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0:00:00 > 0:00:01And in the the United States this is how the Dow

0:00:01 > 0:00:03and the Nasdaq are getting on.

0:00:03 > 0:00:05Now it's time for Newswatch, with Samira Ahmed rounding

0:00:05 > 0:00:10up your reactions to this week's BBC News coverage.

0:00:10 > 0:00:18Hello and welcome to news watch. Coming up: A report's questions

0:00:18 > 0:00:23prompts tears from a bereaved father and anger from viewers. What did he

0:00:23 > 0:00:28ask and why? And is BBC news going overboard in reporting allegations

0:00:28 > 0:00:37of sexual harassment? We discussed on last week's programme viewers'

0:00:37 > 0:00:43concerns that BBC News is making too much of reporting on this winter's

0:00:43 > 0:00:47difficulties in the NHS. It is no surprise the attention of some of

0:00:47 > 0:00:51you was drawn to the Monday evening bulletins which led with a long and

0:00:51 > 0:00:54powerful piece about the challenges being faced at the University

0:00:54 > 0:01:01Hospital of North Tees and its staff and patients.

0:01:01 > 0:01:11He is 83. She is struggling to breathe.They are marvellous these

0:01:11 > 0:01:24two men. They have never left me. I am in agony.It is awful. We don't

0:01:24 > 0:01:29like it, nobody likes patients to be in the corridor, but I physically

0:01:29 > 0:01:34have no room to put this lady in. Sandra Smith felt the top of the

0:01:34 > 0:01:38news programme was not the right place for reporting of that kind.

0:01:38 > 0:01:46She recorded this video to explain why.We all know the NHS is

0:01:46 > 0:01:50struggling and we all understand that sometimes these things have to

0:01:50 > 0:01:54be reported, but to go on for nearly 15 minutes on a news programme is

0:01:54 > 0:02:01not right. There are programmes such as Panorama for this sort of

0:02:01 > 0:02:05investigative journalism. There are lots of other things going on in the

0:02:05 > 0:02:11world, not just the NHS.Jerry Etheridge agreed with those

0:02:11 > 0:02:15sentiments and took exception to the tone of the coverage. Nearly 50% of

0:02:15 > 0:02:20the day's news at six is covering problems in the NHS. Clearly this

0:02:20 > 0:02:25should be reported, but can we have more succinct coverage. Jonathan

0:02:25 > 0:02:29Bush called it the shameful report.

0:02:43 > 0:02:54John Weaver put the opposite point of view.

0:02:57 > 0:03:02In politics are plenty of attention was given to Ukip over last weekend.

0:03:02 > 0:03:05Its leader Henry Bolton has been under pressure since news broke of

0:03:05 > 0:03:10his relationship with an ex-model and the racist messages she had

0:03:10 > 0:03:14sent. Alex Forsyth reported on the story for the news that one on

0:03:14 > 0:03:20Monday. Despite growing pressure, he says he is not going anywhere. Henry

0:03:20 > 0:03:25Bolton is insisting he wants to keep leading Ukip, even though the

0:03:25 > 0:03:29party's ruling body says he should quit and now a string of senior

0:03:29 > 0:03:33members have resigned because he will not go. Sheila Grant was

0:03:33 > 0:03:37watching that and wondered, why on earth is Ukip the lead story on the

0:03:37 > 0:03:42news that one reporting live from Westminster? This party has no MPs

0:03:42 > 0:03:46and following the referendum no longer has any relevance in this

0:03:46 > 0:03:49country as can be seen by the haemorrhaging of their support and

0:03:49 > 0:03:50constantly leaving leaders.

0:04:12 > 0:04:16By the end of the week much of the media's focus had switched to

0:04:16 > 0:04:20Switzerland where many of the well's business leaders and heads of state

0:04:20 > 0:04:25were meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The BBC were there

0:04:25 > 0:04:29in force, but some felt that coverage concentrated too much on

0:04:29 > 0:04:33the global elite and not enough on the economic realities of people's

0:04:33 > 0:04:34lives.

0:04:54 > 0:04:59On Thursday BBC News reported on the sharp rise in serious, violent

0:04:59 > 0:05:04crimes recorded by police in England and Wales. Hugh is Tom Symons on the

0:05:04 > 0:05:13BBC News at Six. Behind the statistics, wasted lives. A decade

0:05:13 > 0:05:16after this boy tried out the bike he had been given as a present, he

0:05:16 > 0:05:22became one of four young men stabbed in London New Year's you, leaving

0:05:22 > 0:05:27his father confronted with a nightmare. You saw his body?Yes.

