The BBC has involved itself in a growing Europe-wide controversy by broadcasting cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Islamic world and led to the sacking of a French newspaper editor.
The corporation showed the images as they appeared in French newspaper France Soir as part of a story on the controversy on today's One O'Clock News bulletin and on the News 24 channel.
If you go to the BBC's main webpage and click on the watch news in video on the top left, then click on the news bulletiens,1, 6 and 10 oclock news, you'll see the video of newscast which carried the cartoons - barely. The screen was dark, the cartoons barely visible and lasted a few seconds. But still they showed them.
And channel 5 looks set to do the same.
The Channel Five news controller, Chris Shaw, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that his channel planned to show the cartoons in its 5.30pm bulletin, but only in the context of the images used in yesterday's edition of the French newspaper France Soir.
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