News Story Summary
News Channel - BBC News
18/10/14

At least 39 climbers have died and more than 40 are missing after blizzards and avalanches on a hiking route in Nepal earlier this week. Helicopters and Nepali troops are searching for missing trekkers in the snow-covered terrain. At least 175 people have been injured in what is one of Nepal's worst ever mountain disasters.

This news story was broadcast on the global news and was the starting story discussed, giving it the largest time spread (8 minutes) within the show, the headline story was discussed in a serious tone, with the single presenter being sat behind a desk, giving all important details, facts and figures on the event, he spoke seriously due to story involving the death of people and because of this it also makes it a global headline. At one point during the broadcast images of the Nepal mountain hikers are shown on the back screen while he continues to discuss the news story, this allows viewers to get a better understanding of the situation. 

The story is then shown through video clips ranging from the safe hikers to images of emergency services desperate to try find the remaining hikers, both clips have the use of a voice over, by showing these clips it allows the viewers of the news to understand the seriousness of this global story.

After the video clip is shown we are taken back to the studio where the presenters is speaking live with one man from Nepal, during there live speech they discuss the affects of the remaining people up the mountain and how this issue is severe and the people need to be saved, the presenters also discuss the search mission being held in order to rescue the remaining loss hikers, by speaking to someone live it the country of occurrence it helps to get awareness for these people and makes more people alert for future references.

This news story was spoke about for the first quarter of the show and then were left with the information that people are still lost in the mountains showing the seriousness of this story and revealing how the news story will be spoke about again in order to give information whether the loss hikers have been found.

19/10/2014 - BBC Breakfast News

This story is discussed once again but briefly on the BBC news morning tv show, the presenters are more relaxed and sat on a sofa, but once this story is discussed they reveal their serious tones and their posture become upright. However this time the global story has a more positive outlook as some hikers have been found, while the presenters speak about this images of hikers and family being reunited, images are shown of the happy families being reunited (down below) .

However once the positive story is discussed we are told that "It is the fifth day that Nepalese army and private helicopters have been searching for stranded climbers.It is not clear how many people may still be missing in the country's worst-ever trekking disaster. At least 39 people are known to have died" . Once this is discussed for a further few minutes, the news swaps to live footage of emergency services searching for the remaining hikers. This news story is presented differently to the previous day as details on the event are brief and the story is shown through either live footage or images with the presenters saying minimal information on the issue, this is because it is a morning weekend Tv programme which is watched by the target audience of woman and younger people before they go to work or after they have just woke up, so by showing the live footage it would show the seriousness of the event and make them pay for attention to the story.

This global headline was not broadcast live again, but was put on the BBC news website for a following 3 days, this is so people who had an interest in the story could look it up in order to find out if the remaining hikers had been found, and also more relevant and severe headlines were discussed such as continuous information on the ebola outbreak, this then left little information for the Nepal mountain hikers story, being the reason it was therefore posted on-line rather than globally broadcast on the news.