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It does have international interest especially as it involves a former Prime Minister. BBC World News still covered it in the 6pm GMT bulletin yesterday which is not simulcast in the UK. I am sure CNNI will cover parts of it as well depending on other news stateside.

There might be a degree of international interest, but, particularly on BBC World News, these kinds of events should be shown in highlights, rather than taking four hours out of scheduled programming. I find it annoying enough when the BBC News channel decide to disappear for several hours in favour of live event coverage, but World News doing so across peak times in several key markets is just pointless and unjustifiable.

While I understand that BBC Parliament at present has a Commons-first policy, I'd honestly rather the channel be taken over by a consortium of the three news broadcasters and converted to a parliamentary and wider news events channel - allowing it to take these kinds of events live and unedited, while leaving the news channels to actually cover the news and use highlights of the event when necessary.