Mishal isn't on BBC World News anymore (except as the voice introducing Newsday), so that comment is fair, but Nik Gowing chairs occasional debates, and Zeinab presents HARDTalk regularly, so I don't see the issue with them.
Interesting to see George Alagiah reporting on the BBC News at Ten last night (from London, about immigrants).
As it's that time of year, I won't be surprised if they've 'banked' some pieces recorded in the last few weeks to show over the next two weeks as filler.
Tomorrow of course it will be the 'big Christmas getaway' with a reporter live from Euston station or at the highways control centre.
Christmas Day it will be Nicholas Witchell following the traditional Christmas royal walkabout.
Boxing Day it'll be a reporter on Oxford Street and clips of people rushing into a generic department store.
The day after it'll be back to travel chaos, as travellers turn up at railway stations where there are only replacement buses running due to engineering work, apparently knowing nothing about it, despite posters being up for months saying there would be no trains. Rather than Euston they might opt for Kings Cross or even somewhere like Milton Keynes.
Then it will be looking back at the big stories of the year, then new year revellers, then the worldwide new year celebrations with reporters on the banks of the Thames.
Of course if a big news story occurs, it throws a spanner into those well trodden plans.
Tomorrow of course it will be the 'big Christmas getaway' with a reporter live from Euston station or at the highways control centre.
Christmas Day it will be Nicholas Witchell following the traditional Christmas royal walkabout.
Boxing Day it'll be a reporter on Oxford Street and clips of people rushing into a generic department store.
The day after it'll be back to travel chaos, as travellers turn up at railway stations where there are only replacement buses running due to engineering work, apparently knowing nothing about it, despite posters being up for months saying there would be no trains. Rather than Euston they might opt for Kings Cross or even somewhere like Milton Keynes.
Then it will be looking back at the big stories of the year, then new year revellers, then the worldwide new year celebrations with reporters on the banks of the Thames.
Of course if a big news story occurs, it throws a spanner into those well trodden plans.