• After the meeting

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Ed Fraser says that after the morning meeting| he assigns producers and reporters to stories and discusses how they will cover them. He inputs an updated running order into ENPS with durations for stories as a guide to the team. This will change throughout the day.

Ed has already made one major editorial decision: to put Lindsey Hilsum's story about Saddam Hussein's trial on hold because the huge bomb blast in Baghdad means that there is already one Iraq story. This has the benefit of giving Lindsey and her team extra time to rework and edit her piece. (Lindsey's story eventually goes out several days later).

Meanwhile, the team in New York has emailed Ed. They are trying to find out from Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, whether he thinks the UN is still relevant following the World Summit's failure to come up with a useful agreement on the millennium goals. No answer yet.

The angle on the fuel protest story is changing because of the lack of significant protest. It has, however, prompted an idea for the light item for the programme - a studio discussion about the psychology of panic buying. A bid is out to get Jeremy Clarkson, the presenter of Top Gear, onto the programme.