incredible reporting by Quentin Sommerville

Springtime 🏡

Oh yes. Cotton picking as a teenager was no fun at all

Love this programme - such a varied and lively agenda with Julian Worricker. Great to meet Colleen Graffy

Tune in to Weekend BBC World Service w/ Julian Worricker & Colleen Graffy George Parker

Pressure grows on Netanyahu over Gaza war. We hear from the mother of an IDF soldier

What happens next in Georgia?

A student of Moorehouse College on Biden’s commencement speech there

Tune in to Weekend BBC World Service 📻 w/ Krupa Thakrar Padhy & Jacquelin Magnay Alan Posener

Aaron David Miller on Biden’s Gaza remarks, Ben Hall on Ukraine’s recruitment drive, Jen Stout on travels to 🇺🇦 Thorsten Benner on Xi’s European tour, The Beach Boys new book & #Eurovision

ANja’s extraordinary photographs fromAfghanistan and Pakistan on display today at Harvard Kennedy School. Exhibition sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Politics, Media and Public Policy and the Niemen Foundation

#RSFIndex Albania and Serbia with the lowest press freedom rankings in Europe this year, after Russia, Belarus and Turkey. Significant drop also in Italy, Kosovo, Croatia, Austria, Montenegro, Bosnia and Georgia.

#WorldServicePresents : BBC World Service reveals for the first time that 310 of its journalists are working in exile bbc.com/mediacentre/20….

Slovak prosecutors investigating the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé Martina Kušnírová have resigned after the government dissolved their department.

A Kuciak family attorney said the state’s move was an “act of revenge”.

occrp.org/en/daily/18685…

Join #WorldServicePresents to celebrate the remarkable work of journalists, ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Friday.

You can livestream many of the live events here bbc.in/3Wl5WYq

Adnan El-Bursh reported on the Gaza war living in a tent, eating one meal a day, and struggling to keep his wife and five children safe.

Warning: This video contains images some viewers may find disturbing.

#WorldServicePresents his full YouTube doc bbc.in/44oRmkn

Do join us ! #WorldPressFreedom BBC World Service

Last Friday at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia I spoke to Fergal Keane who has been incredibly open and honest about his experiences with PTSD after decades as a reporter covering conflict. Watch here: journalismfestival.com/programme/2024… #ijf24 journalism festival