and news presenters to scotland on the day of the first minister's resignation? or does it show the bbc�*s commitment to broadcasting from and for all the nations and regions of the uk? it's been a big week in politics, notjust because of the local elections in england and wales, but because of the political drama that took place in scotland on monday. that evening's news at six started in slightly comical fashion. hello. good evening. welcome to the bbc news at six live from the holyrood parliament in edinburgh. on a tumultuous day in scottish politics, humza yousaf has announced he is standing down as snp leader and scotland's first minister afterjust 13 months in office.

a number of viewers contacted us, concerned not by that brief and unscheduled appearance from chris mason at the start there, but by what the bbc�*s political editor and presenterjane hill were doing in edinburgh in the first place. there's already a scotland editor for bbc news, james cook, and he was on the spot and reporting on the story too, and joining chris and jane in a discussion about the implications of humza yousef�*s resignation. amanda thomas was one of those asking this question was it really asking this question.

well, mary jane wright also got in touch with us and we can now speak to her. hello, mary jane. thank you for coming on newswatch. what did you object to about the bbc�*s coverage of this story? well, mainly was what your correspondents have just said. is that what it really necessary to send chris mason and jane hill there? the bbc in scotland have excellent reporters. they know the area extremely well and they live there. chris mason and jane hill are very good. there's no problem with them. but really to send two more reporters and then to have three reporters standing, having a discussion with not a political person inside was a bit i don't know, itjust seemed a little bit overkill to me. this is an issue that's come up before for viewers. do you not think that it's ever justified sending national news people to do such live broadcasts from the locations of big stories elsewhere?

it depends on the story. it's i mean, what an important story. yes, but you don't need three people standing there, three reporters standing there discussing it. and it's big, big stories are big stories. and you do obviously with things going on, you need you can't have one reporter there reporting for 2h hours a day. so you do need extra reporters. but this really. no, i don't think it warranted extra people there. i suppose the other issue, which one of the other viewers mentioned was at a time when the bbc�*s talking about budget cuts and cutting jobs, is this a wise use of licence fee payers money sending people up? it's actually bbc do some excellent programmes. i'm very, very supportive of the bbc. but you know, in times are strained and it is difficult for all companies to cover their gusts in some cases and to send people

somewhere, you know, airfares or rail fares and hotels, they're not cheap. maryjane wright, thank you so much. thank you, samira. we did ask for someone from bbc news to come on the programme to discuss the deployment of london based staff to scotland on monday. but our invitation was refused. instead, we were given this statement.

there have been many upsetting and shocking images from the middle east over the past seven months or so and parts of fergal keane's report shown on friday last week on bbc one's news bulletins, certainly fitted into that category. the subject was the death of a baby named sabrine, who had been rescued from her dying mother's womb after an israeli air strike in southern gaza. we were shown pictures of sabrine struggling for life in hospital and later her body being brought home to her community. we won't be showing that footage ourselves, but here's an excerpt from later in the report. today, her uncle rami prayed at sabrin�*s grave and overhead an israeli drone. the loss that changed everything for this family

this girl left a mark on everyone�*s heart. she moved the whole world. to me, sabrina was the living legacy of my brother. before the report was shown on the news at six, there was a warning from the presenter about the distressing images to come, but that wasn't enough for this caller to our phone line. hello. my name is christine. i live in devon and i've just been watching the 6:00 news on bbc one about the death of a baby. it's way beyond before the watershed. it's far too graphic. it's very, very upsetting. and children could be watching this. ijust wanted to express our disgust. thank you. colin gould made a similar point on email.

well, we put that to bbc news and they told us we take considered that same day, bbc one�*s lunchtime news showed a report ahead of the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history, which began the liberation of france when the second world war broke out. these veterans of the normandy landings were the same age as some of the schoolchildren they're meeting today. we, my colleagues,

we are we went through it. we know the little stories, the and it's important that they know. when you think of learning about history and d—day, you always watch movies. you read books, you think of all these things. but then you never really realise what it's like until you hear these people actually talking about it. the allied invasion of northern france succeeded in wresting europe from north sea occupation. from nazi occupation. nick eccleston was watching carefully and got in touch with this afterwards about an error with the archive footage at the end of that clip. having seen today's lunchtime news, the bbc laudably included an item on the 80th anniversary, including educating young children by d—day veterans. however, the newsreel actually started by showing dunkirk evacuation newsreel. yes, the dunkirk section was very short, but is repeatedly shown whenever the dunkirk evacuation is being referred to. surely the bbc should know the difference and broadcast