0:05:27 > 0:05:34What is it like for a father to see their son dead in front of them?It

0:05:34 > 0:05:42was just painful.A number of viewers took exception to the

0:05:42 > 0:05:49question and recorded this video.I could not believe my ears on

0:05:49 > 0:05:53Thursday night when I was listening to the six o'clock News and your

0:05:53 > 0:05:57reporter talking to that poor gentleman who had just lost his son

0:05:57 > 0:06:02after a bout of street violence. The reporter said, what does it feel

0:06:02 > 0:06:08like to see your son lying dead on the floor in front of you. How

0:06:08 > 0:06:11insensitive and disrespectful. I thought the BBC were better than

0:06:11 > 0:06:17this. I just could not believe what I was hearing.We put that point to

0:06:17 > 0:06:36BBC News and a spokesperson told us:

0:06:47 > 0:06:51let us know your thoughts on any of the issues we are covering or on any

0:06:51 > 0:06:56other aspect of BBC News. There will be details of how to contact us

0:06:56 > 0:07:01before the end of the programme. Before that, some more of your

0:07:01 > 0:07:04comments. On Wednesday it was this top story that caught the attention

0:07:04 > 0:07:10of some of you. All the President's club men appear

0:07:10 > 0:07:13to be enjoying themselves at their charity dinner, the women working

0:07:13 > 0:07:18there much less so. Claims they were groped at the men only event for

0:07:18 > 0:07:26those in business and politics. Women working as table host testers

0:07:26 > 0:07:38were made to where revealing outfits, their phones confiscated.

0:07:38 > 0:07:46It was filmed by an undercover Financial Times journalist, but some

0:07:46 > 0:07:49viewers but the BBC was making too much of it.

0:08:17 > 0:08:21And this telephone caller felt that BBC news was not telling the whole

0:08:21 > 0:08:23of the story.

0:08:36 > 0:08:40A lot of the girls said they were not harassed at all. Shouldn't the

0:08:40 > 0:08:45BBC be finding out both sides of the story?Another viewers thought the

0:08:45 > 0:08:51prominence that went on at the dinner detracted from more important

0:08:51 > 0:08:57news.I wanted to express my surprised that you did not bother to

0:08:57 > 0:09:00include anything at all about the Save the Children fund offices being

0:09:00 > 0:09:06bombed in Afghanistan on the six o'clock news, although you chose to

0:09:06 > 0:09:11devote loads and loads of time to a bunch of elderly, wealthy perverts

0:09:11 > 0:09:17in the Dorchester hotel. Really, you have got your priorities completely

0:09:17 > 0:09:24wrong in my opinion.As well as leading on that charity dinner,

0:09:24 > 0:09:26Wednesday evening bulletins featured reports on the sentencing of the

0:09:26 > 0:09:33former US gymnastics team Doctor abusing athletes. Also allegations

0:09:33 > 0:09:39by nuns at a care home in Lanarkshire, also sexist remarks

0:09:39 > 0:09:44made on Twitter by the New England women's football team Phil Neville,

0:09:44 > 0:09:57also stories about the rapist John Warboys. All different stories, but:

0:09:57 > 0:10:01the court appearance of the Doctor and the summing up of the judge in

0:10:01 > 0:10:04the case had already been broadcast live for more than half an hour on

0:10:04 > 0:10:12the news channel, prompting this reaction.I was watching the news on

0:10:12 > 0:10:21Wednesday when coverage of the trial came on and on and on. After ten

0:10:21 > 0:10:26minutes listing to the judge's tedious summing up I switched off.

0:10:26 > 0:10:31However, this left me wondering why this man, not exactly a household

0:10:31 > 0:10:35name in this country, was warranted such extended coverage in the first

0:10:35 > 0:10:42place. Surely a post trial and post sentencing report would have been

0:10:42 > 0:10:48quite sufficient?Finally, British tennis has a new hero, Kyle Edmonds,

0:10:48 > 0:10:53who this week reached the semifinal of the Australian open. As he

0:10:53 > 0:10:57progressed through the tournament we heard more about him with BBC News

0:10:57 > 0:11:02tracking down his boyhood coach on Tuesday. It was all a little too

0:11:02 > 0:11:11detailed as someone describing himself as confused on twitter. I am

0:11:11 > 0:11:14disappointed with coverage of Kyle Edmonds, they did not even interview

0:11:14 > 0:11:17his dog.

0:11:28 > 0:11:31You can telephone us, you can find us on Twitter or you can have a look

0:11:31 > 0:11:38at our website. That is all from us. We will be back to hear your