BBC World News: Presentation

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I don't think World News Today really gives a more in-depth look at the day's events than a regular BBC World News bulletin would. In a promo for World News Today, Nik Gowing says that by watching the programme viewers can get the full story, but actually I always feel I don't. Everyone of the day's top stories is just given a few minutes time and many interviews are often interrupted if they last a little bit too long. The programme is a very valuable round-up of the day's events, but the single events are not analysed in a completely satisfactory way. What I'd love to see on BBC World News is a few programmes throughout the day that would just focus on a couple of the day's main events and would report and analyse those events in-depth, providing background stories (on the first day of the conflict between Russia and Georgia, Katty Kay opened a bulletin saying "until today many people had never heard about South Ossetia", but I still haven't seen a decent report about the history of the region and the roots of the conflict), longer interviews and maybe a more relaxed and less fast-paced debate and analysis of the story.
Otherwise BBC World News will continue to provide excellent bulletins of the international news but the viewers who really want to get a full picture will have to rely on other sources. And sometimes I find AlJazeera more successful in providing debates and a more in-depth look of the news.

from what i saw on holiday these World News Todays were identical to normal bulletins. I saw no point in them at all.

Yup I think you're right. How weird.

it's so good that BBCWN is not covering too much of the Obama-Biden breaking news...
ugh... CNNi and FOX is on breaking news status for the past 3-4 hrs for just one topic!

Juliette Foster is on duty today on BBC World News, and so was the BBC News dog, ticker and clock for some time too!

Corrected now.

have they changed something in the World studio, seems to be some extra white boards next to the gallery, I am that wasn't there.

Claire Marshall and Peter Dobbie on duty for the News Hour today. Good pairing.

Strange they fixed the music in COMING UP now it gives the time for Berlin only so they unfixed it.

The new silent weather sting is appalling, although the music used in the previous sting was so bad that maybe silence should be considered an improvement.

I quite like the weather sting on a UK online forecast...

I didn't watch BBCWorldNews that much last week, but I have the impression they've been giving much more space to the Repubblican convention than to the Democratic one. Am I wrong?