here's a viewer called b hobson: "i have been totally shocked at the film accompanying the headline reportaphic images be used? they have just shown people injecting, showing innocent young people what to do. please, we know it goes on, but must this be shown?" and a twitter used called db echoed that: "mortified that the bbc feel the need to show people getting heroin ready to inject. not what i need to see on a tuesday night." well, with me now is paul royall, editor of the bbc‘s news at six and news at ten. hard—hitting, lots of viewers agree, but ten minutes at the top of the bulletin? yes, it was a seven and a half minute report, and there was a live interview with ed thomas off the back. there are certain stories where there is perhaps more depth, analysis and explanation, and sort of a solution to the problem that we want to get into, so we felt this was one of those occasions where it justified a longer piece. we don't do it every week. we don't do it every month, we perhaps do it six or seven times a year, where we have those slightly longer, deeper, more analytical pieces. a lot

here's a viewer called b hobson: and a twitter used called db echoed that: well, with me now is paul of the bbc‘s news at six and news at ten. which ran that special report. hard—hitting, lots of viewers agree, but ten minutes at the top of the bulletin? yes, it was a 7.5—minute report, and there was a live interview with ed thomas off the back. there are certain stories where there is perhaps more depth, analysis and explanation, and sort of a solution to the problem that we want to get into, so we felt this was one of these occasions where it justified a longer piece. we don't do it every week. we don't do it every month, we perhaps do it six or seven times a year, where we have those slightly longer, deeper, more analytical pieces. a lot of viewers would say, fine, but make it a proper panorama. because again and again, viewers tell newswatch, they turn on the news at ten because they want to find out what were the big news stories that day. and that day there was harvey weinstein, catalonia, brexit, all pushed down the running order. and how many news stories are pushed off the r

here's a viewer called b hobson: "i have been totally shocked at the film accompanying the headline reporte, we know it goes on, but must this be shown?" and a twitter used called db echoed that: "mortified that the bbc feel the need to show people getting heroin ready to inject. not what i need to see on a tuesday night." well, with me now is paul royall, editor of the bbc‘s news at six and news at ten. which ran that special report. hard—hitting, lots of viewers agree, but ten minutes at the top of the bulletin? yes, it was a 7.5—minute report, and there was a live interview with ed thomas off the back. there are certain stories where there is perhaps more depth, analysis and explanation, and sort of a solution to the problem that we want to get into, so we felt this was one of these occasions where it justified a longer piece. we don't do it every week. we don't do it every month, we perhaps do it six or seven times a year, where we have those slightly longer, deeper, more analytical pieces. a lot of viewers would say, fine, but make it a proper panorama. because again and again, viewer