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I can see clashes in the future during breaking news. Who gets priority in this studio in the event that Persian TV wishes to stay broadcasting into the night? It's happened to me three times while working on the channel - and many other times when it hasn't been me in the chair.
I would hope that this is the start of more working together between the English and Foreign language services and if so I would imagine that will largely depend on the story in question and how it's likely impact on different audiences. On the presumption that it is a story with relevance to the UK audience I imagine that Newsnight will be allowed to use 54D with another studio being found for Persian to use if at all possible (potentially studio D with London using one of the small world service green screen studios for it's short late bulletin or possibly a combined London and South East late bulletin from Tunbridge Wells if not a London centric story).
Saturday specials should be easier to plan for as long as they aren't scheduled within the same hour as the singular regional news bulletin on this basis with someone using D for the hour in question with Newsnight using whichever studio is freed up (or depending on the story in question one of C and E could well be unused due to a simulcast between World and the NC).