Sopel regularly presented the programme on location around the world and in this case it is broadcast in part on the BBC News channel.

Sopel was promoted to North America Editor in 2014, and was succeeded in September by Matthew Amroliwala.

The programme is spiritually replaced by Verified Live, which aims at fact-checking of news based on confirmed facts and sources.

Dumor died on 18 January 2014 in his Hertfordshire, England home after a cardiac arrest, having been on air the day before.

"[8] Mirchandani resigned from the BBC in October 2014; he has since become the Senior Director of Communications at the Center for Global Development.