BBC News comes in for fierce criticism for report on Shashi Kapoor...and why did they not just ask the team at the Asian Network?

Viewers took to social media to vent their frustration at the lack of empathy and even more shocking to many was how they featured a picture of Rishi Kapoor instead.

In fact during the segment they never used a picture of Shashi Kapoor who died yesterday aged 79.

BBC News just reported death of Shashi Kapoor with clips of Rishi Kapoor and Bachchan. 🤦🏽‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/HNO31n1sWr

— Junaid (@ibrownlad) December 4, 2017

#BBC News hire proper researchers! Report on legend #Shashi Kapoor's death and you show #Amitabh and his brother #Rishi Kapoor but no clip of him or his iconic movies. Call yourself a news channel?

— Mita Morris (@MitaMorris) December 4, 2017

Dear BBC, All Indian actors don't look alike. Big difference between the footage you aired of the actors. Surely, you can do better research next time? #ShashiKapoor  https://t.co/2d24FC9DxD

— Amrita Ghosh (@MsBiryani) December 5, 2017

Shocking to note @BBC insults a veteran actor Shashi Kapoor by showing clips of @SrBachchan & @chintskap whilst reporting his death today!!!@BBC must apologize!!! Clearly they have no clue.

RIP Shashi Kapoor 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/XMT4QJCy53

— GABBAR (@Gabbar_food) December 4, 2017

I'm really annoyed about the BBC Shashi Kapoor thing. DOES ANYONE GIVE A DAMN? If you do, please tweet the editor @paulroyall

— Aasmah Mir (@AasmahMir) December 4, 2017

@BBCNews At least show the picture of Veteran Actor Shashi Kapoor . BBC showing all other actors except his picture or video pic.twitter.com/6aups2hQrx

— RRaman Kumar (@RRamanKumar) December 4, 2017

Omg, BBC News paid a tribute to Shashi Kapoor, but included Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor instead!😂🤦🏽https://t.co/g08LPE4HSL

— BarfiCulture (@barficultureTV) December 5, 2017

@BBCNews what a tragedy- BBC pays tributes to Shashi Kapoor but shows clips of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor! Shocking

— Anurag Joshi (@Grrrrrrrr8) December 4, 2017

@BBCNews Shashi Kapoor dies and you show a clip of Amitabh Bachchan and then Rishi Kapoor. Why do I pay my licence fee for such shabby journalism? #bbc #shashikapoor

— Anjali Ewing (@AnjaliEwing) December 4, 2017

BBC News Editor Paul Royall apologised on Twitter, He said, "#BBCNewsTen is very sorry wrong images were used to mark the death of Shashi Kapoor. Not our usual standards and I apologise for any upset."

Maybe next time someone can just ask was the team at the Asian Network?

.@DJNoreenKhan remembers Shashi Kapoor with a whole hour of hits from the films he starred in. https://t.co/Esmu15bx85

— BBC Asian Network (@bbcasiannetwork) December 4, 2017