SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2023

SAT 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnfltt)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 00:06 The Real Story (w3ct33q7)
How do you stop police brutality?

Five ex-police officers have been charged with second-degree murder after beating Tyre Nichols, 29, who was black, during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee. He died three days later.

Nichols’ death has sparked protests and fresh calls for reform of the police in Memphis and nationwide. Over the past years, the US has been in the spotlight for police brutality. Public outcry against the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks - to name a few - at the hands of the police led to Black Lives Matter protests across the globe.

It's not just the US grappling with the problem of police brutality. We take a global look at the problem. Which countries are getting it right? Can policing ever be effective without violence? And is reform or a more radical rethink needed?

Ritula Shah is joined by:

Dr DeLacy Davis is the founder of Black Cops Against Police Brutality and the author of Black Cops Against Police Brutality: A Crisis Action Plan. He is a retired New Jersey police sergeant who served for 20 years in the East Orange police department and commanded the Community Services Unit.

Alex Vitale is a Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College - part of the City University of New York. He is also the coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the author of a number of books including The End of Policing

Zoha Waseem is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick and author of Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi

Also featuring:

Rune Glomseth, Associate Professor at Norway’s Police University College in Oslo


SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnfqky)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172ydq9zb2fmh9)
Super Bowl: Who's your money on?

One of 2023's biggest and most lucrative sporting events takes place at the weekend. It's the 57th Super Bowl, and the first which will allow mass betting in the US market. Away from the field, we take a look at the winners and losers.

(Picture: The State Farm Stadium in Arizona. Credit: Getty Images.)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnfvb2)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0f5yg)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd8846lg)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3ct371x)
R Sridhar: My years with Shastri, Kohli and Dhoni

On this week’s episode of Stumped, R Sridhar takes us into the heart of the India dressing room. The former fielding coach for the men’s national side worked alongside the likes of Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Ravi Shastri between 2014 and 2021 and in his new book, ‘Coaching Beyond: My Days with the India Cricket Team’, he reveals details of conversations between the trio which have never previously been reported. He tells us about Shastri’s integrity as head coach, Kohli’s unbeatable work rate as a player and captain, and having to keep Dhoni’s retirement a secret.

Eleanor Oldroyd speaks to Pakistan all-rounder Nida Dar ahead of their Women’s T20 World Cup opener with India in South Africa. Dar, who has recently been named in the ICC’s Women’s T20I Team of the Year for 2022, says they're aiming to reach at least the semi-finals.

Plus, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma discuss the thrilling Big Bash League final which saw Perth Scorchers win their fifth title.

Photo: The India fielding coach Ramakrishnan Sridhar looks on prior to game one of the Twenty20 International series between Australia and India at Manuka Oval in Canberra, Australia. (Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnfz26)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct380j)
Reporting the earthquake

We hear from some of the language service journalists reporting on the catastrophic earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. Fundanur Öztürk from BBC Turkish travelled to Hatay, one of the worst hit cities, while BBC Arabic's Nisrine Hatoum was on holiday in Turkey at the time and quickly switched to reporting the disaster. Meanwhile her colleague Dina Waqqaf is Syrian, and plans to travel to the earthquake zone in northern Syria.

Fear, boredom or nostalgia? Why did so many older Brazilians take part in the January riot?
The prevailing age group among the more than 1,000 people arrested for storming government buildings in Brasilia a month ago was between 50 and 59 years old. So why was it this age category specifically who felt motivated to act in this way? Paula Adamo Idoeta of BBC Brasil tells us about her investigation.

Not quite the world's tallest man
29-year-old Ghanaian Sulemana Abdul Samed was diagnosed with gigantism a few years ago. BBC Pidgin's Favour Nunoo met him to hear about the difficulties of living with this condition, and to help Sulemana find out exactly how tall he now is.

Making change in India
BBC Marathi reporters Janhavee Moole, Mayuresh Konnur and Amruta Durve have travelled across the state of Maharashtra to tell the stories of people inspired by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi to change lives around them. The resulting projects include a women-only bank in a rural town, and a school for city street children who beg at traffic lights.

(Photo: A man walks down the rubble of a collapsed building in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, close to the epicentre. Credit: ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3ct3bxs)
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'

On 11 February 2013, Benedict XVI shocked the world by becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to quit. All other popes in the modern era had held the position from election until death.

He said he was resigning because of old age. Little known journalist Giovanna Chirri got the world exclusive on the story. She shares her memories of that time with Matt Pintus.

(Photo: Pope Benedict XVI. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjng2tb)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3ct33q7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:06 today]


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjng6kg)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0fk5v)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd884ktv)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 05:32 The Explanation (w3ct4m2c)
How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war

After almost a decade of fighting, civil war in Yemen has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Nawal Al-Maghafi is a Special Correspondent with the BBC who has been reporting on the Middle East since 2012. She explains to Claire Graham how this complex war began between government backed forces and the Houthi rebels.

Presenter: Claire Graham
Producer: Owen McFadden


SAT 05:50 More or Less (w3ct3k5z)
Spreadsheet disasters

The UK’s Office for National Statistics recently published some dramatically incorrect data - all because of a spreadsheet slip-up. But that’s just the most recent in a long list of times when spreadsheets have gone wrong, often with costly consequences

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker takes us through a short history of spreadsheet mistakes.

Presenter:Tim Harford
Producer: Nathan Gower
Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: John Scott

(Financial analyst using spreadsheet software. Credit: Andrey Popov/Getty Images)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngb9l)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw1nnt)
US shoots down unidentified object off Alaska

The US has shot down an unidentified object over Alaska days after a US fighter jet downed a Chinese spy balloon that had travelled for nearly a week across the United States.

Also in the programme: Aid agencies steps up rescue efforts in the earthquake hit regions of Turkey and Syria.

Teachers from across Portugal are expected to descend on Lisbon later today for a demonstration to press for better pay and working conditions.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Julie Norman, associate professor in Politics and International Relations at University College, London and Vedi Hadiz, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

(Photo: Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft fly over the Alaska-Canada Highway en route to their new home at the 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 21, 2020. U.S. Air National Guard/Tech. Sgt. Adam Keele/Handout via REUTERS.)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngg1q)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw1sdy)
Aid agencies call for further access to earthquake victims

Aid agencies have called for further access as they battle to reach victims of Monday's earthquake in Syria.

Also in the programme: The United States is preparing a defence strategy to counter growing Russian presence in the Arctic.

And we find out if fiction writers should accept editorial advice from "sensitivity readers."

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Julie Norman, associate professor in Politics and International Relations at University College, London and Vedi Hadiz, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

(Picture: A girl is carried after being rescued in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Jandaris, Syria February 10, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. White Helmets/via REUTERS)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngksv)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw1x52)
Turkey and Syria earthquake death toll rise to 24 000

More than twenty-four thousand people are now known to have died in Monday's earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and millions more left homeless.

Also in the programme: The US has shot down an unidentified object over Alaska at the order of President Biden. The action comes less than a week after a US fighter jet downed a Chinese spy balloon that had travelled for nearly a week across the United States.

Teachers from across Portugal are expected to descend on Lisbon in later today for a demonstration to press for better pay and working conditions.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Julie Norman, associate professor in Politics and International Relations at University College, London and Vedi Hadiz, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

(Picture: People mourn their relatives at a mass grave area following a major earthquake in Baris village near Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras, southeastern Turkey, 10 February 2023. Over 22,000 people were killed and thousands more were injured after two major earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on 06 February. Authorities fear the death toll will keep climbing as rescuers look for survivors across the region. Credit: Photo by SEDAT SUNA/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd884y27)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 08:32 The Conversation (w3ct37n5)
Women leading the tech revolution in Africa

In the past few years, the internet has been spreading rapidly across Africa. The continent has nearly half of the world’s mobile money accounts, and a thriving start-up ecosystem. But in sub-Saharan Africa, women make up a very small percentage of the tech workforce. Kim Chakanetsa talks to two entrepreneurs who believe that teaching women and girls how to code could be a game changer.

Rachel Sibande is a computer scientist and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of mHub, Malawi’s first technology hub. During her career she has developed innovative tech solutions in fields like health, elections monitoring, citizen engagement and agriculture in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. She also works with the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations Foundation, leading the efforts to facilitate a digital revolution across Africa.

Baratang Miya is the founder of Girlhype Coders Academy, which has taught more than 10,000 women and girls how to code. Baratang has been named among the 50 People Who Made the Internet a Better Place in 2016 and has received a TechWomen scholarship to train in the Silicon Valley. She is also a regular technology writer, judge, advisor in tech competitions and hackathons.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Hetal Bapodra

(Image: (L) Baratang Miya, courtesy Baratang Miya. (R) Rachel Sibande, credit Ulemu Nkhoma.)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngpjz)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct418s)
The earthquake in Turkey and Syria

We have been hearing from people in Turkey and Syria since the earthquake struck the region on Monday. Three survivors tell us about their escape from shaking buildings onto bitterly cold streets, including Canan who was staying in a hotel in Gazientep: “We were in PJs,” she says. “We were barefoot and people were screaming and crying.”

It’s an anxious and emotional time for relatives watching from abroad. Germany is home to the largest Turkish diaspora in the world and we bring together Aeyna and Hazal, as well as Khalil, who has close family in Aleppo in Syria. They share their experiences of tragedy and hope with host, James Reynolds.

With the scale of the disaster so overwhelming, we also hear from two aid workers about the rescue efforts. We speak to Salah Aboulgasem, from Islamic Relief in southern Turkey and Ismail Alabdullah a volunteer with the White Helmets in Syria. Salah tells us that it’s the worst disaster he has ever seen and that in one town more than two thirds of the buildings have been destroyed

We hope that by sharing these personal stories from the past week, we can all better understand and appreciate what it’s been like for a few of the millions of people impacted by the earthquake.

(Photo: An aerial view of damage, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 10, 2023. Credit: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd8851tc)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 09:32 Pick of the World (w3ct41y2)
A balloon floats into 1.5 million Facebook feeds

The balloon mystery that floated into 1.5 million of your Facebook feeds this week. The latest on the Turkey and Syria earthquakes, the doctor who saved a fellow passenger in mid-air - and fine dining, are we all a bit over it?


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3ct35tj)
Personal recollections of BBC Arabic Radio

After 85 years, BBC Arabic radio recently ended its broadcasts - we take stock of your feedback with personal recollections of what the radio service meant to you.

Plus, we go behind-the-scenes of the BBC’s Pronunciation Department - and hear from newsreader Moira Alderson about how it helps her present a bulletin.

Presenter Rajan Datar
Producer Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngt93)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w3ct363k)
Sportshour at the Super Bowl

A unique look at the most watched annual sporting event in the world the Super Bowl, this year hosted in Phoenix, Arizona.

Whilst the Super Bowl is the ultimate dream, sometimes that dream becomes a nightmare. 8 long years of slugging it out in the NFL had made Joe Hawley tired both physically and mentally. When the Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s season ended in 2018, Hawley not only made the momentous decision to give up the game, he also decided to give away all his earthly belongings! He bought a van and for the next 2 years travelled the country with his appropriately named dog “Freedom”. Joe tells about that journey, and what finally stopped him living on the road.

Carter Crosland is a high school football coach from Wickenburg, Arizona, but he’s not just any football coach. Born without arms or legs he was determined nothing was going to stop him being involved with the game he loves. He tells us his inspiring story and how he has overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges to flourish in the world of American Football.

This will be the first time in two black quarterbacks will play in the Super Bowl. We’ll look at the impact 35 years on from Doug Williams becoming the first black quarterback at a Super Bowl. We’ll preview the Half Time show and find out how it has become such a big event, and look at why companies are prepared to pay $7m for a thirty second advert during the game and what makes a great Super Bowl advert.

Plus we’ll be exploring the indigenous people of Arizona and the important role that sport plays in their community and how it has served as a bridge between the indigenous community and the rest of Arizona and with Arizona on the border of Mexico, immigration is a big issue. We speak to the first Mexican to play in the NBA. Horacio Llamas played for the Phoenix Suns and in the process broke down barriers.

Photo: A freeway billboard advertising Super Bowl LXII in Phoenix, Arizona (Credit: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjngy17)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0g8nm)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd88599m)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 11:32 The Climate Question (w3ct3kk7)
How is India doing in the fight against climate change?

India has made a lot of climate pledges in the last couple of years. They’ve had mixed reviews. Some have applauded the country’s ambition – including committing to a net zero target - while others argue it’s still too reliant on coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels. India is already facing the brutal impacts of a warming planet and, with a population of around 1.4 billion, its energy demand is huge – and growing. But there are reasons to be optimistic. We travel to a rural area near Mumbai to hear about the benefits of solar energy and get a temperature check from BBC Marathi’s Janhavee Moole on what people are discussing locally.

We also speak to two experts to better understand how we can rate India’s commitments compared with other countries as well as the barriers it could face as it transitions to a greener economy.

Presenters Graihagh Jackson and Janhavee Moole are joined by:
Dr Nandini Das, an Energy Research and Policy Analyst at Climate Analytics
Harjeet Singh from The Climate Action Network based in Delhi

Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.com

Producers: Mora Morrison, Sophie Eastaugh and Ivana Davidovic
Researcher: Natasha Fernandes
Production Coordinator: Siobhan Reed
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnh1sc)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 12:06 The Documentary (w3ct4xcl)
World Wide Waves '23: The sounds of community radio

For World Radio Day, we celebrate four vibrant community radio stations on four continents, tuning in to their sounds, their music, and their missions. Northern Malawi’s Rumphi FM supports the Tumbuka tribe while giving young women a space to speak out against early marriage and for education.

From Budapest, Radio Dikh broadcasts “about the Roma, but not just for the Roma,” presenting Romany culture in its own distinctive voice.

