Jon goes into make-up and enjoys a moment of calm before the live news programme begins.

In the gallery in front of a bank of monitors are the programme director, the PA who has the crucial task of doing all the timings, a number of technicians, Ed and Felicity, the chief sub words. Felicity is responsible for revising scripts or writing new ones as things change during the programme. Ed can speak to the presenters in the studio via talkback.

Jon goes into the studio to be miked up. Bridgid is already there. They have paper copies of the scripts in case autocue goes down. Ed updates Jon about the Dewsbury stabbing and the PA counts down to transmission. Jon reads the opening headlines| which now include the Dewsbury stabbings.

The story about the UN World Summit| opens with a graphic featuring bullet points of what has and has not been agreed. Jonathan Rugman, the reporter in New York, does a live piece-to-camera from outside the United Nations building. While his pre-recorded video package goes out, he hands his microphone to Edward Mortimer, the UN guest, who steps in front of camera to be interviewed by Jon Snow.

The production assistant doing the timings says that there are 40 seconds left for the interview. Ed prompts Jon over talkback to ask a particular question. Jon finally manages to ask the question when time has run out. The result is that the interview overruns by a minute and 15 seconds. Ed has to decide what to cut from the rest of the programme.

Bridgid's first newsbelt| consists of four stories and runs at little over one minute forty five seconds. Two hours earlier there had been six stories in the running order, only two of which finally make it on air. The top story is the Dewsbury stabbing, but after Ed has received legal advice by phone in the gallery, the victims are no longer called fuel protesters.

The other three stories are the murder of the two schoolboys (which David Weisbloom scripted and edited in the morning), the murder at Harvey Nichols and a story based on late-arriving footage about the return home of the Australian cricket team after losing the Ashes.