:00:00. > :00:00.At ten o'clock, Rita will be here with a full round-up of the day's
:00:00. > :00:10.news, but first, Newswatch. Hello, and welcome to Newswatch
:00:11. > :00:12.with me, Samira Ahmed. Coming up, how to be impartial
:00:13. > :00:15.and objective in reporting an issue as emotive as the closure
:00:16. > :00:20.of the Calais migrants' camp. And in the days of catch-up viewing,
:00:21. > :00:23.should the News at Ten have done a sports-style spoiler warning
:00:24. > :00:25.about the winner of First, it took a long time to arrive
:00:26. > :00:36.but, when the decision came from the government to support
:00:37. > :00:39.an expansion of Heathrow Airport, it was reported and discussed
:00:40. > :00:44.extensively on BBC News. Now, a third runway here at Heathrow
:00:45. > :00:47.is a long way away from being Political, planning,
:00:48. > :00:51.legal, environmental opposition is inevitable
:00:52. > :00:54.in the coming months but, in arriving at today's decision,
:00:55. > :00:58.they've achieved what previous But was the scale of the coverage
:00:59. > :01:03.on BBC News warranted? Since it started to hit the news
:01:04. > :01:26.headlines in the summer of last year, the issue of how to treat
:01:27. > :01:29.the huge number of migrants travelling into and across Europe
:01:30. > :01:33.has proved a difficult one This week, it again attracted
:01:34. > :01:37.the attention of Newswatch viewers with the clearing of the so-called
:01:38. > :01:41.Jungle camp in Calais and the transportation of over 200
:01:42. > :01:45.minors from there into the UK. Here are clips from two reports
:01:46. > :01:48.shown on Monday night's bulletins from John Kay in Devon, and first,
:01:49. > :01:53.Lucy Williamson in Calais. Among those joining the queues today
:01:54. > :01:56.were four siblings from Afghanistan, clinging
:01:57. > :02:01.to an English-speaking friend. Their mother had asked him to take
:02:02. > :02:04.her children and make their case Four small lives among the thousands
:02:05. > :02:11.saying goodbye to Calais, unsure of what the future
:02:12. > :02:14.has in store. We are a local, small,
:02:15. > :02:17.close-knit community But this man told me many locals
:02:18. > :02:22.are angry that the child migrants have been brought
:02:23. > :02:27.here without public consultation. We can't look after our own so why
:02:28. > :02:34.look after everybody else? Apparently, they won't be
:02:35. > :02:37.here for very long, they will be Wednesday, I was told,
:02:38. > :02:44.but that's two days too long. That view and its appearance on BBC
:02:45. > :03:21.news concerned some viewers. But most of those who contacted us
:03:22. > :03:26.felt the BBC was being overly sympathetic towards the migrants.
:03:27. > :04:10.One describing himself as a disillusioned proud Brit e-mailed...
:04:11. > :04:18.Toby Castle is with me now. The majority of the comments that we got
:04:19. > :04:23.is that the BBC has an instinctive liberal bias on the side of
:04:24. > :04:29.migrants, including economic migrants. Your queue was proved that
:04:30. > :04:35.there are two very differing views of the BBC's coverage and that
:04:36. > :04:41.reflects the fact we're getting it right. We have a responsibility to
:04:42. > :04:45.provide balanced coverage of the very pop complicated story, to give
:04:46. > :04:51.our viewers the context around what is going on by providing eyewitness
:04:52. > :04:55.journalism on the ground. The eyewitness stuff is part of what
:04:56. > :05:00.people are concerned about. A lot of coverage they feel is very personal
:05:01. > :05:08.stories. Especially with young children. But we do not happen. Ray.
:05:09. > :05:12.A handful of cases may simplify the bigger issue or the dealing with the
:05:13. > :05:20.bigger political issue. It is a story which you could say is easy to
:05:21. > :05:25.oversimplify. In our coverage and what we have done across television,
:05:26. > :05:32.radio and online, it is an attempt to pick up personal stories and on
:05:33. > :05:35.occasion challenged the stories and ask individuals questions about the
:05:36. > :05:40.decisions they have made and how they ended up in the camp in Calais
:05:41. > :05:44.and their decisions not to be resettled around France and that
:05:45. > :05:50.they want to stay and still attempt to get across the channel into the
:05:51. > :05:54.UK. The Home Office are somebody else we want to challenge. We want
:05:55. > :06:00.to challenge one of your comments of one of your viewers who was
:06:01. > :06:04.criticising us listening to the refugee support groups and
:06:05. > :06:08.charities. I would say, if you are watching and listening to our
:06:09. > :06:12.coverage, we have challenge them on some of their views and some of
:06:13. > :06:21.their language has been very emotive and strong. We have challenged that.
