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  1. Life Changes: looking at how we respond to change

    Steve Titherington

    Senior Commissioning Editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service

    Life Changes: looking at how we respond to change

    Steve Titherington, Commissioning Editor for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service English, talks about the new season, Life Changes.

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  2. Solar-powered classrooms and a smart wheelchair - Click reports on how Bangladesh tech is transforming lives

    Afroza Neela and Faisal Titumir

    ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Bangla

    Solar-powered classrooms and a smart wheelchair - Click reports on how Bangladesh tech is transforming lives

    Have you heard about Sputnique – a portable, solar-powered multimedia classroom? The super-mobile kit allows Bangladeshi teachers to hold classes anywhere, particularly after natural disasters like flooding or cyclones.

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  3. Beyond Fake News: why the World Service is putting a spotlight on distortion and manipulation

    Marie Helly

    Assistant Editor, Beyond Fake News

    Beyond Fake News: why the World Service is putting a spotlight on distortion and manipulation

    What is fake news? What’s real? What’s distortion? Should we use the term fake news at all? These were the questions we grappled with putting together the Beyond Fake News season. The term is being weaponised, becoming contentious and even toxic.

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  4. The world’s first blind war correspondent and football commentator? ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Arabic supporting journalists with disabilities

    Haidar Albaseer

    ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ AimHigh scheme freelance journalist, Baghdad

    The world’s first blind war correspondent and football commentator? ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Arabic supporting journalists with disabilities

    Journalists with disabilities from around the Arab world recently completed three weeks of training in London as part of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Arabic’s AimHigh scheme.

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  5. Why we broadcast what Jamal Khashoggi told us three days before he disappeared

    Jo Floto

    Editor, The World Tonight, Newshour

    Why we broadcast what Jamal Khashoggi told us three days before he disappeared

    Some people have questioned the decision by Newshour and The World Tonight to broadcast the words of Jamal Khashoggi recorded shortly before the formal start of an interview. So I'd like to explain how we arrived at that decision.

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  6. App around the world with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Learning English

    Paul Scott

    Editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Learning English

    App around the world with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Learning English

    Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. There are seven continents, and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Learning English has audiences in six of them - perhaps, by the end of reading this blog post, all seven.

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  7. 1 year anniversary for Indian languages

    Ankur Jain / Ashish Dikshit / Atul Sangar and Ram Mohan

    Editors, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu

    1 year anniversary for Indian languages

    Many people treated the news of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳’s plan to launch four new language services in India as a rumour.

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  8. 'If Europe's ports are underwater, Brexit may seem less important': we're expanding climate change coverage

    Jo Floto

    Editor, The World Tonight, Newshour

    'If Europe's ports are underwater, Brexit may seem less important': we're expanding climate change coverage

    From 3 October The World Tonight on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 and Newshour on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service will be covering climate change every week.

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  9. North and South: a year of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Korean

    Su-Min Hwang

    News Editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Korean

    North and South: a year of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Korean

    If your view of the world were shaped by the North Korean newspapers - they are available online, and I look at them every day - Kim Jong-un would certainly be at its centre.

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  10. A year of three new ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ services for Ethiopia and Eritrea

    Rachael Akidi Okwir

    Head of East Africa, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service

    A year of three new ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ services for Ethiopia and Eritrea

    Rachael Akidi, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service Head of East Africa, celebrates first anniversary of the launch of three new UK-government-funded language services for Ethiopia and Eritrea, and looks at what the future holds.

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