The BBC refused yesterday to remove footage of two British soldiers killed in Iraq from a documentary, this despite pressure from the prime minister, the minister of defense and the soldiers’ families. A BBC spokesperson said it’s in the public interest to show a seven-second clip of the bodies as part of a film about the Arab TV station Al Jazeera. The program deals with the differences in coverage of the war between the Arab world and the West. Tony Blair stepped in after the BBC declined to accept calls from the Defense Department and the families of the two men.