:06:22. > :06:26.What you have highlighted there is how divided viewer reaction is on
:06:27. > :06:30.this. People either feel BBC challenges to emotional and
:06:31. > :06:34.unquestioning, and those who feel worried about xenophobia attitudes
:06:35. > :06:39.getting airtime. It is a line we have to talk about and consider.
:06:40. > :06:45.Editorial discussions within programmes in output and
:06:46. > :06:49.correspondence on the ground. It is healthy for a newsroom in editorial
:06:50. > :06:57.meetings to have conversations about the way we are covering stories and
:06:58. > :07:02.the use of language, how we refer to unaccompanied minors, we use that
:07:03. > :07:09.term in some of our reporting, and sometimes we hear about NGOs talking
:07:10. > :07:13.about children. But then you have government MPs referring to these
:07:14. > :07:17.individuals as, they did not look like children. Is there a knee jerk
:07:18. > :07:25.liberal reaction to that, to want to the underside of being generous? We
:07:26. > :07:31.have got to question all sides. We have to be the independent observer
:07:32. > :07:35.in this and challenge each group. I think we have talked in editorial
:07:36. > :07:41.meetings about challenging those that have found themselves in the
:07:42. > :07:45.camp. But the government are at the moment having to challenge those
:07:46. > :07:51.individuals and checking their status and what they are telling
:07:52. > :07:57.them. We're challenging the government. On our audience's Behar.
:07:58. > :08:00.The biggest row was led by newspapers demanding dental checks
:08:01. > :08:06.because of claims of adult men claiming to be child refugees. How
:08:07. > :08:11.did the BBC approach that issue? The MP that raised dental checks, those
:08:12. > :08:16.were public comments. Some of the images we saw on the front page of
:08:17. > :08:21.the newspapers showed individuals that, on the face of it, did not
:08:22. > :08:28.look like children. I think in our coverage, we looked at that, we
:08:29. > :08:33.spoke to David Davis, and we did question those groups and the
:08:34. > :08:37.government on something that our audience, your comments there,
:08:38. > :08:43.referred specifically to, that there are individuals that may be taking
:08:44. > :08:53.advantage of our hospitality and we need to challenge everybody involved
:08:54. > :08:58.in the story on that. Do let us know your thoughts on the BBC's coverage
:08:59. > :09:05.of migration or any aspect of BBC News. The highlight of many people's
:09:06. > :09:09.television viewing this week came on BBC One on Wednesday night and for
:09:10. > :09:18.those who have not watched the Great British Bake Off, a headline gave
:09:19. > :09:22.away the result. Candies! The Baker from Bedfordshire wins the Crown in
:09:23. > :09:28.the final Great British Bake Off on the BBC. Although the BBC's news
:09:29. > :09:31.website and breakfast included spoiler alerts for those who had not
:09:32. > :09:34.watched the programme and did not want to know who had won, that
:09:35. > :10:04.headline level the scores of you was frustrated and angry.
:10:05. > :10:10.With a week and a half to go into the presidential election in the
:10:11. > :10:14.United States, opinion polls suggest Hillary Clinton is pulling away from
:10:15. > :10:20.Donald Trump with all other candidates trailing far behind. What
:10:21. > :10:24.other candidates, you might ask? There is actually quite a few people
:10:25. > :10:30.standing to be President, mostly independents but also the Green
:10:31. > :10:33.Party and Gary Johnson from the Libertarian party, 15% of the
:10:34. > :10:38.electorate are considering voting for one of them, so why have we not
:10:39. > :10:39.heard more about the third-party contenders? Dan Curry e-mailed us to
:10:40. > :11:02.make that point. There is a long history of reporters
:11:03. > :11:07.being upstaged by something or someone in the background of the
:11:08. > :11:11.shot and the Downing Street cat, Larry, has a history of hogging
:11:12. > :11:16.attention. Larry was added again on Monday while Norman Smith was
:11:17. > :11:20.discussing a meeting the Prime Minister had just had. Theresa May
:11:21. > :11:25.did not want to stand up in row with Nicolas Di adjourned. She has gone
:11:26. > :11:34.enough on her plate. Luckily, it was on the news channel. -- Nicola
:11:35. > :11:38.Sturgeon. Who are all these people? Why would they not just let him in?
:11:39. > :11:46.He made it through the door eventually but not before he had
:11:47. > :11:50.thoroughly distracted Edward Stone. Thank you for your comments this
:11:51. > :11:56.week. If you want to share your opinions or even appear on the
:11:57. > :12:03.programme, you can call us. Or you can e-mail us. You can find us on
:12:04. > :12:12.Twitter and do have a look at our website. We will be back to hear
:12:13. > :12:23.your thoughts about BBC News coverage again next week.