In Nunavik, Northern Quebec, Inuit radio beams Inuktitut music and talk to 14 remote villages, helping to keep an ancient language and threatened tradition alive.

And in civil-war-torn Myanmar, brave journalists risk their lives to resist the military dictatorship with news and views sent out from portable transmitters, sometimes under fire.

Presenter: Maria Margaronis
Producer: David Goren

(Photo: The staff of Rumphi FM. Credit: Rumphi FM)


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnh5jh)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172yfcg1qfkqgs)
UN humanitarian chief visits epicentre of Turkey’s earthquake

UN humanitarian chief martin Griffiths visits epicentre of Turkey’s earthquake; also in the programme Iran marks the anniversary of the Islamic revolution after months of anti-government demonstrations; and British MPs enraged by a planned visit of the governor of China’s Xinjiang province.


(Photo: Rescuers going through rubble in Kahramanmaras. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnh98m)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172ygk657vhz9d)
Live Sporting Action

Sportsworld this Saturday will have commentary of Premier League leaders Arsenal taking on Brentford at the Emirates Stadium. Joining Lee James will be the former Premier League midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker and current Everton goalkeeper Asmir Begovic. The guests will chat about Everton’s season so far and react to the early kick-off between West Ham and Chelsea.

We’ll also have the latest from the Six Nations, the test series between India and Australia as well as the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa. We’ll also be gearing up to Superbowl 57 and chatting about the legacy of Lebron James after he broke the NBA scoring record.

Photo: Bukayo Saka of Arsenal during the Premier League match between Everton FC and Arsenal FC at Goodison Park on February 4, 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo by Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnhs84)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0h3wj)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd8864jj)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 18:32 The Explanation (w3ct4m2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct36gv)
The Vatican's mini-World Cup

In 2007, the first ever Clericus Cup was played, with trainee priests from the Vatican City's seminaries competing.

It was an effort to present a different image of football, following various Italian scandals.

Don Davide Tisato, the captain of the winning team and a former professional footballer, has been speaking to Laura Jones, along with Felice Alborghetti from the Centro Sportivo Italiano.

(Photo: Davide Tisato lifting the Clericus Cup with his team Redemptoris Mater. Credit: Centro Sportivo Italiano Archive)


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnhx08)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 19:06 World Questions (w3ct3hny)
Iceland

Iceland is known for its rugged wilderness, booming tourist industry and a high standard of living. But this small nation in the North Atlantic is not immune from the challenges facing the rest of the world. Rising inflation is making it harder for young people to afford a home of their own. And as the globe warms, glaciers are melting and the landscape that draws so many visitors is changing.

Jonny Dymond is in Reykjavik with a public audience and panel of leading politicians and commentators to debate the big issues facing this ancient democracy, including whale hunting, immigration, sustainable tourism and how to protect Iceland’s unique culture from increasing globalisation.

On the panel:
Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
Dagur B. Eggertsson: Mayor of Reykjavík City
Benedikt Erlingsson: Film director, producer and actor
Sigrídur Mogensen: Director at the Federation of Icelandic Industries

Producer: Steven Williams

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council, which connects the UK and the world through arts, culture, education and the English language.

(Photo: Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavik. Credit: Raimund Franken/ullstein bild via Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnj0rd)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct391g)
Director Santiago Mitre on his film Argentina, 1985

Nikki Bedi is joined by director Camilla Hall to talk about her documentary film, Subject and by the actor and writer Storme Toolis.

They’ll hear from director M. Night Shyamalan on his latest film, Knock at the Cabin and about trying to win his parents’ approval.

Nikki talks to writer and director Santiago Mitre about his Oscar nominated historical drama, Argentina, 1985.

Filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses her award winning documentary film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed focusing on the artist and activist Nan Goldin.

Screenwriter Leslie Paterson explains how her sporting success helped fund her script for Oscar nominated All Quiet on the Western Front.

And there’s music from sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar.

(Photo: Santiago Mitre. Credit: Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnj4hj)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcg1qflpft)
UN Relief Chief: Turkey earthquake 'worst natural disaster'

The UN’s humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has described the earthquake in Turkey as the worst natural disaster he’d ever seen in his decades of humanitarian work. While visiting the Turkish city of Kahramanmasa he told the BBC that the UN would work actively and firmly to open more crossings into north west Syria where so little aid has arrived.

Also in the programme: we hear from the WHO Syria representative in Aleppo; and a reporter who's crossed into parts of northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed militias.

(Photo: Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, gestures during a presser in Maras, Turkey, 11 February 11 2023. Credit: Reuters/Emilie Madi)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnj87n)
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SAT 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9hgc7897)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SAT 22:20 Sports News (w172yghk8sn5c8y)
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd886mj1)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SAT 22:32 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct37sr)
Fiction and our climate emergency

Authors from around the world tell us why and how they reflect on our global climate crisis in their stories. Tina Daheley talks to three authors about the challenges and opportunities in putting climate change in their books - how to be realistic but encourage the reader to take action rather than despair.

Bestselling thriller writer Peter May joins us from France. His new book, A Winter Grave, uses crime fiction to get a climate message across to readers who might not expect it.

Bijal Vachharajani in India writes and commissions books for children. Her books include A Cloud Called Bhura, So You Want to Know About the Environment, and Savi and the Memory Keeper. 

And Pitchaya Sudbanthad was born in Thailand in the city which lends its name to his book, Bangkok Wakes To Rain.

Producer: Paul Waters

(Image: Concept illustration of an open book and tree with one side burning. Credit: SIphotography)


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjczs)
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SAT 23:06 Music Life (w3ct30l6)
Creating space to disappear with Sarathy Korwar, Nwando Ebizie, Sandunes and Abel Selaocoe

Sarathy Korwar, Nwando Ebizie, Sandunes and Abel Selaocoe discuss diversifying the classical music space, balancing capitalistic forces with creativity, and creating space in which to disappear.

Sarathy Korwar is a composer and percussionist whose music combines jazz, Indian classical, Indian folk and electronic influences. His latest record, KALAK, explores what the past, present and future are, and how they interact.

Nwando Ebizie is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work combines music, performance art and ritualistic dance from the African diaspora. She has released music under the alter ego Lady Vendredi, who she describes as a time-travelling pop star from another dimension.

Sanaya Ardeshir, AKA Sandunes, is a composer, producer and pianist from Mumbai, India, who incorporates elements of dance and jazz to create something wholly unique. She describes her sound as rhythmic meditations on the future of pop and electronic music.

Abel Selaocoe is a South African cellist and singer whose work blends everything from African dance rhythms to 18th-Century sonatas. His latest record, Where Is Home, wanders through his musical life so far, which sees him beatboxing a song about his nephew and singing counter melodies taught to him by his mother.

SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2023

SUN 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjhqx)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SUN 00:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct418s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:06 on Saturday]


SUN 00:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd886w09)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


SUN 00:32 The Explanation (w3ct4m2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 on Saturday]


SUN 00:50 More or Less (w3ct3k5z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:50 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjmh1)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SUN 01:06 The Science Hour (w3ct3b0h)
Turkey-Syria earthquake

In the early hours of Monday, a powerful earthquake hit Kahramanmaras in Turkey. Nine hours later another struck. When this edition of Science in Action first aired, 19,000 people were reported to have died, but that number was expected to rise.

Back in 2016, Professor Asli Garagon and her colleagues accurately predicted that an earthquake of this size was coming. Using GPS, they were monitoring the East Anatolian fault to calculate energy building between the plates. With such accurate insight could Turkey have been better prepared?

Ross Stein, seismologist and founder of Temblor, a Californian consultancy that specialises in assessing hazard risk, estimates the plates moved at 5,000 mph. The movement of the plates may have built up pressure in other parts of the country.

And finally, Tiziana Rossetto, a civil engineer at University College London, knows better than most that earthquakes do not kill, buildings do. She tells Roland how the combination of earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks appear to have even destroyed buildings that were purposely built to withstand them.

Also, Why does the thought of giving a talk to an audience fill so many of us with sheer terror? Marnie Chesterton investigates for listener Nhial, who has seen his fellow students in Morocco become panic stricken at the prospect and wants to know the reason for our anxiety. According to one study, 77 per cent of us share that fear.

Marnie finds out about the relationship between stress, our brains and our voices from research associate Dr Maria Dietrich at the University Hospital, Bonn University. She talks to Nhial’s tutor, Professor Taoufik Jaafari, at Hassan II University of Casablanca about the challenges facing his students. And she visits the National Theatre in London to get some expert training from Jeannette Nelson, head of voice, who works with some of the world’s leading actors.

Could there be an evolutionary explanation for the purpose of public speaking? Is it something we actually need to be good at? Marnie asks evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar at Oxford University and gets some surprising answers. She meets psychologist Dr Preethi Premkumar at London South Bank University, who has developed virtual reality therapy with colleagues at Nottingham Trent University, and tries out the treatment herself.


Image: Aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Gaziantep
Credit: REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya


SUN 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjr75)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SUN 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0j2vk)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SUN 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd8873hk)
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SUN 02:32 Health Check (w3ct32xq)
Can heat affect mental health?

Can changes in the weather have an impact on our mental health? We go to Bangladesh in South Asia, a country on the front line of the impacts of climate change, where researchers have been exploring connections between incremental changes in heat and humidity, along with bigger impacts like flooding, and the levels of anxiety and depression in the population. They say their study has stark implications, not just for Bangladesh, but for many other countries too.

Dr Belinda Fenty joins us bringing in some coffees in the studio. But can presenter Smitha Mundasad spot which cup has the caffeine? Dr Fenty talks us through what coffee actually does to the body and ponders other questions like how much is too much and why might you crash after a coffee high.

She also take us through how to spot fake medicines and we take a look at an intriguing study on whether being married is good for your health.

Presenter: Smitha Mundasad
Producer: Gerry Holt

(Photo: Pabna in Bangladesh at dusk. Credit: Emon Cena/Getty Images.)


SUN 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjvz9)
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SUN 03:06 The Documentary (w3ct4xcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnjzqf)
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SUN 04:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3ct32bn)
Nigeria's cash crunch

Pascale Harter introduces reportage, analysis and wit from BBC correspondents and writers in Nigeria, the USA, Myanmar and Italy.

Nigeria’s Central Bank had a plan: to fight inflation, limit corruption and encourage e-commerce by bringing in brand new banknotes. But the handing of the changeover has caused chaos across the country – as Mayeni Jones explains from Lagos.

The US President’s State of the Union address is a regular ritual of the American political calendar – but who is the speech really directed to, and what sort of tactical signals get sent in this bit of Congressional theatre? After an unusually stormy SOTU in Washington DC this week, Anthony Zurcher travelled with President Biden to Florida, to weigh up what message he wants to get across to the American people.

It’s been two years since the military takeover of Myanmar, and ever since the coup, the levels of violence and censorship inside the country have steadily ratcheted up. Many journalists have found they simply can’t do their jobs without risking arrest, intimidation or imprisonment. The BBC’s Asia editor Rebecca Henschke describes the dangers they must face to get news out of the country.

Escaping the Mafia is not easy. If you’ve been marked for death by an Italian organised crime syndicate, then changing your identity or a lifetime under armed escort might be the very minimum needed. But what if you’ve been born into a crime family – is there any chance of escape? In the foothills of the Italian Alps, Daniel Gordon recently met one man who’d managed to break away from the criminal career he’d been born into.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross

(Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)


SUN 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd887bzt)
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SUN 04:32 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct37sr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:32 on Saturday]


SUN 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnk3gk)
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SUN 05:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0jg2y)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SUN 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd887gqy)
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SUN 05:32 The Documentary (w3ct4wcl)
The travelling speech therapist

When speech disorders affect children, it is speech therapists who assist in helping them find their voice, but therapists are rare and it is thought they are largely absent across 75% of the world.

Sean Allsop grew up needing speech therapy in the UK. He travels to Turks & Caicos, a place that has no therapists to help its population. He takes the trip with a travelling speech therapist, Mary Weinder who has been asked by the Turks & Caicos Government for help.

Sean meets the children receiving speech therapy as well as their parents and reflects on his own experiences and the difference it made to his life.

(Photo: Mary Weinder teaches children in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Sean Allsop)


SUN 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnk76p)
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SUN 06:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw4kkx)
US military shoot down new unidentified object

The US military has shot down a new unidentified object over Canada's north-western territory of Yukon.

Also in the programme: British MPs accuse BBC Chairman, Richard Sharp of "significant errors of judgement" for not declaring his involvement in helping Boris Johnson secure a sizeable loan, when he was Prime Minister.

The death toll from the earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria earlier this week has now surpassed 28,000 with hopes of finding more survivors fading.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Caruso School of Law, Pepperdine University in California. She's also a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Ramy Inocencio, the CBS News Foreign Correspondent in London.

(Picture: The U.S. Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin"s F35 Joint Strike Fighter, F-35B test aircraft BF-2 flies with external weapons for the first time over the Atlantic test range at Patuxent River Naval Air Systems Command in Maryland in a February 22, 2012 file photo. Credit: REUTERS/Lockheed Martin/Handout UNITED STATES)


SUN 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnkbyt)
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SUN 07:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw4pb1)
Turkey and Syria death toll continue to rise

More than 28, 000 people are now known to have died in Turkey and Syria as a result of this week's earthquakes.

Also in the programme: The US military has shot down a new unidentified object over Canada's northwestern territory of Yukon.

And we speak to Thinlay Chukki the representative of the Dalai Lama at the UN in Geneva ahead of the China’s Review by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Caruso School of Law, Pepperdine University in California. She's also a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Ramy Inocencio, the CBS News Foreign Correspondent in London.

