Showing posts with label BBC Arabic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC Arabic. Show all posts

Sunday, February 11, 2024

BBC HARDtalk: Abdalla Hamdok Former PM of Sudan

THANKS to a Sudanese reader in England for sending in a link to this interview aired on 1 Feb 2024. Let's hope Dr Hamdok stays strong and well. He is a thoroughly decent man with the calmness and patience of a saint. Sudan needs more great humanitarians and peacemakers like him.


BBC TV interview

HARDtalk

Abdalla Hamdok - Former Prime Minister of Sudan


Zeinab Badawi speaks to the former prime minister of Sudan Abdalla Hamdok. He is at the heart of the negotiations to bring peace to the country after ten months of conflict in which thousands have died and millions have been displaced. Can his efforts succeed?


Click here to see the full interview, free of charge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vypz/hardtalk-abdalla-hamdok-former-prime-minister-of-sudan

Duration 25 mins

First shown 1 Feb 2024

Available for 11 months

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POSTSCRIPT from Sudan Watch Editor


The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster with a royal charter. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in London, England, United Kingdom.


Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on 1 January 1927. 


The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,900 are in public-sector broadcasting.


The BBC is funded by the British people. Every household, company and organisation in the UK pays a compulsory Licence Fee. Currently, a household Licence Fee averages £13.25 GBP per month. All households with people over 75 are entitled to a free TV Licence paid by the BBC.

Photo: The new extension to the BBC's Broadcasting House, completed in 2012. Source: Wikipedia


The BBC proudly belongs to the nation and ensures that the BBC's radio, television and online services are made freely available, without commercial advertising, to anyone, anywhere in the world including free access to its unrivalled databases of news, reports, interviews, discussions, education, podcasts, dramas, films, documentaries, music, entertainment and catch-up. 


The BBC World Service is an international news service available on radio, television and online. It provides impartial news reports and analysis in English and 40 other languages including ArabicPersian and Pidgin. Click here to read about BBC World Service radio and how to receive it. 


Click here to get the BBC's news in your language. Note that emergency radio services are offered and provided by the BBC to countries where there is war and/or little radio, television, telecoms, internet infrastructure.

Photo: Television pioneer John Logie Baird (seen here in 1917) televised the BBC's first drama, The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, on 14 July 1930, and the first live outside broadcast, The Derby, on 2 June 1931. 

John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube. Source: Wikipedia

Photo: BBC Scotland building, BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow, Scotland which was opened in 2007. Source: Wikipedia

Photo: A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jenning was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in  London. Source: Wikipedia

Photo: The main entrance to Broadcasting House in 2019. Source: Wikipedia

Read more at Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

UPDATE Mon 12 Feb 2024: added last lines to intro, changed Saint to saint.

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Friday, May 26, 2023

MSF says Sudan healthcare situation is dire. BBC says attacks on hospitals and staff are potential war crimes

ONLY A HANDFUL of the 88 hospitals in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, remain open after weeks of fighting, according to Sudan's Doctors Union. Both sides in Sudan's conflict could be carrying out war crimes on medical facilities and staff, according to evidence seen by BBC News Arabic. Read more. Report at BBC News
Dated Friday 26 May 2023 - excerpt:
Sudan conflict: Hospital attacks potential war crimes, BBC told

Both sides in Sudan's conflict could be carrying out war crimes on medical facilities and staff, according to evidence seen by BBC News Arabic.

Hospitals have been hit by airstrikes and artillery fire while patients were still in the building and doctors have also been singled out for attack - all of which are potential war crimes. 

Only a handful of the 88 hospitals in the capital, Khartoum, remain open after weeks of fighting, according to Sudan's Doctors Union.

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Tuesday, May 02, 2023

New BBC Arabic radio service airs in Sudan twice daily at 9am on 21,510 kHz and 5pm on 15,310kHz

NOTE from Sudan Watch Editor: Good news. The BBC World Service has launched a new Arabic emergency radio service for Sudan. It starts today Tuesday 2 May 2023 at 3pm GMT (4pm BST, 5pm local time).

The Arabic emergency radio service for Sudan airs twice daily on short wave in Sudan at 7am GMT (8am BST, 9am local time) on 21,510 kHz and at 3pm GMT (4pm BST, 5pm local time) on 15,310kHz

Broadcast live in London, it will bring live updates of the situation on the ground, info on how to access life-saving resources, essential supplies and services, as well as analysis from voices inside and outside Sudan.


The new service for Sudan, launching this afternoon, will be available on radio, online and across social media. 


Read full story at BBC News Media

Published: 12:01 am, Tuesday 2 May 2023

BBC World Service launches emergency radio service for Sudan

The programme, which will be broadcast live in London with input from teams in Amman and Cairo, will air on short wave in Sudan and be available on radio, online and across social media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-world-service-launches-emergency-radio-service-for-sudan


Also, here by Paul Glynn, BBC News, Tue 2 May 2023:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65447051

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BBC News Arabic and Twitter


الرئيسية - BBC News عربي - BBC News Arabic

https://www.bbc.com/arabic


BBC News عربي - Twitter
@BBCArabic

BBC Arabic - عاجل - Twitter

@bbcarabicalerts

https://twitter.com/BBCArabicAlerts

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Note, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the national broadcaster of the UK, based at Broadcasting House in London, England. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcast operator in the world with a staff of over 35,400. It is funded by an annual licence fee of £159.00 paid by each household in the UK to enable the BBC to remain independent and free without sponsors, adverts, shareholders.

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Friday, June 21, 2019

LATEST BBC NEWS: Arabic TV satellite frequencies, Shortwave English radio, Arabic and Persian News TV Radio Podcasts Twitter, World Service, Pidgin Africa

BBC Arabic TV is on these satellite frequencies for Mid East and Africa:

Hot Bird 13B 11727 V / 27500 / 3/4
Hot Bird 13D 11117 V / 27500 / 3/4
Badr 4 11996 H / 27500 / 3/4
Nilesat 102 12207 V / 27500 / 3/4




On the web BBC Arabic and Persian News TV Radio Podcasts Twitter, World Service Africa Podcast, Pidgin, click here:

Internet BBC Arabic News TV Radio
Twitter BBC Arabic @BBCArabic
Internet BBC Persian News TV Radio
Twitter BBC Persian @bbcpersian

Internet BBC World Service Africa Podcast

Internet BBC NEWS Pidgin Minute
The links above are now listed in the sidebar here at Sudan Watch.