The BBC received at least 500 complaints after its broadcaster said she “started to cry” when an ill Yasser Arafat left for a Paris hospital. Barbara Plett, BBC’s Middle East correspondent, reported Oct. 30 on a BBC radio program her impressions of the Palestinian Authority president’s departure.
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