(Picture: Seho Uyan, who survived a deadly earthquake, but lost his four relatives, sits in front of a collapsed building in Adiyaman, Turkey February 11, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Sertac Kayar)


SUN 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnkgpy)
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SUN 08:06 Weekend (w172ykwwpjw4t25)
UN says 26 million people affected by earthquake in Turkey and Syria

The World Health Organisation estimates that nearly 26 million million people have been affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

Also in the programme: We will be hearing from two aid workers coordinating help for victims of the earthquake in Syria.

Plus, an insight into Nikki Haley, the former Governor of South Carolina and the former US Ambassador to the UN who is preparing to launch a possible US presidential bid.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Caruso School of Law, Pepperdine University in California. She's also a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Ramy Inocencio, the CBS News Foreign Correspondent in London.

(Picture: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks with a man as he visits quake survivors at a hospital in Aleppo, in the aftermath of the earthquake, Syria February 11, 2023. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi)


SUN 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd887tzb)
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SUN 08:32 The Food Chain (w3ct38p5)
What's the best pasta shape?

Spaghetti, penne, farfalle, gnocchi, lasagna – just a few of the 300-plus shapes of pasta in existence. And there are some very strong opinions about them.

This Italian staple is one of the world’s most popular foods and one of the most versatile.

In this programme, Ruth Alexander delves into the history, culture and passions of pasta-making to ask a controversial question – what is the best pasta shape?

She speaks to restaurateur Elisa Cavigliasso and chef Giulia Martinelli, from The Pasta Factory in Manchester, UK; pasta historian Luca Cesari, in Bologna, Italy; pasta shape inventor and host of the Sporkful podcast, Dan Pashman, in New York; and Andrea Butti, co-owner of Dominioni Pasta, a pasta machine manufacturer near Como, Italy.

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

(Picture: Nine small piles of different pasta shapes. Credit: Getty Images/BBC)

Producer: Elisabeth Mahy


SUN 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnklg2)
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SUN 09:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3ct32bn)
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SUN 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd887yqg)
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SUN 09:32 Outlook (w3ct41fs)
Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

Born to Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s San Francisco. His father Ramon was involved in suspect business dealings, and could sometimes be angry and violent. As their relationship became increasingly strained Roberto rebelled, influenced by the culture of emerging organised street gangs. He became more interested in the civil war, which was escalating in El Salvador, and joined the guerrilla group the FMLN and went there to fight.

In later years, Roberto became a successful academic and began to learn more about El Salvador’s bloody history. It was then he discovered his father was a witness of one of the most violent episodes the country had ever seen, La Matanza, “the massacre”; a secret Ramon had taken 70 years to share. His book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, is a testament to his family's history.

This item was first broadcast in November 2020

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

Presenter: Anu Anand
Producer: Katy Takatsuki

(Photo: Roberto Lovato in San Francisco's Mission District, Aug 2020. Credit: Roberto Lovato)


SUN 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnkq66)
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SUN 10:06 People Fixing The World (w3ct3j3p)
The ring that could help save women’s lives

Thousands of women are infected with HIV every week in Africa. Many can't persuade their partners to wear a condom, so it was hoped that a new form of protection could be a real game-changer.

It's a small silicon ring which encircles the cervix and releases antiretroviral drugs, lowering the women’s risk of contracting HIV. Their partners aren't supposed to feel it, and so shouldn't even need to know it’s there.

People Fixing the World first reported on the HIV ring five years ago. We find out what’s happened since.

Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporters: Ruth Evans and Rosie Blunt
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound mix: Annie Gardiner
Editor: Penny Murphy

Email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk
Image: Agnes holds up a dapivirine ring


SUN 10:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd8882gl)
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SUN 10:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct424l)
The cost of being an atheist in Nigeria

When Mubarak Bala posts criticism of Islam on social media, it sparks a landmark legal case and leaves him facing 24 years in jail. Raised in a Muslim family, Mubarak is the son of an Islamic scholar in the religiously conservative Kano state. But in 2014, Mubarak renounces Islam and later becomes president of Nigeria’s Humanist Association, gaining a reputation as an outspoken critic of religion.

In 2020, a group of Muslim lawyers call for him to be tried for offences related to blasphemy over social media posts which they say insult the Prophet Muhammad and the religion of Islam. With access to Mubarak’s wife and lawyers, the BBC’s Yemisi Adegoke follows his case through the Nigerian court system, finding out what it tells us about freedom of belief in a country where religious tensions run deep. She talks to other Nigerian atheists as they follow Mubarak’s case and wrestle with the challenges of being open about their beliefs in a deeply religious society.

Presenter: Yemisi Adegoke
Producers: Valeria Cardi and John Offord
Production co-ordinator: Mica Nepomuceno
Editor: Helen Grady

(Photo: Mubarak Bala speaking at Kaduna Book and Arts Festival in 2018, still from the film The Cost of Being an Atheist)


SUN 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnktyb)
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SUN 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0k5kq)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SUN 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd88866q)
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SUN 11:32 The Compass (w3ct3033)
Why We Play

Why We Play: Old age

Many of today’s old people grew up in an era when life was hard, retirement short, and opportunities for play limited. But as we live longer, we need to seek out playful activities, for both physical and mental health.

We visit a bridge club for older people, where many members started to learn the game after they retired, to keep their brains sharp and give them social opportunities. We visit a care home in Scotland where the management frequently organise play sessions, such as pretend weddings, and where disco bingo is a regular event. And in Jerusalem, we meet two older men, one Arab, one Jewish, who come together over a shared love of backgammon. But will the old people of tomorrow want to move beyond these traditional games, and if so, what will the play of the future look like?


SUN 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnkypg)
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SUN 12:06 World Questions (w3ct3hny)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:06 on Saturday]


SUN 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnl2fl)
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SUN 13:06 Newshour (w172yfcg1qfnmcw)
Arrests in Turkey over building standards

Turkish police have issued more than 100 arrest warrants as part of an investigation into poor building standards after this week's devastating earthquakes; also, a high-altitude object that's being described only as 'small' and 'cylindrical' has been shot down by the US military over Canada; and how did Harry Styles go from boy band singer to global music star?


(Photo: Rescue team works in earthquake-affected area of Hatay, Turkey. Credit: Photo by ERDEM SAHIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


SUN 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnl65q)
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SUN 14:06 The Forum (w3ct38tp)
Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war

A Russian army stands at the gates of the capital of another country, a country that Russia has previously occupied and one that, according to Russian politicians, has no right to independent existence. Sounds familiar? That capital city was Warsaw and the year was 1920. But what happened in Poland just after the end of World War One bears strong similarities to what went on near Kyiv in 2022.

After the First World War, Russian Bolsheviks, and Lenin in particular, wanted to reoccupy Poland, and indeed Ukraine, Belarus and some other countries, so that they could serve as a bridge for exporting communist revolution to Western Europe. The Poles resisted even though at first they were outnumbered and outgunned by the Russians. The result was the Polish-Bolshevik war which was not fully resolved until 1921 and which had a big impact on the future shape of inter-war Europe.

To guide us through the Polish-Bolshevik war are three distinguished historians: Dr. Pawel Duber, researcher at Nottingham Trent University whose work focuses on Poland in the first half of the 20th Century; Anita Prazmowska, professor of International History at London School of Economics and the author of many publications on Polish history in the last century and beyond; Robert Service, emeritus professor of Russian history at Oxford University, whose books cover Russia from the Mongol conquest to Putin.

(Photo: Red Army on the Polish front, c.1920. Credit: Photo 12/Getty Images)


SUN 14:50 Over to You (w3ct35tj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:50 on Saturday]


SUN 15:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnl9xv)
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SUN 15:06 Sportsworld (w172ygk657vlzym)
Live Sporting Action

Sunday Sportsworld has full match commentary of Premier League champions Manchester City against Aston Villa. Former City striker Shaun Goater joins the programme to preview the game.

We also look ahead to the return of the Champions League and Europa League, and to Super Bowl 57 as Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles.
And we’ll bring you the latest from the Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup, including the match between India and Pakistan.

Photo: Riyad Mahrez of Manchester City during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on February 5, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)


SUN 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnlsxc)
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SUN 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85by0l4jr)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


SUN 19:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd88955r)
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SUN 19:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct424l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:32 today]


SUN 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnlxnh)
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SUN 20:06 The History Hour (w3ct39mj)
Popes

It has been 10 years since Pope Benedict XVI announced his shock resignation. It was the first time in almost 600 years that a pope had stepped down.

In this programme, we hear stories about the history of the papacy, including how a pope is chosen, the inception of Vatican II and what happens when a pope dies.

Contributors:

Giovanna Chirri - former Ansa journalist
Catherine Pepinster - former editor of Catholic newspaper, The Tablet
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor - Cardinal
John Strynkowski - Monsignor
Beniamino Stella - Cardinal
Don Davide Tisato - former professional footballer
Felice Alborghetti - journalist from the Centro Sportivo Italiano

(Photo: Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Credit: Getty Images)


SUN 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnm1dm)
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SUN 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcg1qfplbx)
Turkey-Syria earthquake: death toll rises to more than 33,000

The number of people confirmed to have died in Turkey and Syria has risen to more than 33,000. Officials in Turkey say 113 arrest warrants have been issued in connection with the construction of buildings that collapsed after Monday's earthquake. We speak to an American search and rescue team on the ground in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, and hear from Idlib province in north-west Syria. Also on the programme: Israel's President Isaac Herzog warns in an unscheduled televised address to the nation that the country is on the verge of constitutional and social collapse, as a political crisis intensifies over the government's plans to overhaul the judiciary. And the BBC's Steve Rosenberg looks at how Russia has changed since its invasion of Ukraine last year. (Image: a man stands next to a car in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Hatay, Turkey February 12, 2023. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan)


SUN 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnm54r)
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SUN 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9hgcb56b)
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SUN 22:20 Sports News (w172yghk8sn8861)
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.


SUN 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd889jf4)
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SUN 22:32 Outlook (w3ct41fs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:32 today]


SUN 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqjyjnm8ww)
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SUN 23:06 Tech Tent (w3ct4kj4)
The AI search race is on

Three big players in internet search have announced plans to integrate AI but can Google and Baidu rival Microsoft's team-up with ChatGPT? We also explore how old pictures and video are being shared online as from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. And why officials in the UK and US have named seven Russian men as being behind some of the most infamous cyber crime groups of recent years.

(Photo: Microsoft Bing search demonstration at its launch event. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP)


SUN 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcd889n58)
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SUN 23:32 Pick of the World (w3ct41y2)
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SUN 23:50 Over to You (w3ct35tj)
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MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2023

MON 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syr7x5)
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MON 00:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3ct32bn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 04:06 on Sunday]


MON 00:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkfm5k)
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MON 00:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct424l)
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MON 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrcn9)
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MON 01:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69qq8p)
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MON 01:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkfqxp)
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MON 01:32 Discovery (w3ct30cp)
Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene

In the name of eugenics, the Nazi state sterilised hundreds of thousands against their will, murdered disabled children and embarked on a programme of genocide.

We like to believe that Nazi atrocities were a unique aberration, a grotesque historical outlier. But it turns out that leading American eugenicists and lawmakers like Madison Grant and Harry Laughlin inspired many of the Nazi programmes, from the mass sterilisation of those deemed ‘unfit’ to the Nuremberg laws preventing the marriage of Jews and non-Jews. Indeed, before World War Two, many eugenicists across the world regarded the Nazi regime with envious admiration.

The Nazis went further, faster than anyone before them. But ultimately, the story of Nazi eugenics is one of international connection and continuity.

With contributions from Prof Stefan Kühl from the University of Bielefield, Prof Amy Carney from Penn State Behrend, Dr Jonathan Spiro from Castleton University, Prof Sheila Weiss from Clarkson University and Dr Barbara Warnock from the Wiener Holocaust Library

(Photo: German women carrying children of an alleged aryan purity in a Lebensborn selection centre, births by eugenicists methods during World War Two. Credit Keystone-France Getty Images)


MON 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrhdf)
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MON 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69qv0t)
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MON 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkfvnt)
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MON 02:32 The Climate Question (w3ct3kk8)
How can oceans help us capture carbon?

The ocean covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface and can hold more than 150 times the amount of carbon dioxide as air. Around a quarter of CO2 emissions created by human activity each year is absorbed by them. From phytoplankton to whales to seagrass meadows, we explore how this happens.
And in climate news, we hear about the wildfires and drought affecting Chile.

Hosts Jordan Dunbar and Kate Lamble speak with:

Rita Steyn, Contributing Editor at The Marine Diaries and lecturer at University of Tampa, Florida
Michael Yap is a Marine Biologist and Founder of Seagrass Guardians, Malaysia
Dr. Haimanti Biswas, Principal Scientist of Biological Oceanography at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, India
Dr. Annette Scheffer, Marine Biologist and Lecturer, speaking with us from Antarctica
John Kirkwood, Marine Biologist and Expedition Leader speaking with us from Antarctica
Alex Godoy Faundez, Director of the Sustainability Research Centre, Universidad of Desarrollo in Chile

This programme was first broadcast in May 2022

Researcher: Immie Rhodes
Reporter: Mark Stratton
Producers: Dearbhail Starr and Sophie Eastaugh
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell and Neil Churchill
Production coordinator: Siobhan Reed


MON 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrm4k)
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MON 03:06 Tech Tent (w3ct4kj4)
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MON 03:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkfzdy)
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MON 03:32 Pick of the World (w3ct41y2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:32 on Saturday]


MON 03:50 Over to You (w3ct35tj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:50 on Saturday]


MON 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrqwp)
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MON 04:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69r2j2)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


MON 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkg352)
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MON 04:32 The Conversation (w3ct37n6)
Step-mothers: The joys and challenges

Kim Chakanetsa talks to a US step-parenting coach and a journalist in India about their experience of being a step-mother. They discuss the challenges of blended families and give advice to women in similar situations.

