Marriage good, civil partnership bad

Newsround, according to Roy Milani - Head of CBBC News and Factual Programmes, is a UK-based programme which reflects British society and news. Mr Milani says Newsround will also report stories around the world if they consider them relevant enough to a young British audience.

Last summer Newsround reported a news item about a Nepalese couple who married thousands of miles away on Mount Everest.

The marriage was unusual for Nepal because the pair come from different castes, or social groups."If some people are loving each other they have to get married," Pem Dorjee told the BBC. "That's why we want to give all Nepali people [the message] that people are people so there's no problem about caste."

What a great pity Newsround failed to report the UK news in December when gay people loving each other were allowed to have a similar ceremony to marriage called a civil partnership.

Newsround is a UK-based programme which reflects British society and news. Yeah right!