BBC
Arabic steps up its broadcasts
BBC
World Service in Arabic, BBC Arabic, intensifies its broadcasts
in the run up to the general elections in Israel, President George
Bush's State of the Union Address and the UN Iraq Weapons Inspection
Report.
Today
(Monday 27 January 2003), the BBC Arabic team will produce a special
broadcast on the UN Weapons Inspectors' Report from Iraq, including
interviews and analyses.
On
Wednesday 29 January, BBC Arabic brings live coverage from Washington
of the State of the Union Address.
Special
programming includes analysis of the speech and interviews with
regional experts.
Throughout
this period the team is also bringing extensive coverage of the
Israeli general elections.
Radio
output includes the flagship morning daily news programme Al Alam
Haza al Sabah (The World This Morning), while bbcarabic.com
will be bringing detailed coverage of the Israeli general elections,
including all the latest developments, interviews with key politicians
and analysts and opportunities for online discussion and debates.
Notes
to Editors
BBC
World Service broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages
and is available on radio and online at bbcworldservice.com.
It
has a global audience of 150 million listeners while its websites
receive 100 million page impressions each month.
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