@gsymon it was laid out in detail on the #BBCWorldService again and again in the last 10 days

Perhaps this is a little Xmas/New Year present for some of you?

For the past year or so, I have been listening a lot to #Outlook on the #BBCworldservice: “True storis of ordinary people and the extraordinary things that have shaped their lives”. It gives such wisdom, inspiration and human connection, and really helps putting your own little woes in perspective. Just now I listened to Calvin Duncan’s story and would like you all to hear it, too!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6xd9?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Outlook - A jailhouse lawyer’s 28-year quest to prove his innocence - BBC Sounds

If you were wrongfully imprisoned, how far would you go to re-gain your freedom?

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UK voter concerned about #journalism ?
Ask your MP to sign EDM 793: Funding for the BBC World Service, calling for sustainable funding for the World Service as a vital source of accurate and trusted journalism to audiences worldwide
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The most curious interview i have heard today about Mamdani was this one on #BBCWorldService Newsday, with journalist Angelo Izama, about the times when he was a newspaper intern in Uganda - from 39.20 on this link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172zspy6ml51yl
BBC World Service - Newsday, Zohran Mamdani wins New York City's mayoral race

Mr Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, becomes the city's new mayor

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GRAPHIC CONTENT
More than 150 000 people were killed, 14 millions were force to flee their homes
#EyesOnSudan
In this thread quotes from #BBCWorldService progs and online pieces on the fall of #ElFasher in #Sudan and the unfolding massacre:
@PeterLG we cover it from time to time on the #BBCWorldService...

Morning, all,

#BBCWorldService interviewed a Palestinian who has become an expert in reconstruction, largely through having to do so much over the decades of destruction of Gaza's infrastructure by Israel.

The problem is huge (⬇️) but the expert was disparaging about the ignorance of Don Trumpeone, in assuming Gaza is a Tabula Rasa. It is not an empty desert, and with its 5,000 year history of habitation, rebuilding Gaza is not like building Las Vegas in Nevada.

#Trump
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5e4ee9r13o

'Worse than starting from scratch': how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?

BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

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#BBCWorldService reports that President Vladimir Putin spent more than two hours on the phone to President Don Trumpeone last night.

More. Than. Two. Hours.

Vlad must surely be wondering whether the war, sorry, the Special Military Operation he started in Ukraine is worth this hassle...

#SlavaUkrayini
#USpol #Trump
#GOP #MAGA #Krasnov

Good Morning, all,

#GoodNews from Chisinau - #BBCWorldService is reporting that the pro-#EU-membership party has decisively won Moldova's general election.

My happiness will be complete if the Untied Kingdom can also reject the Far Right (who are often the 'Useful Idiots' Putin uses to conduct his Hybrid Warfare against the West).

#BBCnews should take note; sadly, #R4Today is still inflating Niggle Farage's ego (if that's possible) by starring NF the 8am headlines.

https://www.dw.com/en/moldova-ruling-pro-eu-party-wins-election/live-74163154

Moldova: Ruling pro-EU party wins election

Moldovans voted in a high-stakes election to decide whether the country moves closer to the European Union or Russia. The defeated pro-Russian party has called for a protest against the results. Follow DW for more.

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On the #BBCWorldService now - witnesses in Western Sudan have accused the #RSF of forcibly drawing blood from captives, ceased as they tried to flee el-Fasher. One survivor told the Sudan Tribune newspaper that no medical precautions were taken and several people had died.