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Now, Clive Myrie will be here for the ten o'clock News but now it is

time for news watch. MUSIC Heller and welcome to news

watch with me, on today's programme. His BBC News holding Hillary Clinton

and Donald Trump to the same journalistic standards in this US

presidential election campaign. And does BBC News know how to pronounce

the name of the Italian Prime Minister? First, football jumped

this week from the sports bulletins to the news headlines following a

sting operation by the Daily Telegraph which on Tuesday night

resulted in this. Tonight at ten, a significant error of judgment means

that Sam Allardyce is no longer the England football manager. He had

been in the job for just two months, the FA has terminated his contract

with immediate effect. Following a newspaper report that he had offered

advice on bypassing the FA rules on and play transfers. He had made the

comments to undercover reporters posing as businessmen, and he said

that "Entrapment had one". As was the case with Keith Vaz that we

explored three weeks ago, questions were asked about the legitimacy of

the journalism and the keenness of the BBC to follow up the story. "

This person reported: Brexit and how it is to be delivered

still permeates much of the agenda and on Thursday BBC News heard the

news of an important player on the European stage. The latest European

leader to sound a warning about British expectations is the Italian

Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi and he said it would be impossible, to give

Britain's superior rights. News of the Brexit vote was met with dismay

here, expressed clearly to me by the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

But Italy's Prime Minister is not actually pronounced like that.

Names were also an issue last Friday when one fewer true our attention to

the practice exemplified by this screen grab.

83 million Americans watched the first televised presidential debate

between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, audience figures that most TV

networks could only dream of. Jon Sobel was there among the crowd of

journalists reporting on the debate. Here in the spin room, both sides

are claiming victory as you would expect, Donald Trump has come in to

do his own spinning. He had one question to answer, did he have the

temperament to be the next commander-in-chief, the next

president, on that, maybe the jury is still out. Mr Trump are you

satisfied with how it went? Answers came none. But some news watch

viewers had a question of their own. Brian Watson watched the whole of

the debate live and all three BBC News bulletins the next day and

wondered why there was such a disjuncture between the two. During

the debate, the Matt George of the time was taken up in a very serious

and measured discussion -- the majority of the debate, on trade and

jobs and another large segment consisted of a discussion on gun

crime, particularly in the inner cities and how it could be

controlled. But the count of the debate on the BBC News consisted of

a focus on for example, Hillary Clinton defending her stamina, and

then accusing Donald Trump of living in his own virtual world. And it was

all very petty, whereas the debate as I said was measured and sensible.

So I wonder why that was the case, why the BBC have reported it in that

way? Banks to Brian Watson for recording his views and others made

a different point about the presidential election campaign.

While the foreign editor of BBC News is Andrew Roy and he joins us now.

Let us start with that debate coverage, viewers say that if you

watched the debate, there was lots of serious discussion and the

bulletins did not give you any of that? The debates are more than one

how long and everybody watches the debate and will take something

different way about what they think is the most important and

interesting part of it. Our job is to distil it down to only three

minutes to go into a news bulletin. I'm not surprised that some people

disagree with the elements that we selected for that three-minute

report, but I don't think that you can say that the BBC didn't cover

the serious issues around the debate. In the longer form areas

online and everywhere else we could go into depth, we picked it apart,

we picked it a party in our business coverage as well, the comments they

made about trade. So I think our coverage across the board on the

debate was pretty good and pretty in-depth. White but news bulletins

are a big court part of what the audience get. And if you have

viewers saying that there wasn't any of that? There was quite a big

discussion about TTP and a lot of back and forth in the candidates are

doing what Hillary had said about support of trade deals. In brief, is

there a case to say that if you are going to have a report, let us name

check the issues that were discussed. I have watched it and it

is just the moments of clashes? It is not just the moments of clashes,

the sound bites, you have got to put in, you might have skipped over what

we were saying about the TPP because it was an exchange where they were

getting ugly with each other. The topic was covered, we covered the

fact that they did in some parts of the debate getting too serious

issues. It was also not just the BBC who said it was an extremely

fractious debate, and other broadcasters definitely called it

one way or the other. We reported in many cases, that supporters of Mr

Trump called it a something he had lost including Rudy Giuliani. We did

not necessarily call it ourselves but we did record how it was being

received in America which is the most important part of our

reporting. Do you think there is an issue about some of the language

used to describe Clinton against Trump in these debates. Certainly in

some bulletins I have heard talk about a fight, punches being thrown,

first blood. Is that helpful? I don't know if it is our job about

being helpful about describing such an adversarial event staged for

television. We can soften our language but the reality is, this

has been one of the most fractious US presidential elections anybody

has had to cover, and it has been unpleasant, it has been fractious

and personal, so I think, that if we use adjectives to describe what has

been a pretty tough residential fight, I think that is accurate.

Some viewers feel there is a different issue. "Impartiality

Doesn't mean giving countries as much as fact, the BBC has

struggled". We have tried as much as we can to pin them down on policy,

it is not that easy on either of them called both have made

statements, backtracked, refined the statements. And we have tried to pin

down what each candidate says on particular issues of policy and hold

them to it. And we have got a lot of online explainers trying to show

exactly what each candidate stands for on particular issues. I don't

think we are going just with the circus atmosphere. We do call the

candidates and there were fact checks done throughout the

presidential election, calling them on whether it was true. The more

sophisticated use of it in America was actually live during the debate,

we worry little bit behind on that, but we were calling the candidates

on their fact checking, and we were just letting it twist our coverage.

-- we were not. Finally, television is a visual media but some tell us,

that fetching appropriate pictures can be tortuous. Take this report

that appeared few weeks ago. Lure with politics turned on its head, a

trampoline park seems like the perfect place to come. Swindon voted

for Brexit, but after all of the twists and turns of the last few

weeks, people say what they want most from Mrs May is a bit of

stability. I hope she's going to steady us and put it at rest, it is

not going to be too rocky. STUDIO: There was a rocky reaction to that

from this anonymous caller. They were interviewing people bouncing up

and down on the trampoline while making the most appalling range of

visual metaphors, and all you do is end up cringing. I think really

there should be a fine every time they do it. Donate the proceeds to

charity because it is just getting ridiculous. The idea of a fine might

go down well with steep twist who e-mailed us along similar lines.

Thanks for all of your comments this week. You can share your opinions on

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Twitter, and do have a look at our website. That is all from us, we

will be live to act to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage

again, next. -- next week. Goodbye.