here's brian chambers and first, hugh robson. so i'm baffled why suddenly i see clive myrie being parachuted in to report on this. it's a real slap in the face for the local reporters. a sort of "move over. serious talent coming in." but it's worse than that, because what does it add and what cost financially to get clive and whatever team supports him across the world and back again is extraordinary when the bbc budgets are so tight. but in the story itself, it's about climate change and how the conditions that are leading to this are seriously affected by carbon in the atmosphere. and here we have reporters being jetted halfway around the world and back again. so it doesn't make sense. come on, bbc, let's have responsible news—gathering. i feel that is a complete waste of time and money when there are already correspondents within those countries covering the same news items, doing exactly the same job in an equally professional manner as the news readers would be doing. well, we put those points to bbc news. they told us that

here‘s brian chambers and first, hugh robson.s and doing exactly the same job in an equally professional manner as the news readers would be doing. well, we put those points to bbc news. they told us that clive myrie was sent to australia to support the team based there locally, who‘d done many long days coverage of the bushfires before he arrived. a spokesman added: monday‘s news at six led with the highly distressing news of reynhard sinaga, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for no fewer than 136 offences of rape. claire border was watching and recorded her response for us on camera. on monday night, i watched the early evening news with great concern. there was a report about a serial rapist which, in my opinion, went into unnecessary detail, and i was very concerned that it was being shown at a time when my seven—year—old granddaughter would be able to see it. i certainly felt that we didn‘t need to see a photograph of the mattress where the attacks took place, along with graphic detail. although children do need to be a