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between environmentalists and the oil industry. At 10pm we will have a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
full round-up of the news today. Now on BBC News, it is time for | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Newswatch. Hello and welcome to Newswatch, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
with me Samira Ahmed. The annual scrutiny of who wears | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
a poppy on BBC News and when. What are | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
the rules governing presenters First, though, the crash last | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Saturday of a Russian aircraft flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Petersburg, which killed all of the 224 people on board, has dominated | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
the news agenda this week, with the emphasis midweek shifting to | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
the fate of British holiday-makers Their plight was described | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
on Thursday's News at 6 as follows: British tourists remain stranded | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
in Sharm el-Sheikh, as the Prime Minister points towards | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
a terror attack having brought One word in that headline, also used | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
widely elsewhere, was picked up on And Leslie Carter | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
from Suffolk had this to say: Reporting | :00:59. | :01:32. | |
from Sharm el-Sheikh airport on Thursday evening, was Mark, who was | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
filming himself on a mobile phone. This is the scene today from Sharm | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
el-Sheikh International Airport. The flight behind me, people waiting | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
to go through security We are filming fairly discreetly | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
because the authorities don't want We saw one journalist team have | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
their cameras for over an hour while police | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
checked our phones documents. Well, having watched that, Rob | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
Robinson e-mailed us as follows: One of the difficult issues | :02:19. | :02:40. | |
in covering such a distressing story is the use of photographs posted | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
on social media, often only hours before the moment of death and early | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
on in the week the focus of some Newswatch viewers was on | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
the pictures used in the aftermath of the plane crash, with Constance | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
objecting to the use of photographs of two children taken just | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
before they boarded the flight: Pam Young's concern was about the | :02:58. | :03:20. | |
shot of one particular image seen We put those points to BBC News | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
and they told us: Elsewhere this week, we | :03:24. | :04:05. | |
heard criticism of this. You are talking about the Burberry | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
campaign, which is their Christmas The item on Wednesday's Breakfast on | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
BBC One was described by Michael as: We put that point to Breakfast | :04:12. | :04:27. | |
and they told us: On the same programme, there was | :04:28. | :04:44. | |
a discussion about pancreatic cancer I am sorry we are right out of time, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
thank you. The Victoria Derbyshire programme is | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
on at 9.15am this morning and Richard from Salisbury reacted | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
as follows: This is the response to | :05:01. | :05:26. | |
that point from Breakfast: As we approach Remembrance Sunday | :05:27. | :05:49. | |
this weekend, the question of who does, or does | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
not, wear a poppy to commemorate soldiers who have died in war is | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
creating its annual controversy. This year, politicians have come | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
under particular scrutiny. Just after he was elected Labour | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
leader, Jeremy Corbyn found himself in a row over whether he would wear | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
a red or a pacifist white poppy This week David Cameron was | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
ridiculed after his office admitted it had photoshopped an image of | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
a poppy onto the Prime Minister's Those appearing on television come | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
under particular scrutiny with the actress Serena Miller facing | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
criticism on social media after featuring poppyless as a guest | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
on last week's Graham Norton show. Nearly all BBC News presenters and | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
reporters and most interviewees wear poppies on air and when they don't | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
viewers are quick to complain. But others, such as Grant Buckley, | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
object to what they see as To explain and discuss the BBC's | :06:39. | :06:56. | |
policy on poppies, I am joined by the corporation's | :06:57. | :07:20. | |
director of editorial policy Anyone may wear a poppy if they wish | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
to, but we denote a time during which poppies can be worn because we | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
noticed a few years ago that people were beginning to wear poppies | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
earlier in the year and in order to control that we decided that we | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
would set dates during which poppies can be worn and it is to two to two | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
and a half weeks before Is there a requirement or | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
an expectation that presenters and guests should wear a poppy on | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
air? There is no requirement, | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
no one is required to wear one, no one who works for | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
the BBC is required to wear one and Expectations depend on the | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
individuals concerned and what they feel are the expectations on them, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
but no one is told in the BBC that If you are relaxed about poppies, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
which some people say are a political statement, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
where is the line on things like AIDS ribbons or charity wristbands | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
or even something like a CND badge? I don't think we would agree that | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
these are a political statement. The reason why the BBC allows | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
poppies to be worn and has since the 1920s is because they are an act | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
of remembrance for those who died initially in the First World War and | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
those who've died in subsequent wars or sacrificed in some way | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
in those world wars. At the same time, because of our | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
partnership with the Royal British L it means the money donated | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
for the purchase of poppies is used to support service men and women who | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
may have fallen on hard times or may need support in some other way or | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
form. I don't think we can say it is | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
a political statement, We have certain partner charities in | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the BBC, like Children in Need or Comic Relief or the Royal British | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Legion, who we permit to be promoted on our airwaves and a lot of others | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
that we don't, simply because if we allowed everybody to wear charitable | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
insignia and to promote their charities on-air we would | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
have unfairness developing between charities and we try to sponsor | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
charities, by and large, they make donations to other charities in | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
grants and so forth, like Children in Need, so we support as broad a | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
range of charities as possible, Some viewers say that you could be | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
forgiven for thinking there is a rule on wearing poppies because how | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
often do we ever see a presenter or a guest without one and indeed in | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
every studio, including this one, we have a box with poppies in case | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
you have forgotten to buy one. That is part of our partnership with | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the British Royal Legion and we allow poppies to be sold on our | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
premises and we do not allow that to We do allow them to be sold but it | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
still is an individual decision. These days, people get very | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
exercised about the details, like which side you pin it on | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
and how you wear it, even the angle of it, left or right for women, | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
does the BBC worry about that? We have never issued any | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
instructions about how to do it, it is up to each individual how | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
they wear the poppy. I think the important thing, | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
and everyone would agree on this, is that if you are wearing one you | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
are showing respect to people who have made the ultimate sacrifice | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
in defence of this country or have suffered in some other way in doing | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
that and that is what it is about. Precisely how you wear it, | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
I suspect, for most people is not Finally, the BBC assistant political | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
editor, Norman Smith, sometimes has a colourful turn of phrase and he | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
deployed it on Wednesday after what he saw as a successful statement | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
from the Home Secretary, Theresa May, on the Government's draft | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Investigatory Powers Bill. The Home Secretary can properly | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
afford to go back to her office, kick off her kitten heels, pour | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
yourself a large cup of tea and maybe help herself to a Jammy Dodger | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
or something, because she seemed to fairly successfully diffuse what was | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
potentially going to be an extraordinarily difficult | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
parliamentary moment. Do is tell us your thoughts | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
about that and all you heard We would also welcome your views | :11:12. | :11:33. | |
on BBC News and current affairs output and volunteers to appear | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
on the programme. Our telephone number | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
and email address are on screen. You can find us on Twitter | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
and do look at our website. That is all from us, we will be back | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
to hear your thoughts about BBC News We will have tonight's FA Cup | :11:54. | :12:08. | |
opening tie result between | :12:09. | :12:12. |