When Naja Hall began dating a divorced man with three young children she was soon dealing with difficult, confusing and stressful scenarios. When she couldn't find the practical advice she needed she set up online forums Blended and Black and VIP Stepmom. She's now a well-regarded step-parenting coach who specialises in high-conflict situations.

Aarushi Ahluwalia was 26 when her husband's son came to live with them. In India there's a social stigma around being a step-parent where just 1% of marriages end in divorce and she knows very few other women with her experience. She says that as a step-mother you have all of the responsibility but none of the rights of a parent, despite this she's found it really rewarding to care for and love her step-son.

Produced by Jane Thurlow

(Image: (L) Aarushi Ahluwalia, courtesy Aarushi Ahluwalia. (R) Naja Hall, courtesy Naja Hall.)


MON 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrvmt)
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MON 05:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxsh97)
Mystery continues to surround 'objects' shot down by the US

US officials say they still can't identify three objects they shot down in the past few days.

A week since the earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, we'll bring you the latest from both countries as rescue efforts continue.

And from Ukraine, we have a report from our team in the city of Bakhmut which is besieged by the Russians.


MON 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syrzcy)
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MON 06:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxsm1c)
Turkey-Syria quake, a week on: 33,000 people killed

Survivors continue to be found a week after the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria as the death toll rises above 33,000 people - we hear from a search and rescue team.

As anger at Ankara's slow rescue effort increases, Turkish officials have issued arrest warrants for people involved in the construction of buildings that collapsed.

And in America's biggest night of sport, the Kansas City Chiefs become Super Bowl champions for the second time in four years after fighting back to claim a thrilling win over the Philadelphia Eagles.


MON 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sys342)
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MON 07:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxsqsh)
Anger in Turkey over slow response of government to quake

More than 33,000 people are now known to have been killed in the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria; now Ankara has issued arrest warrants for people involved in the construction of buildings that collapsed as anger grows towards the Turkish government over a slow rescue effort.

The Kansas City Chiefs become Super Bowl champions for the second time in four years after fighting back to claim a thrilling win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

And we find out if an agreement can likely be reached between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund over a vital loan.


MON 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sys6w6)
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MON 08:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32mq)
Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Kenneth Roth, who spent three decades leading the campaign group Human Rights Watch. Why is the fight for human rights being lost in so many places?


MON 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkgl4l)
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MON 08:32 Business Daily (w3ct30yj)
Big sporting event, very small town

Business Daily’s Matthew Kenyon visits the Dutch town of Hoogerheide as it hosts the 2023 World Cyclocross Championships.

Tens of thousands of fans will flock into the town, and spend their money on hotels, food and drink. But where does that money go? And what about the costs and disruption of putting on a major sporting event in a small place?

We hear from the head of the local organising committee, Jan Prop, on how he raises and spends his budget; from cycling’s world governing body, the UCI; and from locals and visitors about the spending and disruption that goes with any big sporting event.

Producer / Presenter: Matthew Kenyon
Image: Cyclocross 2023; Credit: BBC


MON 08:50 Witness History (w3ct3c02)
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted

In 1969 and 1970, thousands of workers in Italy went on strike, protesting against low pay and poor working conditions. It became known as the ‘Hot Autumn’.

Renzo Baricelli represented tyre workers at the Pirelli rubber factory in Milan, one of the main centres of protest.

He tells Vicky Farncombe how he had to step in when angry workers with hammers were threatening to smash up the factory.

(Photo: Workers protesting in Milan during the 'Hot Autumn'. Credit: Getty Images)


MON 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sysbmb)
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MON 09:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69rp7q)
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MON 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkgpwq)
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MON 09:32 The Climate Question (w3ct3kk8)
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MON 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sysgcg)
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MON 10:06 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct37sr)
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MON 10:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkgtmv)
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MON 10:32 The Explanation (w3ct4m2c)
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MON 10:50 More or Less (w3ct3k5z)
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MON 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sysl3l)
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MON 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69rxqz)
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MON 11:32 The Conversation (w3ct37n6)
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MON 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syspvq)
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MON 12:06 Outlook (w3ct34pl)
The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses

From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya Rakini will stand up for herself, and you. From an early age she's fought for what's right. As a child living in Tamil Nadu, she stopped eating so her parents would send her to the school of her choice. She left behind life in a convent, then a marriage, and defied expectations as a working single mother. She’s now the leader of a union advocating for seamstresses making fast fashion for international chain stores and has negotiated an historic deal.

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: June Christie

(Photo: Thiyva Rakini. Credit: Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union)


MON 12:50 Witness History (w3ct3c02)
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MON 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9systlv)
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MON 13:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69s577)
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MON 13:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkh5w7)
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MON 13:32 CrowdScience (w3ct3j86)
Who’s afraid of public speaking?

Why does the thought of giving a talk to an audience fill so many of us with sheer terror? Marnie Chesterton investigates for listener Nhial, who has seen his fellow students in Morocco become panic stricken at the prospect and wants to know the reason for our anxiety. According to one study, 77 per cent of us share that fear.
Marnie finds out about the relationship between stress, our brains and our voices from research associate Dr Maria Dietrich at the University Hospital, Bonn University. She talks to Nhial’s tutor, Professor Taoufik Jaafari, at Hassan II University of Casablanca about the challenges facing his students. And she visits the National Theatre in London to get some expert training from Jeannette Nelson, head of voice, who works with some of the world’s leading actors.

Could there be an evolutionary explanation for the purpose of public speaking? Is it something we actually need to be good at? Marnie asks evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar at Oxford University and gets some surprising answers. She meets psychologist Dr Preethi Premkumar at London South Bank University, who has developed virtual reality therapy with colleagues at Nottingham Trent University, and tries out the treatment herself.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producer: Jo Glanville


MON 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sysybz)
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MON 14:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzqwh98)
Inside Syria's earthquake-affected region

In Syria, more than 3,500 people are so far known to have been killed by last week's earthquake. But in the worst-affected area, opposition-controlled Idlib, little aid has arrived. The UN has sent in aid trucks, but Syria has received a tiny fraction of the help neighbouring Turkey has secured. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Robbie Wright gained access to the region.

Also in the programme: Why the French defence minister has criticised the latest 'Black Panther' film; and rapper David Jolicoeur from the pioneering hip hop group 'De La Soul' has died.

(Picture: A volunteer among the rubble, in the aftermath of an earthquake in Idlib province, Syria. Credit: White Helmets/Handout via REUTERS)


MON 15:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syt233)
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MON 15:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32mq)
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MON 15:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkhfch)
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MON 15:32 World Business Report (w3ct3g0n)
EU dodges recession - for now

The European Union's latest economic forecast shows it is managing to avoid a recession, for now at least.
There had been fears that the pressures on gas supplies since Russia invaded Ukraine would force the EU into a recession, but figures released today show growth at 0.9%.
Ireland is at the top of the growth league table - we look at the reasons why - and how some countries are still struggling with the effects of the energy crisis, inflation.
The European Union's latest economic forecast shows it is managing to avoid a recession, for now at least.
There had been fears that the pressures on gas supplies since Russia invaded Ukraine would force the EU into a recession, but figures released today show growth at 0.9%.
Ireland is at the top of the growth league table - we look at the reasons why - and how some countries are still struggling with the effects of the energy crisis, inflation.
We also report on the growing anger towards building contractors who are being blamed for poor construction of homes that couldn’t withstand the tremors’
Just this weekend, Turkish Prosecutors have issued more than a hundred arrest warrants to probe contractors, surveyors and other experts with links to the destroyed buildings...
And how Rhianna used her business savvy to promote her own brand of make-up on stage in front of tens of millions at the US Superbowl
(Picture: Getty Images)


MON 16:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syt5v7)
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MON 16:06 BBC OS (w172yg216997l69)
Turkey and Syria earthquakes: One week on

A week on from the Turkish and Syrian earthquakes, the UN aid chief says the focus is now turning to caring for survivors. Thousands of homeless people are in temporary shelters while others in less accessible areas are still waiting for help.

We speak to doctors and our reporters in the affected areas and hear about misery and anger among the survivors.

There have been angry scenes in the Israeli parliament the Knesset today as opponents tried to stop the government moving forward with its plans to tighten its control of the court system. Our correspondent in Jerusalem explains.

A new report released in Portugal has found out that nearly 5,000 children were sexually abused by member of the Catholic Church over the past 70 years. We get details from our correspondent.

Cambodian officials have shut down one of the country`s last independent media outlets the Voice of Democracy. We speak to our reporter in the region.

(Photo: Syrian woman Amina Raslan sits with her son and her grandchildren, at her son's partially damaged home, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Aleppo, Syria February 13, 2023. Credit: Firas Makdesi/Reuters)


MON 17:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syt9lc)
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MON 17:06 BBC OS (w172yg216997pyf)
Turkey and Syria earthquakes: Doctors

A week on from the Turkish and Syrian earthquakes, the UN aid chief says the focus is now turning to caring for survivors. We speak to doctors about what it has been like in their hospitals over the past week.

Thousands of homeless people are in temporary shelters while others in less accessible areas are still waiting for help. We speak to our correspondents about misery and anger among the survivors.

We also speak to an aid worker in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

In Israel, around 90,000 people have protested outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, against a controversial judicial judicial reform review proposed by the government. We speak to our correspondent there.

(Photo: Tariq Haidar, a 3-year-old boy who was rescued from under the rubble after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the town of Jandaris, receives treatment inside a hospital where doctors were forced to amputate his left leg, in Afrin, Syria February 9, 2023. Credit: Mahmoud Hassano/Reuters)


MON 18:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sytfbh)
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MON 18:06 Outlook (w3ct34pl)
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MON 18:50 Witness History (w3ct3c02)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


MON 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sytk2m)
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MON 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69swq0)
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MON 19:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkhxc0)
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MON 19:32 Sport Today (w3ct4l7y)
2023/02/13 GMT

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.


MON 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sytntr)
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MON 20:06 The Climate Question (w3ct3kk8)
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MON 20:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkj134)
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MON 20:32 Discovery (w3ct30cq)
Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel

A key goal of eugenics in the 20th century was to eliminate genetic defects from a population. Many countries pursued this with state-led programmes of involuntary sterilisation, even murder. We unpick some of the science behind this dark history, and consider the choices and challenges opened up by the science today.

In the mid-19th century, an Augustinian friar called Gregor Mendel made a breakthrough. By breeding pea plants and observing how certain traits were passed on, Mendel realised there must be units - little packets - of information determining characteristics. He had effectively discovered the gene.

His insights inspired eugenicists from the 1900s onwards. If traits were passed on by specific genes, then their policies should stop people with ‘bad’ genes from having children.

Mendel’s ideas are still used in classrooms today - to teach about traits like eye colour. But the eugenicists thought Mendel's simple explanations applied to everything - from so-called ‘feeblemindedness’ to criminality and even pauperism.

Today, we recognise certain genetic conditions as being passed on in a Mendelian way. Achondroplasia - which results in short stature - is one example, caused by a single genetic variant. We hear from Professor Tom Shakespeare about the condition, about his own decision to have children despite knowing the condition was heritable - and the reaction of the medical establishment.

We also explore how genetics is taught in schools today - and the danger of relying on Mendel’s appealingly simple but misleading account.

Contributors: Dr Brian Donovan, senior research scientist at BSCS, Prof Tom Shakespeare, disability researcher at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and Dr Christine Patch, principal staff scientist in Genomic Counselling in the Society and Ethics Research group, part of Wellcome Connecting Science.


MON 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sytskw)
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MON 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzqxbj5)
Huge protests in Israel against judicial reform plans

Around 90,000 Israelis have protested outside parliament against controversial plans for judicial reforms. Also on the programme, our correspondent in north-western Syria reports from a hospital treating victims - some of them just months old - of last week's earthquakes; and a German opera house suspends its chief choreographer after he attacked a newspaper critic with dog faeces - we speak to that journalist.

(Photo: Israelis demonstrate on the day Israel's constitution committee is set to vote on judicial plan, in Jerusalem 13/02/2023 Reuters)


MON 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sytxb0)
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MON 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9vqnjxcl)
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MON 22:20 Sports News (w172yghkn1yh0c9)
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MON 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkj8ld)
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MON 22:32 World Business Report (w3ct3g2x)
Has the air gone out of US China trade relations?

The US has burst what it's called a high-altitude intelligence gathering balloon from China, while the deadline over a dispute between the two countries over the trading of microchips has expired. We speak a former member of the Clinton Administration about what this means for trade relations between the nations.

We find out why Ghana's in an arm-wrestle with its pensioners over who's going to foot the bill for its debt problems.

And what's behind the low birth rates affecting nations all around the world?

(Picture: The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. February 4, 2023.Credit: REUTERS/Randall Hill/File Photo/File Photo)


MON 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syv124)
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MON 23:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32mq)
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MON 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkjdbj)
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MON 23:32 The Conversation (w3ct37n6)
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TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2023

TUE 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syv4t8)
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TUE 00:06 The History Hour (w3ct39mj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:06 on Sunday]


TUE 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syv8kd)
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TUE 01:06 Business Matters (w172ydqbblcv5gr)
Have US-China trade relations deflated?

The US have burst a high-altitude balloon programme designed for intelligence gathering, which they say came from China. The two nations are also at loggerheads over new rules the US introduced that prevent the export of chips to China. We take a look at what this all means for the future of trade relations between the countries.

