Thirty years of BBC World News
BBC World News looks back at the last three decades as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The discussion about pornography and sex needs to be brought out into the mainstream, the adult film director Erika Lust has said. She told BBC Hardtalk that whether we like it or not porn had become sex education and so it was very important for parents and educators to talk to younger generations and explain…
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has expressed her concern about the ongoing violence between Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs in the country. “Jerusalem is a city of peace and a city of co-existence,” she told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur. “What we have seen this week is actually the result of a horrible incitement of…
Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.
The special security pact announced between UK, US and Australia has been welcomed by John Bolton, the former US National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations. He said, “Australia, the UK and the US are reacting to China. They didn’t put it that way, but there aren’t many other threats in the Indo-Pacific…
The Taliban have paraded military equipment, captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, through the streets of Kandahar. The militant showcase comes just days after US troops left Afghanistan, ending over two decades of military presence in the country.
Claims by Myanmar’s military that the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi illegally accepted $600,000 (£430,000) and 11kg of gold are “ridiculous”, Burmese journalist Thin Lei Win has said. The Rome based journalist told BBC World News the allegations were not unexpected. “A lot of people’s take is that what they are trying to do…