finally, more people than ever before in history are voting in elections this year, and the biggest of those elections is under way in india, where almost a billion people are casting their ballots over a six week period. yogi ptolemy�*s report appeared on the news at ten a couple of weeks ago. a right given to every adult citizen since india's independence. more than 75 years on, it remains a much cherished one. despite the blazing heat, people came out. many here are farmers and daily wagers coming in early so they can get to theirjobs after voting. the logistical challenge of such a democratic exercise is mind boggling. but there's also a challenge to journalists covering the election. prashant kadam had a plea

to make dear bbc team as a concerned citizen of india. i am reaching out to you regarding the pressing issue of biased media and the need for fair elections in our country. thank you, prashant, and thank you all for your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media email newswatch at bbc.co. uk or you can find us on x formerly known as twitter at newswatch bbc.

and do you have a look at previous interviews on our website, bbc. co. uk newswatch? uk newswatch. that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. do think about getting in touch and perhaps even coming on the programme now. i am away next week, but rajini vaidyanathan will be here for more of your thoughts about how the bbc covers the news and i will be back in a fortnight. goodbye.

hi there. it is time to play a game of let's think of lots of random sounding things and hold them all in our head at the same time. 0k. you ready? yeah. 0k. think of these things. the world's fastest filming drone, a clip on device that turns any bike electric and a skateboard park suspended underneath a hot air balloon. last one really does sound random. i know, but the question is, what on earth do those things have in common? well, they've all been developed with the help of the red bull racing team. and alister keene�*s been finding out why. when it comes to formula one, there's one team dominating the races there, sheer number of wins. it's hard evidence that red bull have built something at the cutting edge of tech. but this isn't where their design innovation stops. and there are other projects might surprise you. if not, they'll certainly catch your breath.

this extreme bmx ball was built with the help of red bull advanced this extreme bmx bowl was built with the help of red bull advanced technologies or our bats, a spin out from the racing team embarking on lots of different engineering projects. the thing that links them all together is taking this formula one technology and methodologies and applying it to other things. so yeah, the common theme is the formula one tech in all of them. these are the cars that red bull racing is all about, but there are lots of bits of this tech that you can take forward into other areas. absolutely. i mean, it's like you can you can look at this and you can see like on the floor there, you can see some different types of carbon fibre, different waves and those materials we very much can carry forward through directly from the race car into other other products. you've then got sort of more specific, like the actual aerodynamic shape, sort of like all this complexity around here. well, it's very unlikely we'd ever take any of that and use it elsewhere, but it goes back to the tools and methodologies that we use to understand

the airflow around those parts and develop those parts. this is the bmx or chris kyle, but creating his unique skatepark isn't without challenge. that's where our team came in. they came to us to see what can we do material wise to make - it lighter, but also strong enough so that when it came _ down it didn't shatter. their initial design- was steel and would be could out of composites, _ but also it had to be you have to be able to take this apart i so you can get it through the farmer's field. so there were a number— of interesting structural challenges that we had to overcome. the main challenge was i keeping that weight down. we had a little bit - of margin with the balloon. i and i think, i think the balloon . that we've ended up manufacturing was the the biggest. in europe at the time. it's perhaps not a surprise, though, that some of our bat�*s projects come back to formula one.

the most recent helping to create what could be the world's fastest drone. the original brief was to be able to film the car and keep up with the car. and so that was what was done. and then the footage is really impressive. and so then you start thinking, well, how can that be used in the future? where do we want to go with that? the main thing they wanted was a weight saving. and so we looked at the design of what i call the bodywork on the outside of it, and then there's a cruciform structure that actually holds the motor. we took those, we re—engineered them in composite materials. so i think overall we reduced the weight of the drone by about io%. and yeah, that helped just lift that performance of the drone to that higher level so that it was able to keep up with the car. think straight line, it's probably faster than the fi car. i think his biggest challenge is how you stop the drone because it's not it's not it hasn't got four nice to his eyes in contact