(Picture: Printed balloons with Chinese flag are placed on U.S. flag in the shape of U.S. map outline, in this illustration taken February 5, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)


TUE 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syvd9j)
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TUE 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69tqxx)
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TUE 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkjrkx)
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TUE 02:32 The Documentary (w3ct50pm)
America's first black bank

The Freedman’s Bank was established in 1865 after the abolition of slavery and the Civil War. The Bank was designed to help newly freed African Americans in their quest to become financially stable. At its peak, it stretched across huge swathes of America. But what began with huge promise ended in massive failure nine years later, leaving a legacy of distrust in its wake. For US Black History Month, Szu Ping Chan looks in the the history and lessons from the collapse of America's first black bank.

(Photo: The north side of the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C, with Riggs Bank (no.1501) at right, and the Department of Justice building (formerly the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company bank) at left, on Madison Place, circa 1888. Artist: Frances Benjamin Johnston. Credit: Heritage Art/Heritage Images/Getty Images)


TUE 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syvj1n)
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TUE 03:06 Outlook (w3ct34pl)
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TUE 03:50 Witness History (w3ct3c02)
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TUE 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syvmss)
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TUE 04:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69tzf5)
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TUE 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkk025)
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TUE 04:32 In the Studio (w3ct3jk8)
The Sydney Modern Project

Sydney’s main public art museum, the Art Gallery of NSW, recently completed Sydney Modern, a massive expansion project ten years in the making. Almost doubling the existing exhibition space, the new building was designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winning Japanese firm SANAA.

Positioned within verdant parkland, yet a mere stone’s throw from the city centre, the new gallery is a series of interconnected glass–encased pavilions that seem to cascade down an incline towards Sydney Harbour. With its landscaped terraces and courtyards, the new gallery almost merges with its surroundings, inviting visitors to experience art as part of the environment.

Join Masako Fukui as she follows the final stages of this construction project, and talks to some of the key people who have contributed to the creative vision, including the Director of the Art Gallery of NSW, Dr Michael Brand, the architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, as well as artisans, artists and the structural engineer on the project.

Presenter/Producer: Masako Fukui
Exec Producer: Rebecca Armstrong for the BBC World Service

Image: Dr Michael Brand (Credit: Janie Barrett/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images) in front of an aerial view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s new SANAA-designed building (Credit: Iwan Baan)


TUE 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syvrjx)
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TUE 05:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxwd6b)
Hopes rise that more UN aid will be allowed into Syria

The United Nations says President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has agreed to open two more border crossings to allow in more aid into rebel-held areas of the country devastated by the earthquake last week.

Also this morning, a cyclone is battering North Island in New Zealand.

And the Iranian President is on a state visit to China.


TUE 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syvw91)
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TUE 06:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxwhyg)
Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll continues to climb

The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria passes 37,000 and emergency operations are now focused on survivors - we report on the situation on the Syrian side of the border and whether aid is finally getting through.

The western military alliance Nato is meeting to discuss Ukraine's request for fighter jets - we find out how likely that is.

And we gauge reactions to the Czech Republic football international Jakub Jankto coming out as gay on social media.


TUE 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syw015)
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TUE 07:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxwmpl)
Syria says it will allow more UN aid to rebel-held areas

The death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria passes 37,000 - in the last hour, we've heard of another young man being pulled from the rubble in Turkey but emergency operations are now focusing on survivors on both sides of the border - we hear from an aid worker in the Turkish city of Gaziantep.

The military alliance NATO hosts a summit of defence ministers to discuss the war in Ukraine - how will they respond to a renewed Russian offensive?

The United States and China continue to argue over balloons - what does it say about relations between the countries?


TUE 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syw3s9)
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TUE 08:06 People Fixing The World (w3ct3j3q)
Sea cucumbers fixing the world

Meet the oceans’ unsung hero - the humble sea cucumber. An animal in the same family as starfish that looks like a lumpy sausage and lives on the ocean floor could help with some of the impact of global warming, pollution from fish farms and damage from the fishing industry that are threatening some of the oceans most important ecosystems.

We meet the Australian researchers using drones to count the cucumbers to understand how their poo is helping coral reefs. And in Madagascar, we speak to the local communities which are learning to sustainably farm the creature, protecting the seas and increasing their income along the way.

Presenter: Myra Anubi
Producer/Reporter: Lizzy McNeill
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound mix: Annie Gardiner
Editor: Penny Murphy

Email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk

(Image: Sea cucumbers. Credit: Getty Images)


TUE 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkkh1p)
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TUE 08:32 Business Daily (w3ct317k)
What does studying in the UK cost Africans?

Frey Lindsay investigates what some African students are required to do to get a place to study in the UK – and what that costs.

We examine the cost and relevancy of English language tests and explore the visa pathways that exclude some Africans.

Young African academics tell us about their frustrations and the enormous expense involved.

Nigerian policy specialist Ebenezar Wikina tells us about his campaign trying increase inclusion for those Africans who speak English and education scholar Samia Chasi explains why academics and institutions in poorer countries deserve more of a place in global education.

Presenter / Producer: Frey Lindsay
Image: Student, Donatus outside Glasgow University; Credit: BBC


TUE 08:50 Witness History (w3ct3c4l)
First Danish queen for 600 years

In January 1972, King Frederick IX of Denmark died after a short illness at the age of 72.

He was succeeded by his daughter Margrethe who became the first Queen of Denmark in 600 years.

Watching her proclamation as Margrethe II of Denmark in the room next to the balcony of the Christiansborg Palace was the country’s former Foreign and Defence Minister Kjeld Olesen.

He’s been remembering that day with Ashley Byrne at his home in Copenhagen.

A Made in Manchester Production for BBC World Service.

(Photo: Margrethe II of Denmark in 1970. Credit: Getty Images)


TUE 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syw7jf)
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TUE 09:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69vl4t)
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TUE 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkklst)
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TUE 09:32 The Documentary (w3ct50pm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:32 today]


TUE 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywc8k)
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TUE 10:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct391g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:06 on Saturday]


TUE 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywh0p)
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TUE 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69vtn2)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


TUE 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkkv92)
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TUE 11:32 In the Studio (w3ct3jk8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 04:32 today]


TUE 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywlrt)
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TUE 12:06 Outlook (w3ct3544)
Bringing the beat back: The accidental heroes of hip-hop

In 1971, childhood best friends and self-taught musicians Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio created Cymande, a funk band inspired by their Caribbean heritage. But they struggled to find success, facing racism and an unwelcoming British music industry. Disillusioned, Patrick and Steve put away their guitars and became lawyers instead. But unknown to them, their music developed a cult following and would shape the golden age of hip-hop, influencing the likes of Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul and The Fugees. Decades later in their 60s, Patrick and Steve would make an unexpected and triumphant return. They are featured in the documentary, Getting it back: The story of Cymande.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Maryam Maruf

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

(Photo: Cymande in the 1970s. Credit: Cymande)


TUE 12:50 Witness History (w3ct3c4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


TUE 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywqhy)
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TUE 13:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69w24b)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


TUE 13:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkl2sb)
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TUE 13:32 Discovery (w3ct30cq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:32 on Monday]


TUE 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywv82)
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TUE 14:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzqzd6c)
Iran Chess player exiled for refusing headscarf

Newshour's Razia Iqbal spoke to Iranian Chess player, Sara Khadem, who is now living in exile in Spain after refusing to wear a headscarf. She isn't able to return for fear of arrest and imprisonment.

Also in the programme: Tax officers have searched BBC offices in India; and speculation the North Korean leader's 10-year-old daughter is being groomed to be a future leader.

(Picture: Sara Khadem of Iran sits in front of a chess board during a game in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Credit: Ardeshir Ahmadi).


TUE 15:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sywz06)
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TUE 15:06 People Fixing The World (w3ct3j3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


TUE 15:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjklb8l)
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TUE 15:32 World Business Report (w3ct3g9p)
US Inflation Cooling

The US consumer price index rose at a rate of 6.4% - a slight fall on the previous month.
While the drop is welcome news it was smaller than some economists had anticipated.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the prices of a range of goods and service, and has now fallen for seven consecutive months in the US, from a high of more than 9% last year.
We also report on big job losses in Europe which were announced by car makers Ford.
The company will be axing nearly 4000 jobs across Europe in the coming two years.
Most of the jobs cuts are in the product development division - that is designers, engineers and testers.
And on Valentine's Day - why flowers on sale in the Netherlands might not have been grown on home soil....
(Picture: Getty Images)


TUE 16:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syx2rb)
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TUE 16:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699bh3d)
Turkey and Syria earthquakes: Children

We speak to a child psychologist about mental health effects of earthquakes in children, especially in those who have lost their parents.

We bring more stories of survivors in Turkey and Syria who have lost family members and their homes in last week’s earthquakes.

We talk about criticism of Turkey's government response and about rebel-held north-west Syria where a UN delegation has arrived for the first time since the earthquakes eight days ago.

After a German theatre critic was allegedly smeared with dog excrement, we speak to critics who have experienced bullying and trolling over their work.

We hear a conversation with three African- American men about their experiences of the police in the US.

(Photo: A child holding a plastic container looks on amid rubble, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 14, 2023. Credit: Suhaib Salem/Reuters)


TUE 17:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syx6hg)
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TUE 17:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699blvj)
Turkey and Syria earthquakes: Scammers

Security experts have warned that scammers are using the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria to try to trick people into donating to fake causes. A BBC investigation has found that TikTok is making profit from displaced children living in Syrian camps, begging for donations. Our reporter explains.

Our Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg travelled to the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk to see how the authorities are silencing opposition to the war.

The former Republican governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, has announced she will seek her party’s nomination to run for the US presidency. We speak to a reporter in the US.

After a German theatre critic was allegedly smeared with dog excrement, we hear from critics who have experienced bullying and trolling over their work.

We hear a conversation with three African-American men about their experiences of the police in the US.

(Photo: Damaged buildings in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake, in Hatay city, Turkey, 14 February 2023. Credit: MARTIN DIVISEK/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


TUE 18:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxb7l)
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TUE 18:06 Outlook (w3ct3544)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 today]


TUE 18:50 Witness History (w3ct3c4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


TUE 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxfzq)
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TUE 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69wsm3)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


TUE 19:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjklt83)
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TUE 19:32 Sport Today (w3ct4ldg)
2023/02/14 GMT

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.


TUE 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxkqv)
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TUE 20:06 The Documentary (w3ct50pm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:32 today]


TUE 20:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkly07)
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TUE 20:32 Digital Planet (w3ct31zq)
Internet shutdowns around the world

Within hours of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake across Turkey and northern Syria, the internet in Turkey was partially shutdown. And it wasn’t just because of damage to network infrastructure from the quake itself, but Twitter was blocked, as the authorities raised concerns over misinformation online.

Internet shutdowns are used by governments around the world to control people’s access to information, for example during protests, but also somewhat surprisingly to prevent cheating during public examinations.

Shutting down the internet costs individuals and countries huge amounts of money. The TopTenVPN annual report which analysed every major intentional internet shutdown in 2022 has revealed that they cost a world economy, already reeling from a number of shocks, a further $24 billion.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson.

Studio Manager: Michael Millham
Producer: Alun Beach

(Image: Keyboard lit up in red in the dark. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)


TUE 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxpgz)
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TUE 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr07f8)
UN launches $400 million earthquake appeal for Syria

Doctors warn of increasing cases of post-traumatic stress experienced by earthquake victims. We hear the story of one Syrian refugee in Turkey who became homeless for the second time. Also in the programme, we hear from one of Iran's top chess player, living in exile after refusing to wear a headscarf; And, the Oscar nominated documentary about orphaned elephants in India.

(Photo: Search operations continue in Hatay following powerful earthquake 14/02/2023 European Pressphoto Agency)


TUE 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxt73)
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TUE 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9vqnmt8p)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


TUE 22:20 Sports News (w172yghkn1ykx8d)
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.


TUE 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkm5hh)
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TUE 22:32 World Business Report (w3ct3gcy)
America's rocky road to economic recovery

Inflation figures from the US show that inflation is slowing but less than expected, increasing thoughts that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this year. We speak to a former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration about what we can expect from the year ahead.

After the biggest order of new passenger aircraft in history, we find out what the deal between Air India, Airbus and Boeing means for the industry.

And who's buying Manchester United? We hear about the runners and riders who are bidding to own ones of the world's biggest football clubs.

(Picture: Miami International Airport welcomes final flower imports before Valentine's Day, USA - 06 Feb 2023 Credit: CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


TUE 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syxxz7)
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TUE 23:06 People Fixing The World (w3ct3j3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


TUE 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkm97m)
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TUE 23:32 In the Studio (w3ct3jk8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 04:32 today]

WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2023

WED 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syy1qc)
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WED 00:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct391g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:06 on Saturday]


WED 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syy5gh)
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WED 01:06 Business Matters (w172ydqbblcy2cv)
Air India's bank-busting haul

In the biggest order of new passenger aircraft in history, Air India has ordered 470 new planes. Airbus will provide 250 of them and the other 220 will come from US rival Boeing.

It's been hailed by French president Emmanuel Macron as a historic opportunity for further Franco-Indian cooperation.

We discuss the deal and what it means for the wider air industry.

(Picture: A woman walks past Air India airlines branding in Mumbai, India, October 19, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo)


WED 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syy96m)
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WED 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69xmv0)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkmnh0)
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WED 02:32 The Compass (w3ct4xrc)
The Invention Of Russia

The invention of Russia: Moscow

Countries look so cohesive on the map - sturdy borders, familiar shapes. Don't be misled. They didn't always look like this. This is the story of Russia, biggest contiguous country on the planet, told from the time when it was still very small.

With contributions across the series from Janet Hartley, author of a history of the Volga; Rhodric Braithwaite, former ambassador to Moscow; historian and sociologist, Mischa Gabowitsch; Anthony Beevor; Natalia Antelava; Kateryna Khinkulova; Dominic Lieven; Olesya Khromeychuk; and James Hill of the New York Times.

