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Congratulations to our @bbcworldservice teams recognised at the 2026 PRIX EUROPA awards!
🏆 World of Secrets: Death in Dubai won Best European Audio Investigation of the Year.
🏆 No Justice, Just Kills received a Special Commendation in the Video Investigation category.
World of Secrets: Death in Dubai
📺Watch: youtu.be/OboT09uRw6M
🎧Listen: @BBCSounds & wherever you get your podcasts: bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w27vq…
No Justice, Just Kills
📺Watch in English: youtu.be/v4WycNKcfyU
📺Watch in Arabic: youtu.be/Ebk4ZHUrEqk
Statement on BBC services in Afghanistan
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Rachel Jupp appointed as Director, BBC News and Current Affairs
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A "brilliant, brave, empathetic reporter"
RIP
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Press Gazette - Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: BBC hits one billion visits
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The @BBCWorldService will host the Trust is Earned disinformation forum in Lagos on 3 September 2026.
The day will feature a live BBC programme recording, an exclusive BBC Eye documentary screening, panel discussions, workshops and live demonstrations.
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BBC statement on the new restrictions imposed by the Pakistani authorities to limit the movement of international media
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The Mangione Trial podcast from @bbcworldservice is back from 11 August and will report from Luigi Mangione’s trial this September in New York.
Read more here: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/t…
This weekend, journey to Turkey’s Aegean coast with historian @DrJaninaRamirez to explore ancient ruins and epic myths in ‘World’s Ultimate Adventures: The Land of Troy’🏛️🐎
Watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer or outside the UK on BBC News this Saturday at 2:30 & 15:30 and Sunday at 9:30 & 18:30 (all times GMT)
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BBC News increased its audience reach to 467 million every week (up 12% year-on-year). The BBC World Service delivered over 70% of the BBC’s international audience reach, attracting 355 million people weekly (up 14% year-on-year).
BBC reveals record-breaking global audience figures of over half a billion
Across BBC News, the BBC World Service and content distributed by BBC Studios, the BBC saw its international audience grow to 502 million people – up 11% year-on-year.
More ➡️ bbc.in/3SRrXhB
ALT 502 million weekly global audience is written in white text against the background of an image of a pair of hands holding a mobile phone.
🗣️ “Journalism that combines courage, discipline and public-interest reporting"
🏆 Congrats to @BBCPanorama and @HannahOGrady for scooping the 2026 Orwell Prize for Journalism, for its long-running investigation into UK Special Forces.
The investigation uncovered classified operations and found evidence of unlawful killings by the SAS.
On 9 and 10 July @BBCWorldService will be bringing the BBC Future of Journalism Festival to Nairobi, featuring leading journalists and media voices from across Africa and beyond for two days of panel discussions, workshops and live podcast recordings
Find out more ⬇️
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The News at Six and Ten has been rescheduled today because of the World Cup
We’ll have live coverage on BBC One all afternoon with the latest on the PM’s resignation, plus BBC News Specials at 16:30–17:30 and 20:30–21:30, presented by @SophieRaworth from Downing Street
Double win for BBC World Service Eye current affairs at the @onewm Awards!
📌 Darfur: Siege and Massacres
📌 Colombia: Petroleum, Pollution & Paramilitaries
Congratulations to our editorial teams and the brave contributors who made these investigations possible.
You can watch the documentaries here:
Colombia: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Darfur: youtu.be/bfJF2bOtKn0?is=kPJQ…
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BBC statement on @bbcquestiontime
“Question Time always considers panel selection carefully.
"With 14 candidates running in the Makerfield by-election, we are unable to have every candidate or party on the panel. We have selected five panel members based on past and current electoral support in the constituency, including in recent local elections and the last general election.
“The programme will, however, ensure the audience is given appropriate information about the other candidates.
“We recognise the multi-party nature of UK politics and are committed to ensuring different parties are appropriately covered for audiences across all our platforms.”
Newsnight
BBC Two, 2 June 2026
In an interview about the murder of 18 year old Henry Nowak, we mistakenly quoted the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as saying people should respond to his death with a “white, cold rage”. To be clear Mr Farage actually said “pure, cold rage” as had been stated earlier in the programme and we apologise to him for this error. The programme has been removed from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
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Fiona Crack, Interim Global Director, BBC News, speaks with Rodrigo Carvalho, @GloboNews, about the importance of journalism and its role today @sxswlndn
#SXSWLondon
ALT Fiona Crack, Global Director, BBC News, speaks to Rodrigo Carvalho, Globo
Last night @BBCNews was recognised for its coverage of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake and its aftermath, winning in the ‘Outstanding Continuing Coverage: Short Form’ category at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage: Short Form goes to Earthquake in Myanmar (@BBCWorld).
“Independent and impartial news has never been more important”
BBC World Service is launching BBC News Magyarul (Hungarian) and BBC News Romania (Romanian), aided by AI translation technology, following the success of BBC News Polska (Polish).
This means that from this summer, BBC World Service will be available in 45 languages.
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/b…
Featuring eye-witness accounts and previously unseen archive footage, @bbcworldservice has announced a landmark documentary on the Nigerian Civil War, directed by award-winning Nigerian filmmaker Meji Alabi
Surviving Biafra will be available to stream from Monday 1 June on BBC iPlayer and YouTube
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/g…
