personally I do not agree with that. At the end of the day I do believe
:07:42. > :07:44.it was an apolitical speech. At the end of the day he was trying to
:07:45. > :07:52.establish his point about what went on. It has not been known for the
:07:53. > :07:54.news to extend in the past. We will have to leave it there. Thank you
:07:55. > :08:04.both. Before we leave the EU referendum
:08:05. > :08:07.this week let's mention one other aspect of the coverage that has
:08:08. > :08:12.caught your attention for the bid is what some feel to be an excessive
:08:13. > :08:15.focus on the personalities involved in the campaign. One personality in
:08:16. > :08:22.particular, especially over the course of last weekend. How are you
:08:23. > :08:26.doing? Could he join Mr Gove? As soon as the Cabinet has met,
:08:27. > :08:32.ministers are allowed to go public if they want to leave the EU. Will
:08:33. > :08:36.Boris Johnson become an official out? This time tomorrow night we
:08:37. > :08:42.will know whether or not Boris Johnson has decided to campaign to
:08:43. > :08:46.leave the EU. A very good evening to you. After days of speculation, the
:08:47. > :08:51.Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced he will back the campaign
:08:52. > :08:58.for the UK to leave the European Union. Speculation about what the
:08:59. > :09:02.decision by Boris Johnson might mean for his relationship with the Prime
:09:03. > :09:06.Minister, his future, and that of the Conservative Party. It irritated
:09:07. > :09:13.some viewers. I am totally annoyed about the fact they are reporting
:09:14. > :09:23.about whether Boris Johnson is going to do this or that. It is the fate
:09:24. > :09:28.of the country back is at stake, not individual people. Thank you. We
:09:29. > :09:31.hope to discuss the Boris effect and the balance of personalities and
:09:32. > :09:37.issues in EU referendum coverage on a future edition of news watch.
:09:38. > :09:41.Among other subjects, the News the BBC is to start trialling a new
:09:42. > :09:45.hour-long news programme at six o'clock in Scotland. This could lead
:09:46. > :09:50.to Scottish viewers have on their own dedicated news at six
:09:51. > :09:54.permanently. That angered hundreds, including Richard Andrews. He
:09:55. > :10:03.wrote... This is parochial and panders to the separatists. We
:10:04. > :10:06.already have Scottish News at 630. I would like to retain the UK News at
:10:07. > :10:13.six. Thursday's publication into the report about Jimmy Savile and the
:10:14. > :10:20.BBC raised extensive coverage. This from Patricia Stoner. Some weeks ago
:10:21. > :10:24.we were treated to images of this evil predator on the news. You ran
:10:25. > :10:27.an item with thoughtful and pertinent comments. I was foolish
:10:28. > :10:31.enough to think the BBC had taken our thoughts on board. Today the
:10:32. > :10:35.story was resurrected with images of Jimmy Savile. One might have been
:10:36. > :10:40.access to pull in the name of news reporting. Two would have been
:10:41. > :10:44.stretching it. I watch with mounting disbelief as image after image of
:10:45. > :10:57.the man was shown. In one he was half naked. I ran the item back and
:10:58. > :10:59.there were 16 separate images. Yours in utter disbelief. Wednesday
:11:00. > :11:02.brought news that Aston Martin is to build its new luxury car in south
:11:03. > :11:07.Wales. The news at 602 its report with pictures of the best-known
:11:08. > :11:14.Aston Martin driver there is. Still to come: Bond's favourite motoring
:11:15. > :11:19.brand. The new model is to be built in south Wales. Spotted the problem?
:11:20. > :11:23.A number of motoring enthusiastic, including Kevin O'Keefe, who
:11:24. > :11:27.described herself slightly bemused by the trailer for the piece about
:11:28. > :11:31.Aston Martin. The voice-over described it as being Bond's
:11:32. > :11:39.favourite motoring brand. Sean Connery was driving a Sunbeam Alpine
:11:40. > :11:43.in the clip. Thank you for all of your comments this week if you want
:11:44. > :11:50.to share your opinions on BBC News and current affairs or appear on the
:11:51. > :11:59.programme, you can call us. Or e-mail. You can find us on Twitter
:12:00. > :12:04.and do have a look at the website. That is all from us. We will be back
:12:05. > :12:06.to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage again next week. Goodbye.