(Photo: View of the Moskva River and the Moscow Kremlin. Credit: Vlad Karkov/Getty Images)


WED 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syydyr)
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WED 03:06 Outlook (w3ct3544)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 on Tuesday]


WED 03:50 Witness History (w3ct3c4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syyjpw)
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WED 04:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69xwb8)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkmwz8)
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WED 04:32 Love, Janessa (w3ct4ppf)
3. Meet the boys

Tracking down scammers – how and why do they do it? One tells host Hannah Ajala: “I always feel bad”. Researchers estimate half of global romance scams originate in West Africa. In Ghana, there are the Sakawa Boys. The conning process can involve staying up late, chatting on the phone… building trust and deepening the connection - a bit like a real relationship. It takes time to fall “in love”. Please note, this series contains adult themes and strong language.

Produced for the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts by Antica Productions and Telltale Industries.


WED 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syyng0)
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WED 05:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxz93f)
What allows some quake survivors to stay alive under the rubble so long?

Turkey-Syria quake: After many stories of remarkable rescues from the rubble of last week's earthquakes we hear how the human body can survive in such extreme circumstances.

China and Iran look like strengthening ties with an oil deal - we have more on that in our business news.

And in Nigeria we hear from a restaurant owner called the Fish Lady about cost of living challenges.


WED 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syys64)
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WED 06:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxzdvk)
First UN aid convoy for quake survivors crosses into rebel areas

We're in Bab al-Salameh - one of two reopened border points in Syria - where the UN's first convoys have crossed to deliver much needed aid to earthquake victims in the rebel controlled area.

In his first interview since losing elections in October, Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro says he plans to return from the US next month to lead the opposition.

And Remember Nikki Haley? - the former US ambassador to the UN wants to be President, but can she beat big hitters like Ron De Santis and Donald Trump to the Republican nomination?


WED 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syywy8)
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WED 07:06 Newsday (w172yf902sxzjlp)
International aid begins to arrive in quake-hit opposition-held Syria

The death toll of the Turkey-Syria earthquake passes 41,000 - we go live to our reporter in southern Turkey and hear from the Syrian community abroad as they anxiously wait for news of their loved ones.

Former protégé of Donald Trump, Nikki Hayley, says she'll run for the United States Presidency next year. We'll look at what message she sends to fellow republicans.

And human rights violations are reported to be continuing in northern Ethiopia, with women being sexually assaulted in the region in their hundreds, even after a peace deal between the government and Tigrayan forces was signed last November - we have a special report from our correspondent.


WED 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syz0pd)
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WED 08:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32s7)
Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to Mick Lynch, leader of Britain’s biggest rail union the RMT. His members are striking for inflation proofed pay and job protection. It is a test case in a new era of worker versus employer fights with resonance across the world. But can the workers win?


WED 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkncys)
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WED 08:32 Business Daily (w3ct31d2)
Nigeria's election and the economy

Nigerians head to the polls very soon, in what's expected to be a very closely-contested election. In this episode of Business Daily Rob Young explores how the economy could impact the vote.

Africa’s largest economy, is struggling with soaring prices, fuel shortages and insecurity. We hear from Maty Ukhuegbe Osaro who runs a restaurant in Lagos called The Fish Lady, she tells us how the pandemic and rising prices have affected her business and about her hopes for the outcome of this election.

Economist and financial business boss, Bismarck Rewane, says us the uncertainty around the election has led some large businesses to hold off taking key decisions and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, and former finance minister in Nigeria tells us she's optimistic about Nigeria's economic potential.

Presenter / producer: Rob Young
Image :Campaign rally for the Labour Party in Lagos; Credit: Getty Images


WED 08:50 Witness History (w3ct3c6v)
'I developed Pokémon'

On 27 February 1996, gamers were first introduced to characters Pikachu, Eevee, and Charmander when the first Pokémon games were released in Japan.

Known as Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, the games were released simultaneously on the Nintendo Game Boy hand-held console.

In a matter of years the franchise would make the leap from an ageing games console to television animation and beyond, making it a worldwide pop culture powerhouse.

Kurt Brookes speaks to game developer Akihito Tomisawa about the development, release, and success of the game series.

A Made in Manchester production for BBC World Service.

(Photo: Pikachu. Credit: Made in Manchester)


WED 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syz4fj)
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WED 09:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69yh1x)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjknhpx)
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WED 09:32 The Compass (w3ct4xrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:32 today]


WED 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syz85n)
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WED 10:06 The Documentary (w3ct4xcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 on Saturday]


WED 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzcxs)
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WED 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69yqk5)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjknr65)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


WED 11:32 Love, Janessa (w3ct4ppf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 04:32 today]


WED 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzhnx)
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WED 12:06 Outlook (w3ct3y9q)
Breaking my addiction to war

Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop. It was his job as a BBC journalist to help the audience make sense of the madness of war, but he knew there was another more troubling reason he was drawn to these violent situations. They gave him something he couldn't get anywhere else in the same way. A massive rush of adrenaline and a huge dose of validation. Fergal knew this compulsive tendency wasn't healthy, but he couldn't stay away from the frontlines.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producers: May Cameron and Harry Graham
Sound Design: Joel Cox
Editor: Munazza Khan

(Photo: Fergal Keane. Credit: BBC)


WED 12:50 Witness History (w3ct3c6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


WED 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzmf1)
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WED 13:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69yz1f)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 13:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjknzpf)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


WED 13:32 Digital Planet (w3ct31zq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:32 on Tuesday]


WED 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzr55)
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WED 14:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr293g)
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon announces her resignation

Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced her resignation. She has led the Scottish National Party, which wants independence from Britain, for more than eight years. Ms Sturgeon has been a key figure in Scotland, as a member of the Scottish Parliament since it opened in 1999 and its longest serving First Minister.

Also in the programme: The UK's most expensive drug costs more than three million dollars per dose, and is the most expensive drug ever approved by the NHS; and the French high fashion brand Louis Vuitton has named the Grammy-winning producer, rapper, singer and songwriter Pharrell Williams as its new menswear creative director.


(Photo: First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks at a news conference at Bute House where she announced she will stand down as first minister, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain February 15, 2023. Jane Barlow/Pool via REUTERS)


WED 15:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzvx9)
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WED 15:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32s7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


WED 15:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkp75p)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


WED 15:32 World Business Report (w3ct3gg6)
New EU sanctions for Russia?

The European Union has unveiled plans to hit Russia with fresh sanctions worth nearly $12 billion. The EU has also formed a working group to explore whether frozen Russian assets could be used to help rebuild Ukraine.

We report on riots in Nigeria as unrest mounts over cash shortages. There are reports protesters have attacked banks and destroyed ATM machines.
It's the latest in a series of worsening problems caused by the introduction of new naira banknotes two months ago.

(Picture: The flags of Russia and the European Union. Credit: Getty Images.)


WED 16:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9syzznf)
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WED 16:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699fd0h)
Tigray war: Eritrean soldiers accused of rape

Ethiopia's government signed a peace deal with forces from the northern Tigray region last November, in a bid to end a brutal two-year civil war. But aid groups and locals have told the BBC that attacks on civilians - in particular, sexual assaults on women - have continued. We speak to our correspondent who's been investigating this.

As a young girl, Alice (not her real name) logged on to the popular live video chat website Omegle, and was randomly paired with a paedophile, who coerced her into becoming a digital sex slave. Nearly 10 years later the young American is suing Omegle in a landmark case that could pave the way for a wave of lawsuits against other social platforms. Our cyber repoter has been following the case.

And in Turkey and Syria some people are still being rescued from destroyed buildings alive, over a week after the earthquakes. We've been speaking to Deborah Swann, a nurse from the UK who has spent a week in Turkey helping to rescue people from underneath the rubble.

(Photo: Ammunition is seen next to a tank destroyed in a fight between the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Kasagita town, in Afar region, Ethiopia, February 25, 2022. Credit: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)


WED 17:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz03dk)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


WED 17:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699fhrm)
Turkey-Syria earthquakes: Syrian refugees return home

Home to more than four million Syrian refugees, Turkey has greatly tightened its border controls over recent years. Some refugees are now lining the border crossings and say they are going home because they no longer have anywhere to live in Turkey following the earthquakes. It follows reports that Turkey will relax immigrations rules. Our correspondent in Turkey, Caroline Davies plus Emre Temel from the BBC Turkish Service gives us the latest updates.

We also hear from Deborah Swann, a nurse from the UK who has spent a week in Turkey helping to rescue people from underneath the rubble.

Ethiopia's government signed a peace deal with forces from the northern Tigray region last November, in a bid to end a brutal two-year civil war. But aid groups and locals have told the BBC that attacks on civilians - in particular, sexual assaults on women - have continued. We speak to our correspondent who's been investigating this.


WED 18:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz074p)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


WED 18:06 Outlook (w3ct3y9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 today]


WED 18:50 Witness History (w3ct3c6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


WED 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0bwt)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


WED 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q69zpj6)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 19:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkpq56)
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WED 19:32 Sport Today (w3ct4lgq)
2023/02/15 GMT

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.


WED 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0gmy)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


WED 20:06 The Compass (w3ct4xrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:32 today]


WED 20:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkptxb)
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WED 20:32 Health Check (w3ct32xr)
Biting back: The fight against snakebite

Venomous snakebites are responsible for up to 150,000 deaths a year around the world – and they also leave around half a million survivors with life-changing injuries, including amputations and disfigurement.

In this week’s Health Check we investigate why snakebite still disproportionately affects poorer, more rural communities, and what is being done to tackle the problem.

We’ll talk to a mother in Kenya whose little girl was bitten by a snake not once, but twice, and to a doctor about how it feels to save lives. We’ll hear how anti-venoms are checked and how in many cases they are too expensive to afford and how there are not always enough supplies. And even when they are available some don’t work well.

Smitha Mundasad also visits the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions in Liverpool, England, where she gets to see a snake being “milked” for its venom – and finds out how new and improved anti-venoms are being created, all with a little help from camels.

Join us on a journey crossing continents, from the front line of the fight against snakebite to the hunt for new therapies.

Image: Herpetologist Edouard Crittenden “milking” a snake for its venom.

Presenter: Smitha Mundasad
Producers: Gerry Holt & Julia Ravey


WED 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0ld2)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


WED 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr34bc)
Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey try to go back to Syria after earthquakes

Thousands of Syrian war refugees who fled to Turkey are trying to go back to Syria after last week's earthquakes.

Also in the programme: the former Governor of South Carolina and US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is the first Republican to contest Donald Trump’s bid for the presidential nomination; and American actress Rachel Welch has died at the age of 82.

(Photo: Children play at Refaat Daho school that houses many refugees, after a deadly earthquake in Latakia, Syria. Credit: Reuters).


WED 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0q46)
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WED 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9vqnqq5s)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


WED 22:20 Sports News (w172yghkn1ynt5h)
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.


WED 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkq2dl)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


WED 22:32 World Business Report (w3ct3gjg)
Russia's tech brain drain

The EU have announced nearly $12 billion of sanctions aimed at weakening Moscow’s ability to maintain its “war machine” through trade bans and technology export controls. We find out what impact sanctions are already having on Russia, and how they are causing young tech workers to leave the country.

We hear from a former senior economic advisor in Barack Obama's administration, about President Joe Biden's appointment of Lael Brainard, vice-chair of the US Federal Reserve, as his top economic advisor.

And as the first UN aid convoy arrives in Syria, we get reaction from the country as anger grows over the lack of support so far.

(Image: Flag of Russia on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away. Credit: Gwengoat/Getty Images)


WED 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0twb)
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WED 23:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32s7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


WED 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkq64q)
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WED 23:32 Love, Janessa (w3ct4ppf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 04:32 today]

THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2023

THU 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz0ymg)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 00:06 The Documentary (w3ct4xcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 on Saturday]


THU 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz12cl)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 01:06 Business Matters (w172ydqbbld0z8y)
How are sanctions affecting Russia?

With nearly $12 billion of new Russia sanctions announced by the EU, we discuss the economic impacts those already announced are having, and how they are causing young tech workers to leave the country.

It's hoped the latest sanctions will weaken Moscow’s “war machine” through trade bans and technology export controls.

(Picture: Oil refinery plant of petroleum on the background of of the Russian flag. Credit: Anton Petrus)


THU 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz163q)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b0jr3)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


THU 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkqkd3)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


THU 02:32 Assignment (w3ct304y)
On the frontline of Brexit

No part of the United Kingdom has felt the impact of Brexit more strongly than Northern Ireland. Home to the country's only land border with the European Union, the province is the focus of passionate debate about Britain's future relationship with Europe. Three years on from Brexit, the temporary agreement, the so called “Protocol,” that was designed to ease the UK's exit from the EU but left Northern Ireland in legal and political limbo is coming to an end. And what might replace it is causing uncertainty and unease there. David Baker travels to Northern Ireland and assesses the impact of Brexit. He meets businesses that have benefited from the agreement and want it to stay and others who say it’s been damaging and feel their identities are threatened.

Producer: Jim Frank

(Photo: Stephen Barnes. Credit: Getty Images)


THU 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz19vv)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 03:06 Outlook (w3ct3y9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:06 on Wednesday]


THU 03:50 Witness History (w3ct3c6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Wednesday]


THU 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz1flz)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 04:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b0s7c)
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen


THU 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkqswc)
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.


THU 04:32 The Food Chain (w3ct38p6)
The growth of food banks in Africa

Food banks have operated for decades in North America and Europe. They are generally operated as non profits, connecting food businesses that have waste with individuals, families and charities that need food.

