LONDON, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has upheld a complaint against one of its reporters who said during a radio broadcast she cried when watching a gravely ill Yasser Arafat being flown from the West Bank to France in 2004, according to a BBC website.

    In a dispatch for the "From Our Own Correspondent" program on Oct.30, 2004, Barbara Plett said she started to cry "when the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose from his ruined compound."

    After the radio broadcast, angry complaints from hundreds of listeners flooded into the BBC, accusing the report of being biased.

    The BBC Governors' Program Complaints committee, who initially cleared Plett, upheld part of an appeal, admitting she "breached the requirements of due impartiality." Enditem