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You will also find an interactive guide explaining how to vote if you

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are eligible. Until next week, goodbye.

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Welcome. Objections that the BBC's coverage of the plane crash in

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Ukraine has been insensitive and intrusive. It is going to be a

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festival of sport that will be enjoyed and watched by millions

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around the world. The Commonwealth Games is not enjoyed by every viewer

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of the Commonwealth Games is not enjoyed by every viewer of BBC News.

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The crash of flight MH17 has been fully examined over the past week or

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so on the BBC News. Some of the images showed made for strong

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feeling. Here are some other excerpts from the output from us

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weekend, which some viewers might find distressing. Off`duty miners

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were searching for more bodies. Each is marked with a makeshift stick

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with a white rag tied to it. In some cases, there is a forest of markers,

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indicated that struck indicating where passengers alive. There are

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around 100 bodies that are still missing. Scattered across the

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ground, the wreckage of flight MH17. This, the cockpit of the plane. And

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here, the belongings of the travellers. On holidays, business,

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moving home. The end of all plans and possibilities. Finally, the

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first international investigators to arrive. The scene of so much death,

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and a grim task for forensic experts from Holland regarding `` guarded by

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rebel gunmen. The idea is to move all the bodies to Holland for

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identification, but for now, just moving them out of the war zone

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would be good. Two of the viewers who contacted as this week about the

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coverage join me now. Sue is in our Birmingham studio and Gary is also

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joining us. Can you sum up your concern about the coverage of this

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crash? It was the fact that it was personal belongings being shown on

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television, and I've felt that I was very distressed, I cannot imagine

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how anybody who was directly involved in that situation must have

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felt. I've felt that anything of a personal nature, whether it be a fax

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or themselves, it would be a terrible thing for those people to

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view. What about for you? Aerie similar to Gary. I'd just felt that

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the whole `` very similar to Gary, I just thought that the coverage

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showed a total lack of respect for the dads in the bereaved families.

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Did you have an issue with the showing of the hand? I thought that

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was in bad taste and overstepped a mark.

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Syria and other places. There is a a few times, and the coverage

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sense that they express, that it feels like a free for all at the

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scene, and the coverage was pushing further and further into going close

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on possessions and showing parts of bodies. First of all, this was a

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horrible and terrible event, and the feelings of the families and the

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wider audience are in our thinking as we cover the story. At the same

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time, we do have to cover the story, and we have to convey impact in the

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terror of what happened in eastern Ukraine, and that is why we deployed

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highly experienced correspondents and reducers, and we have programme

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editors back in London you are very experienced in getting the balance

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right between the language, the pitches that we show, and what the

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audience is able to stake in a story of such

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you are put in a position, where I've felt it was bordering on

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voyeurism, and I think that is totally unacceptable. There might be

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cases where war has a lot of horror, but let's bear in mind that

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a picture speaks a thousand words, but only if those words were worth

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saying in the first place. This idea of this lack of respect. We know

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that one reporter had to apologise for touching object that he had

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found, and it is the sense that the camera has gone into close, and that

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is part of the reason why viewers feel it is distressing. In terms of

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the site itself, BBC correspondents stuck to the permitted roads and

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routes and were not interfering with evidence there, and that would

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actually say that teens across the `` teams across journalism and did

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an important job there in terms of telling viewers and audiences in the

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UK and around the world that this site was unsupervised and was not

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being regulated, and it did not appear to be handled in the right

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and proper way, and they need to find out what happened there and

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they need to do the right thing by the people and families who were

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involved in that terrible crash. Some of the specific images which

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have raised complaints, with the benefit of hindsight, do you think

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we would show them again? I think our imagery through the coverage has

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been discussed and carefully considered, and I think this was an

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unprecedented story in terms of its shock in the trauma around it, and

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I'd think that we were well judged, but I will accept that some parts of

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the audience will think that maybe there was something we should not

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have said or shown. Thank you all for joining us.

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Let us know your thoughts on the coverage of the plane crash in

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Ukraine or any aspects of BBC News. After a brief rest in sports related

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complaints, you have also been sending us your views about the

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extent to which the Commonwealth Games have fissured the structure of

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`` had featured on the news channel. This is where it will all kick off,

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Scotland's biggest football stadium, with what promises to be a

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spectacular opening ceremony in the presence of the Queen. The and

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higher South stand has been transformed with a giant screen. ``

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the entire. They are calling it Glasgow's we know on the

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Commonwealth. The eyes of the world will be on this CD as Glasgow

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Commonwealth Games in history. `` on Commonwealth Games in history. `` on

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this city. A graphics extravaganza, but some you beers `` viewers

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wonder... On Wednesday, the Games got

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underway, and that evening, while the opening ceremony was being shown

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on BBC One, and the news channel, the paper review was about to come

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to a premature end. We think it is high time that interest rates

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started to rise. I am sorry to interrupt you, but we have got this

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Commonwealth Games ceremony going on and we just want to take a look at

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it. Terrific to see him here... In fact, it was more than an hour

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before the channel returned to the studio, punting a number of

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complaints. Firstly, a question about the caption at the bottom of

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the screen `` the screen there. That was not the end of the Games

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related objections. Breakfast has decamped to Glasgow for the duration

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of the Glasgow games. Here is Adam Church Hill.

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We put that point to the breakfast show and were told...

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Because of the coverage of the Commonwealth Games, this week in

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Mexico's programme will not be repeated as normal on BBC One, but

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we are back at 845 on Friday evening on the BBC News Channel, and you can

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always watch us on the I player. Your opinion could feature on that

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programme, just call us or e`mail us. You can find us on Twitter and

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have a look at previous discussions on our website. That is all from us.

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We will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage

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again next week. Good evening. The storms we had in the southeast of

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England have faded away now, and temperatures are going to

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