In 2006 there was just one African food bank in Egypt. A second opened in South Africa in 2009. Today there are around twenty five across the continent.

In this programme we look at how African countries have adapted food banks to their needs, and hear how they address criticisms that the food bank model itself is flawed when it comes to addressing food poverty.

We ask Nairobi based reporter Michael Kaloki to spend a day with Food Banking Kenya, and its founder and CEO John Gathungu. Michael visits their warehouse storage, meets small holder farmers donating surplus food, and speaks to women living in some of Nairobi’s informal settlements that rely on food donations.

Ruth Alexander speaks to Elijah Addo, who founded one of Africa’s first food banks in 2015, Food for All Africa in Ghana. Gaby Kafarhire at The Global FoodBanking Network, based in Chicago in the United States, talks about the particular challenges African food banks face. And researcher Gareth Haysom at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town shares his concerns about the current system.

Presented by Ruth Alexander.

Produced by Beatrice Pickup.

Additional reporting by Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.

(Image: a food bank worker lifting a crate of vegetables onto a truck. Credit: BBC)


THU 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz1kc3)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 05:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy260j)
Millions of children in urgent need after the quake in Turkey and Syria

More than 7 million children are in urgent need in Turkey and Syria following last week's devastating earthquake. Beyond safety and a place to stay, children need education and a form of classroom routine.

Day one on the campaign trail for Nikki Haley, the presidential hopeful aspiring to eclipse Donald Trump in the race for the Republican party nomination.

Ukraine says the Russian invaders are losing 800 soldiers a day - if the claim is true what it might mean for the war ?


THU 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz1p37)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 06:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy29rn)
Helping Turkey and Syria's children after last week's devastating earthquake

What is the fate of the millions of children who have survived the horrors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria? Amidst the rubble and displacement, NGOS and individuals are trying to help these children deal with the trauma and rebuild their lives.

The 5,000 residents of Palestine in Ohio demand answers after a train carrying toxic chemicals crashed in their town. They fear their water is no longer safe to drink and are scared they are inhaling dangerous noxious fumes. But the train company and state authorities aren't reassuring.

And in Ukraine we hear about the Russian prisoners of war who may not be sent back home like other POWs because of accusations they may have committed war crimes.


THU 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz1svc)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 07:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy2fhs)
How can children's lives be normalised after the Turkey-Syria quake?

Millions of children's lives have been severely disrupted by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. As many live in freezing makeshift camps what's needed to make their lives stable and get them back into the classroom?

Residents of a small town in the state of Ohio in the United States are worried that they've been exposed to toxic chemicals after a train carrying hazardous substances derailed.

Plus the unexpected resignation by Scotland's first Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Did she lose the confidence of her supporters and what now for Scottish independence?


THU 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz1xlh)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


THU 08:06 The Inquiry (w3ct39vb)
Is everything okay at Facebook?

The owner of Facebook - Meta - is reinstating Donald Trump’s account after a two-year suspension. The former US president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram after his posts were deemed to have encouraged the Capitol riots in 2021. In a statement Meta's president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said a review found Mr Trump's accounts were no longer a risk to public safety. Donald Trump pointed out that Facebook was in financial trouble and probably needed him back for the money it can raise.

Daily user numbers for Facebook grew to an average of two billion in December 2022 - about a quarter of the world's population. The bigger-than-expected growth helped drive new optimism about the company, which has been under pressure as its costs rise and advertising sales drop.

Where does the social media giant go from here? Does it have a future and clear direction of travel? How did it become so big? How does it work now and what does it do with our data? Also, when has it gone wrong and what are its challenges now?

This week on The Inquiry, we’re asking: is everything okay at Facebook?

Presented by Charmaine Cozier

Researcher John Cossee
Producer Simon Coe
Editor Tara McDermott
Technical producer Richard Hannaford
Broadcast Coordinator Brenda Brown

(Facebook symbol. Image credit: Dado Ruvić /Reuters)


THU 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkr8vw)
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THU 08:32 Business Daily (w3ct3131)
Turkey earthquake: What is the future for young people?

As the rescue and recovery effort from the devastating earthquake continues, young people who survived are making tough decisions about the future.

With Turkey already struggling economically even before the disaster, do they leave and start again in a new region, or a new country? Or stay and help rebuild?

Victoria Craig travels to Ankara where she meets Berkay, a second year design student from Gaziantep, one of the most badly affected cities. He drove for 12 hours with his family to reach the Turkish capital. He says he's not sure what the future holds, and he is considering moving to another European country.

Roger Kelly is the lead regional economist for Turkey at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He explains how youth unemployment is a particular challenge for southern Turkey, and says it's difficult to say whether people who have been displaced will return when areas are rebuilt.

And Professor Güneş Aşık from TOBB Economics and Technical University says students affected by the earthquake might not find it that easy - they might have to drop out of university to support their families.

Produced and presented by Victoria Craig. Additional production by Anil Ergın.

(Image: A rescue centre in Ankara. Credit: Getty Images)


THU 08:50 Witness History (w3ct3c2b)
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb

On 16 February 1923, the sealed burial chamber of ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh Tutankhamun was opened for the first time.

Mike Gallagher takes us back to the Valley of the Kings and the discovery of the ancient Egyptian ruler king’s resting place in 1922 by the English archaeologist Howard Carter.

This programme was first broadcast in 2010.

(Photo:The opening of Tutankhamun's tomb. Credit: Getty Images)


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THU 09:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b1cz0)
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THU 09:32 Assignment (w3ct304y)
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THU 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz252r)
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THU 10:06 The Forum (w3ct38tq)
Neanderthals: Meet the relatives

Developments in new technology such as DNA sequencing have transformed our understanding of the Neanderthals, one of a group of archaic humans who occupied Europe, the Middle East and Western Asia more than 300,000 years ago.

First identified by fossil remains in 1856 in a German quarry, the Neanderthals led an extremely physical existence as hunter-gatherers. They were stronger than us, adaptable as a species to huge variations in climate, with brains as large as ours and sophisticated ways of creating tools.

Many of us carry some of the DNA of Neanderthals, thanks to interbreeding with homo sapiens. Although the Neanderthals today are no longer with us, their story has a lot to tell us about ourselves and our future survival on the planet.

Rajan Datar is joined by Janet Kelso, a computational biologist and Group Leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She specialises in the analysis of DNA sequencing of ancient people such as Neanderthals; Katerina Harvati, the Senckenberg Professor for Paleoanthropology and Director of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Tübingen. Her work focuses on the origins of modern humans and Neanderthal evolution; and archaeologist and writer Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Her award-winning book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art was published in 2020.

Produced by Fiona Clampin for the BBC World Service

(Image: Neanderthal Female, re-created by artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Photo: Joe McNally/Getty Images)


THU 10:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct36gw)
Muay Thai: World champion Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu

American Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu started Muay Thai fighting in Boulder, Colorado. It was a trip to Thailand that made her realise that if she wanted to progress in the sport, she would have to move there permanently to train and fight.

She quickly became one of the best fighters in the martial art, surpassing 200 fights; something no other western fighter has achieved in Thailand. She became WBC Muay Thai minimum weight world champion in 2023.

Sylvie has been speaking to Wayne Wright for this Made in Manchester production.

(Photo: Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu in training for a fight. Credit: Kevin Von Duuglas-Ittu)


THU 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz28tw)
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THU 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b1mg8)
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THU 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkrn38)
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THU 11:32 The Food Chain (w3ct38p6)
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THU 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz2dl0)
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THU 12:06 Outlook (w3ct34xc)
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment

In 1951, Greenland native Helene Thiesen was just seven years old when two Danish men knocked at the family home. That moment would shape the rest of her life. These men, acting at the invitation of the Danish colonial government were rounding up the brightest Inuit children and sending them to live in Denmark to be re-educated as model Danish citizens or ‘little Danes’. Helene suffered terribly from being separated from her mother and siblings and it would take her many decades to discover the horrible truth behind it all: she was part of an experiment. Of the 22 children that were taken, Helene is now one of the few survivors.

Dr Susanna Blackwell is a Swedish-American biologist and part of a team investigating the effects of man-made sounds on narhwals, long-tusked whales that swim the Arctic’s icy seas. Through some cleverly-placed recording equipment she shares the rare joys of riding with these 'unicorns of the sea'. This was first broadcast in 2018.

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Edgar Maddicott
Translator: Alette Rye Scales
Voice: Julia Holden

(Photo: Helene Thiesen. Credit: BBC)


THU 12:50 Witness History (w3ct3c2b)
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THU 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz2jb4)
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THU 13:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b1vyj)
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THU 13:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkrwlj)
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THU 13:32 Health Check (w3ct32xr)
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THU 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz2n28)
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THU 14:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr560k)
Inside a prisoner of war camp in Ukraine

The War in Ukraine has seen little or no diplomacy between Kyiv and Moscow. However, there has been cooperation around prisoner of war exchanges. More than 1,700 Ukrainian men and women have reportedly made it home this way so far. The BBC has been given rare access to one facility where captured Russian soldiers are held in the west of the country.

Also in the programme: Customers have smashed and set fire to banks in Lebanon; and an update on a toxic chemical spill in Ohio.

(Picture: Hundreds of captured Russian soldiers, conscripts, and mercenaries are held at facilities in Ukraine. Credit: BBC)


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THU 15:06 The Inquiry (w3ct39vb)
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THU 15:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjks42s)
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THU 15:32 World Business Report (w3ct3g55)
Nigeria's currency riots

Nigeria's currency swap is causing unrest among its people. Three months ago the government introduced newly designed notes or Naira - and asked people to swap their old notes. The deadline for that was supposed to be last Friday. But not enough new notes have been released, leaving many without cash to pay for vital items.

We also look at Argentina's eye-wateringly high inflation rate.

(Picture: The (old) Nigerian naira. Getty Images)


THU 16:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz2wkj)
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THU 16:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699j8xl)
Turkey-Syria earthquakes: Latakia

We bring updates on the situation in the areas in Turkey and Syria that were partly destroyed by the earthquakes. Also, an aid worker speaks to us from the port city of Latakia in Syria.

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has tried to calm the tensions over lack of cash and announced that some old Naira banknotes can remain in general circulation for another two months. We hear from people in Lagos who are trying to locate Naira banknotes.

We speak to a father and his daughter about her viral Tik Tok video that helped to boost sales of the book her dad spent 14 years writing and next 11 years hoping for the thriller to take off.

We talk about the title race in the English Premier League.

We explain what the Tik Tok videos with #GymCreep or #GymWeirdo are about. We also talk about a new trend on social media called "deinfluencing".

(Photo: Residential buildings stand in Latakia, Syria, February 15, 2023. Credit: Amr Alfiky/Reuters)


THU 17:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz309n)
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THU 17:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699jdnq)
Ohio train derailment

We hear about the fears in the US state of Ohio about a toxic chemical spill following a train derailment and a huge fire 13 days ago. Residents in East Palestine share their anxiety over potential risk of air, soil and water pollution.

We bring updates on the situation in the areas in Turkey and Syria that were partly destroyed by the earthquakes. An aid worker speaks to us from the port city of Latakia in Syria.

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has tried to calm the tensions over lack of cash and announced that some old Naira banknotes can remain in general circulation for another two months. We hear from people in Lagos who are trying to locate Naira banknotes.

A letter written in February 1916 has arrived at a flat in south London more than 100 years later. Our reporter explains.

We speak to a father and his daughter about her viral Tik Tok video that helped to boost sales of the book her dad spent 14 years writing and next 11 years hoping for the thriller to take off.

(Photo: Members of the community gather to discuss their safety and other environmental concerns at a town hall meeting following a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals, in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 15, 2023. Credit: Alan Freed/Reuters)


THU 18:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz341s)
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THU 18:06 Outlook (w3ct34xc)
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THU 18:50 Witness History (w3ct3c2b)
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THU 19:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz37sx)
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THU 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b2lf9)
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THU 19:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjksm29)
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THU 19:32 Sport Today (w3ct4lb6)
2023/02/16 GMT

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.


THU 20:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3ck1)
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THU 20:06 Assignment (w3ct304y)
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THU 20:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjksqtf)
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THU 20:32 Science In Action (w3ct36bc)
CRISPR & bioethics

In the decade since the genome editing capabilities of CRISPR-Cas9 emerged, research into novel medicines has boomed – but alongside progress comes new ethical considerations. Controversy erupted in 2018, when Chinese scientist He Jiankui created the first babies with edited genomes. After leaving prison last year, he’s now back in the lab trying to raise support for new research but refuses to discuss the ethical implications of his work. Dr Joy Zhang recently arranged a bioethics seminar and invited He Jiankui, it was the first time he’d agreed to engage with a global cohort of CRISPR scientists since returning to his research.

Going back in time from cutting-edge to ancient technology, some of the oldest stone tools ever used by human ancestors have been unearthed at a fossil site in Kenya. Professor Tom Plummer talks us through the findings and how important the tools were in our evolution.

And we immerse ourselves in the mysterious sounds of the Arctic and Antarctic, from singing ice to the man-made noises of oil and gas drilling. These dramatic soundscapes, created for the Polar Soundscapes project, showcase just how busy our oceans are. Dr Geraint Rhys Whittaker, composer and project lead, believes a novel approach may be required to prompt climate action.

Image Credit: Anthony Wallace

Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Harrison Lewis
Assistant Producer: Sophie Ormiston


THU 21:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3h95)
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THU 21:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr617g)
Zelensky: No territorial compromise with Russia

In a BBC interview to mark a year since Russia's full-scale invasion, President Zelensky says conceding land would mean Russia could "keep coming back", while Western weapons would bring peace closer.
Also on the programme: Nigeria’s cash crisis; and toxic contamination in East Palestine, Ohio.


