Benazir Bhutto Killed

Colin Brazier presenting Live at Five from Islamabad for Sky News.

And VOILA!!! Lyse Doucet now in Larkana!

Intriguingly, the tree has vanished again, seemed to be only back for a couple of hours before disappearing again. Tim back again this afternoon, but good to see Chris Lowe on in (nearly) daylight hours, starting at 5.

Lyse once again have proven herself to be gifted.

Inexplicably, the News 24 tree has returned for a third time.

I hope it gets left alone now, and removed when it should be, at the end of Christmas!

Maybe with these types of simulcast, it may have been better to have down it from BBC World's studio instead.

I don't understand why they haven't done that. They moved to BBC World for a short time yesterday morning but really they should have done all simulcasts from N9. Having to move a Christmas tree every five minutes is ridiculous when they've got a perfectly good studio available in the form of N9. I bet it took a committee to come up with the tree moving idea

Why not just leave the tree up!!!?

Political correctness gone mad springs to mind!


Yes, the tree might be inappropriate when covering such a story - but to remove it just because it's simulcasting on BBC World is ridiculous.


As I said before, people are choosing to get their news from the BBC - and Britain is currently celebrating Christmas - and therefore a Christmas tree in the background is nothing to complain about.

It's not that people will get offended, as your use of the word 'complaints' seems to suggest, more that it'll make no sense to many of the people watching.

I find that hard to believe. I'm a British Christian, so does that mean that I don't know that Hindus celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights? I'm sure any educated person with at least a handful of brain cells would be able to work out what the tree is for.

Sorry, I shouldn't have said no sense, more no significance if that makes sense, and by that I mean to virtually anybody in the country. Therefore it seems silly to have one.