BBC News Introduces New International Programme

The BBC News Channel has announced a new international programme at 9pm to provide its viewers with the best global news reporting.

From 1 June 2015, the BBC News Channel will bring UK audiences the interactive programme Outside Source on weeknights from Monday to Thursday.

Since first launching on BBC World News in 2014, Outside Source has been heralded as representing a completely new style of deconstructed news for the digital age. Using state-of-the-art touch-screen technology, presenter Ros Atkins can access a plethora of visual, aural and social media sources to bring the latest stories of the day to life.

The new, hour-long programme shown in the UK and around the world will feature Ros in the heart of the BBC’s multimedia newsroom from where he can share the latest reports as they are filed by the BBC’s vast global network of correspondents out in the field. At the same time, he can monitor instant reactions on social media and show interactive maps, graphics, satellite images, photos and live feeds of breaking or developing news stories, all in real time at the swipe of the screen.

From Friday to Sunday, the 9pm slot on the BBC News Channel will host the latest international news and in-depth global analysis with World News Today. Already a well-established BBC brand around the world, the programme will also bring sport and business news via the BBC’s network of multimedia, multilingual reporters.

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