(Photo: President Zelensky of Ukraine. Credit: EPA / Shutterstock)


THU 22:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3m19)
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THU 22:06 The Newsroom (w172yrx9vqntm2w)
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THU 22:20 Sports News (w172yghkn1yrq2l)
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.


THU 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjksz9p)
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THU 22:32 World Business Report (w3ct3g7f)
Nigeria's Naira Shortage: President Buhari extends use of old 200 naira notes

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele, has directed banks to make the old 200 naira notes available from today following President Muhammadu Buhari's extension until April 10.

And in Lebanon, furious protests have continued to explode on the streets of the capital Beirut with people setting fire to bank branches which remain closed, and refuse to allow withdrawals.


(Picture: Nigerian 200 naira old banknotes. Credit;Getty Images.)


THU 23:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3qsf)
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THU 23:06 The Inquiry (w3ct39vb)
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THU 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkt31t)
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THU 23:32 The Food Chain (w3ct38p6)
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FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2023

FRI 00:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3vjk)
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FRI 00:06 The Forum (w3ct38tq)
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FRI 00:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct36gw)
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FRI 01:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz3z8p)
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FRI 01:06 Business Matters (w172ydqbbld3w61)
Turkey earthquakes: UN launches $1 billion appeal

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is seeking international support for the people of Turkey who were affected by the massive earthquakes.

We also talk about the issues around changing pensions and the retirement age which have sparked weeks of protest in France.

Will Bain talks through these issues with Isin Elicin, a freelance journalist based in Istanbul in Turkey and Ralph Silva from the Silva Research Network in Toronto.

(Picture: UN Secretary- General Antonio Guterres. Credit: Getty Images.)


FRI 02:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz430t)
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FRI 02:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b3fn6)
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FRI 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjktg96)
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FRI 02:32 World Football (w3ct3hrf)
Papua New Guinea's World Cup dream

Papua New Guinea captain Rayleen Bauelua looks ahead to the World Cup qualification play-offs.

Picture on website: Papua New Guinea women's soccer team line up before a friendly game against the Philippines. (Photo by Luis Veniegra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)


FRI 03:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz46ry)
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FRI 03:06 Outlook (w3ct34xc)
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FRI 03:50 Witness History (w3ct3c2b)
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FRI 04:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4bj2)
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FRI 04:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b3p4g)
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FRI 04:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjktpsg)
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FRI 04:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct424m)
Stripped of my spirituality

Aged four, Mary was playing in her parents’ front yard, when she was grabbed by “the government people” and taken to a Catholic boarding school to be turned into a Christian. She’s just one of thousands of Native Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes and put into boarding schools from the 1800s right up to the 1970s. According to a US government report, the purpose of these schools was to strip indigenous people of their spiritual beliefs, culture and land. A government investigation also found that physical, emotional and sexual abuse was “rampant”. Indigenous Americans’ spiritual beliefs are now experiencing a renaissance, but is this revival enough to enable Mary and her friends heal from a childhood of trauma in America’s residential schools?

Presenter: Leana Hosea
Producer: Leana Hosea with Rajeev Gupta
Production co-ordinator: Nancy Bennie
Editor: Helen Grady


FRI 05:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4g86)
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FRI 05:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy52xm)
Ukrainian leader insists he would not cede territory for peace with Russia

President Volodymir Zelensky of Ukraine tells the BBC his nation won't cede a metre of its territory to Russia in any potential peace deal.

We head to Turkey to get the latest news - including at least one dramatic rescue - following last week's devastating earthquake.

In the US, a grand jury in Georgia releases part of its findings about whether the campaign of the former President Donald Trump tried to interfere in the 2020 election in the state - and it's not good news for Mr Trump.


FRI 06:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4l0b)
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FRI 06:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy56nr)
Russia leaders not invited to major global conference in Germany

As Russian leaders are excluded from an annual security gathering, European leaders today will be discussing if they should send fighter jets to help Ukraine - we hear from Poland which has a key feeling on the issue.
Belarus is a neighbouring country to Ukraine and has had a significant role in Russia’s invasion but could President Lukashenko be willing to move his alliance with Vladimir Putin to the next level?
With 42,000 people now having died in the Turkish and Syrian earthquakes the UN is asking for a billion dollars to be raised – we hear from a doctor whose two hospitals are struggling in the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Idlib.


FRI 07:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4prg)
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FRI 07:06 Newsday (w172yf902sy5bdw)
Ukrainian leader vows his troops would keep defending their country

The Ukrainian leader has insisted he will not cede territory for peace with Russia; he made these comments ahead of a global security conference which gets underway in the German city of Munich.

Meanwhile the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has said he will continue to support Russia and even deploy his troops in this fight.

And we hear about growing anger over why so many buildings collapsed in the huge earthquakes which hit Turkey and Syria last week.


FRI 08:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4thl)
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FRI 08:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32h6)
Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM

Stephen Sackur speaks to Waris Dirie, the Somali born model, writer and activist. She was raised in poverty, and later became the muse of big fashion houses in New York and beyond. She chose campaigning over the catwalk, speaking out against female genital mutilation, which she experienced and is now determined to eliminate. Is this a fight she can win?


FRI 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkv5rz)
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FRI 08:32 Business Daily (w3ct30t0)
Sweden leads green steel race

Boden is a remote town in northern Sweden surrounded by pine forests, it's at the forefront of an initiative to try and clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries - steel production.

Business Daily presenter Maddy Savage visits the site of a new plant in Boden which aims to cut carbon emissions from the steel making process by 95 percent and bring more jobs and people to a shrinking community.

Andy Turner is the head of construction for H2Green Steel, the start-up behind the plant in Boden, he tells us more about the site and the process of making greener steel and Katinka Lund Waagsaether, senior policy advisor with climate think tank e3g - third generation environmentalism - tells us how well is Sweden doing in the race to make steel production more sustainable.

Producer / presenter: Maddy Savage
Image: How the Boden plant is expected to look; Credit: H2Green Steel


FRI 08:50 Witness History (w3ct3bxt)
First winter ascent of Everest

On 17 February 1980, the first people climbed Everest in winter.

John Beauchamp hears from Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki from Poland who were the men who did it.

It was at the height of the Cold War, when Poland was behind the Iron Curtain.

The two climbers decided that they had to show the world that their country was still capable of doing extraordinary things.

Despite a lack of money and equipment and using whatever they could lay their hands on – including welding goggles – they made it to the top of the world’s tallest mountain.

A Free Range and Overcoat Media co-production for BBC World Service.

(Photo: Leszek Cichy (left) Krzysztof Wielicki (right). Credit: Krzysztof Wielicki)


FRI 09:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz4y7q)
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FRI 09:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b48w3)
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FRI 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkv9j3)
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FRI 09:32 Tech Tent (w3ct4kj5)
Apple workers accuse firm of 'union busting'

One employee tells the BBC the tech giant has been attempting to 'scare' staff. The firm says it continues to 'make enhancements to our industry-leading benefits as a part of the overall support we provide to our valued team members.' We'll also hear from the African Tech Summit taking place in Kenya. And we learn how a small team of visual effects artists created the look of the stunning Oscar contender - Everything, Everywhere All at Once - using laptops in their bedrooms.

Image credit: Reuters/ Joshua Roberts


FRI 10:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz51zv)
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FRI 10:06 The Real Story (w3ct33q8)
Can Lula fix the Amazon?

Brazil’s newly-elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has pledged to protect the Amazon and to reach zero deforestation by 2030.

During a recent meeting with US President Biden, Lula said the rainforest had been "invaded" under the previous administration. His predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, relaxed environmental protections, encouraging mining and logging in the Amazon that he said would help economic development.

Voters will now be waiting to see if they can trust Lula to follow through on the promises he has made so far for the Amazon. But Lula faces huge challenges: The Brazilian Congress elected in the October polls is still largely dominated by conservatives, with Bolsonaro’s PL the largest party in the lower house. Lula’s government will also have to contend with widespread violent crime and illegal mining and logging taking place across the region, even in the protected territories of indigenous communities. The Amazon has been under increasing pressure recently with Brazil setting a new deforestation record last year for the amount of trees cut down in the rainforest in one month.

So what needs to happen to save the Amazon? Can preservation and economic development go hand in hand? How important is the conservation of the rainforest for the rest of the world? And will Lula live up to his promise to end deforestation by the end of the decade?

Chris Morris is joined by:

Carlos Nobre is a climatologist who is chair of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change. He's also a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Federal University of São Paulo

Christian Lohbauer is a political scientist and founder of the political party - Partido Novo (NOVO)

Richard Lapper is the former Latin America editor for the Financial Times and the author of Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro published in 2021

Also featuring:

Ricardo Salles, Minister of the Environment from 2019 to 2021, under Jair Bolsonaro

Photo: A member of the Xikrin indigenous group fighting deforestation in the Amazon, Para, 20 September 2019. Credit: European Photopress Agency


FRI 11:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz55qz)
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FRI 11:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b4jcc)
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FRI 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkvk0c)
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FRI 11:32 World Football (w3ct3hrf)
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FRI 12:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz59h3)
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FRI 12:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct380k)
BBC Ukrainian: a year of war

Since the start of the war in Ukraine nearly a year ago, thousands of lives have been lost on both sides, and millions of Ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes. For BBC Ukrainian, it's been a year of upheaval, with many journalists from Kyiv moving to new hubs in Lviv and Warsaw, and some living apart from family members. We hear how the team have continued to report the war, from editor Marta Shokalo in Warsaw, Daria Taradai in Lviv and Oleg Karpyak in Kyiv.

Ukraine war - perspectives from around the world
Over the past year, Russia has been building on its already strong ties to many countries around the world, using trade deals, historic loyalties and propaganda. We get perspectives from China, Latin America and Africa from BBC Chinese editor Howard Zhang, Grigor Atanesian from the BBC's Global Disinformation Unit and Luis Fajardo from BBC Monitoring.

(Photo: The Ukrainian national flag flies over Kyiv. Credit: Raul Moreno/SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty Images)


FRI 12:50 Witness History (w3ct3bxt)
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FRI 13:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz5f77)
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FRI 13:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b4rvm)
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FRI 13:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkvshm)
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FRI 13:32 Science In Action (w3ct36bc)
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FRI 14:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz5jzc)
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FRI 14:06 Newshour (w172yfcgdzr82xn)
Zelensky urges speed in decisions to limit Russia

Addressing the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said there was no alternative to a Ukrainian victory and freedom could not be compromised.

Also on the programme, Russian and Chinese forces are starting military exercises today off the coast of South Africa; And, there is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s.

(Photo: Munich Security Conference 2023 16/02/2023 European Pressphoto Agency)


FRI 15:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz5nqh)
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FRI 15:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32h6)
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FRI 15:30 BBC News Summary (w172ykrcrjkw0zw)
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FRI 15:32 World Business Report (w3ct3fw4)
World security takes centre stage

World leaders including the Ukrainian President are gathered in Germany for the Munich Security Conference. It's seen as the leading global gathering on defence matters, at a time when security issues are high on everyone's agenda.

Participants include 40 heads of state and government and nearly 100 ministers. Russia has not been invited this year, nor has Iran - but China is sending one of its top diplomats.

(Picture: The Munich Security Conference. Credit: Getty Images.)


FRI 16:00 BBC News (w172ykqk9sz5sgm)
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FRI 16:06 BBC OS (w172yg21699m5tp)
Bruce Willis: What is frontotemporal dementia?

We explain Bruce Willis's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and hear from people whose family members have the same disease.

We go to Nigeria for the latest on the the unrest in Lagos thought be be linked to a continuing cash shortage.

In sport, we cover the story about India’s top cricket selector Chetan Sharma, who has resigned after being caught in an undercover TV sting.

We speak to our reporter who has had exclusive access to a group of British fighters who have been in the frontlines in Ukraine since the early days of the invasion.

We hear from people who have started up fundraising projects to help people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

(Photo: Bruce Willis attends CocoBaba and Ushopal activity on November 4, 2019 in Shanghai, China. Credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images)


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Bao Fan: Chinese tech billionaire goes missing

Shares in a Chinese investment bank have plummeted to a record low after its billionaire founder was reported missing. Our China Media analyst talks about the reaction in China to Bao Fan’s disappearance.

We speak to people who have started up fundraising projects to help people affected by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

The BBC's Alice Cuddy has been in southern Turkey covering the rescue effort. She and her local fixer share what they witnessed on the ground.

We find out what's it been like for people who have been testing out chatbots.

We go back to the train derailment story in the US state of Ohio to find out more about the chemicals the freight train was carrying.

(Photo: Fan Bao founder and CEO of China Renaissance speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. Credit: Mike Blake/File Photo/Reuters)


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FRI 18:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct380k)
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FRI 18:50 Witness History (w3ct3bxt)
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FRI 19:06 The Newsroom (w172yl85q6b5hbd)
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FRI 19:32 Sport Today (w3ct4l5p)
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BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.


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FRI 20:06 Tech Tent (w3ct4kj5)
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FRI 20:32 CrowdScience (w3ct3j87)
Are yoga claims bogus claims?

Yoga benefits our health in many ways, say the yogis, but which claims are backed up by science? Can yoga actually alleviate depression, fix lower-back pain or even reduce cardiovascular disease?

Presenter Marnie Chesterton gets into her Lotus (position) and finds out first-hand at a class. Whilst in warrior one, she discusses the potential physical and mental health benefits of this ancient art of stretching, balance and movement with her class teacher. Returning from mat to studio, Marnie puts some of those claims to experts around the globe. She investigates the evidence to find out whether health boosting properties are the key to yoga's enduring popularity.


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FRI 22:32 World Business Report (w3ct3fyd)
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FRI 23:06 HARDtalk (w3ct32h6)
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