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A That's the news, now on BBC News it's time for Newswatch with Samira

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Ahmed. This week some viewers complain that too many BBC

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journalists were sent to Rome for the Pope's resignation, with others

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saying the horsemeat scandal has Welcome to the programme. On this

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week's programme: tonight at 10pm, we are in Rome where Pope Benedict

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has unexpectedly announced his resignation.

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What were we doing in Rome. What is she doing on a Welsh

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country lane in the dark? One viewer begs BBC News to drop

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the dead horse. Is it scaremongering over horsemeat?

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When word came through on Monday morning, that Pope Benedict XVI

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became the first pope in 600 years to resign, the BBC News operation

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leapt into action. The story dominated the day and much of the

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week on the BBC News Channel. Lots of reporters were all reporting

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from the Vatican, supplementing the corporation's Rome-based

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journalists. By Monday night, Huw Edwards had a right to present the

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news at Ten, during which he talked to Europe Editor, Gavin Ewart. But

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a viewers wondered what his presence added to the coverage. To

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discuss these reactions I'm joined by the editor of the news at six

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and the News at Ten and his deputy head of the BBC News room. And then

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joined by our Blackburn studio by a viewer. John, what was your

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reaction about the Pope's resignation? Very quickly the

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reporting moved away from the statement the Pope had given, too

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much more speculation and conjecture about the future. It did

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not call for comments from other guests in the studio on the Pope's

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legacy. But mainly -- what he would be caught in the future after he

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steps down, and what relationship he might have with his successor.

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You had a real concern about how many people were flying in to cover

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the story? There was Huw Edwards on Monday. Jon Sopel was reporting

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live from St Peter's Square on Tuesday. Handing over to Matthew

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Price with a background piece on the Vatican issues. Followed by a

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piece with Gavin Hewitt interviewing one of the African

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cardinals, partly in the frame as a possible successor. It just seemed

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to assume a sensational, dramatic dynamic story, which it really

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wasn't. It was historic, but many questions remain to be answered.

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Let me put some of back to James Stevens and. These issues come up

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again and again, they feel they do not need someone standing outside a

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building when there's nothing developing on a story? There are

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viewers who don't like to see that and we like to recognise that and

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we build that into the thinking on whether or not to deploy. The scale

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of this story, I don't think anyone is in any real doubt about the

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magnitude of the story. It is not often you can say something is

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happening of major significance in 600 years. One of the tests we

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applied on whether or not we will present from a location is the

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magnitude of the story. In this case, it was clear cut. You have

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two specialist correspondents who are based there full-time. The

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Vatican is the one place away you'll not find out anything,

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standing outside that building? do have very good correspondence in

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Rome, Alan Johnston, and David Wyllie, who is a long-time watcher

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of these events. When a huge story of this kind happens, the quantity

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and demands of output wraps up beyond O-level a local bureau, even

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a well-staffed one, can support. How much does it cost to send Huw

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Edwards for couple of days? Not a great deal. He went on easyJet from

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Gatwick. It is not a hugely expensive things. The challenges of

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reporting a big and breaking story were illustrated on Thursday

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morning, when the South African Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius,

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was arrested at his home in Pretoria on suspicion of murder.

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One of our viewers e-mailed us and I think this does connect with what

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we were talking about the Vatican. Nothing was happened fouls, and

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there was a crime story in South Africa. It is not true to say

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nothing was happening. We have the dramatic news a shooting had

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occurred at Oscar Pistorius Kostelic house. And we have the

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bare bones what the police were confirming about that, an incident

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had taken place. Quickly, we had the South African police giving a

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press conference, which we carried live on the news channel. That gave

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a substantial amount of information about what seemed to have taken

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place. It is not really the case there wasn't a lot of hard fact,

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but quite rapidly if there was quite a lot of hard facts. John

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Mitchell, we were talking about this idea over speculation been

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part of the news channel's coverage, and also the magnitude of stories

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like the Pope's resignations. Do you understand just a vocation for

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sending and the length of coverage? I don't quite accept that there was

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a need for Huw Edwards to be in Rome, with the other European

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correspondents and locally-based people, to add to the story. He

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could not add to a story which had basically petered out. We knew

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everything by about 2pm. John Mitchell, and Jayne Stevenson.

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Thanks very much. -- James Stevenson.

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Let us know your thoughts on that by any aspects on BBC News.

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Now for some of your other concerns. The row over horsemeat found in

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beef products continues to get plenty of air time. Experts agree

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there is a serious issue of Ms labelling, contamination and a

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criminal investigation is under way. Even though it has been revealed

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the animal painkiller, bute may have entered the food chain, it

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constitutes a low risk to humans and some viewers felt there has

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been an element of hype in the coverage. One viewer was one of

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In that context, there has been much mention of the food standards

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agency. At the start of the news channel bulletin on Sunday morning.

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But this view has spotted something Sunday night saw the annual big

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night out for the British film industry. As the stars arrived in

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the rain, a film critic joined Jayne Hill on the red carpet

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discussing Sky for and the other contenders for all wards. It is

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essentially a straw dogs in a Scottish house. I think they did a

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brilliant job, and in that category it is hard to court. My vote would

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be Sky fall, because it did something nobody expected to do

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with James Bond, except reinvent it. About an hour-and-a-half of red

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carpet coverage, and later the ceremony was shown on BBC One just

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after the ceremony had taken place. So it you check the BBC website,

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Jayne Hill had spoiled another surprise for those who had not seen

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Sky fall, by revealing a major plot twist. And that came up in an

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interview conducted on the Andrew Marr Show last weekend by Sophie

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Raworth with the actress Judi Dench. We put that point to the Andrew

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Finally, Huw Edwards may have been sent to Rome, but Sian Lloyd had a

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cold or assignment, appearing just after 6am at side of food

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processing plants in Wales. I am in the middle of a countryside near

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Aberystwyth. This country lane leads to the meat processing plant.

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Thanks for the suggestion. A weekly award it might be boring, but when

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a viewer's thing such a prize should be awarded, we would try to

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