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Christine Dawood wanted to talk to the BBC and pay tribute to the son and husband she lost.
#Titan
Longer interview running on
@BBCWorld
on-air and online
🎥
@robtaylortv
@EloiseAlanna
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EXCL: The BBC Director General Tim Davie has apologised for the disruption caused across sports programming after removing
@GaryLineker
off air.
I put to him trust is a key value of the BBC, many don’t trust him - but he says he is not resigning.
Coming up
@BBCNews
@BBCWorld
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#DonaldTrump
due to speak inside DC hotel.
Outside, the
@DNC
paid for a couple of tv vans to troll him. They play the moment Fox News projected Biden’s election victory.
“Fake news!” his supporters here cry.
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This is the closest America will physically get to
#Ukraine
.
The 🇺🇸 Secretary of State Antony Blinken today stood at the Poland-Ukraine border to meet 🇺🇦 FM
@DmytroKuleba
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To those who accuse me of being a BBC stooge… (other cliche insults are widely available in my mentions)…I spoke to
@LukwesaBurak
about my interview and doing my job.
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I was granted only a few minutes with the DG to ask questions. This is the full interview:
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Rabbi Susan Silverman runs Miklat to help refugees. She says 2500 families around Israel are ready to provide shelter: “We have a history of needing people to take risks for us, to open their homes and to help us. This anti-Jewish govt policy is rejecting that legacy.”
#BBCNews
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Why was Gary allowed to criticise the Qatar govt on BBC? What was different this time? Because he attacked the Uk govt?
Did UK govt, Tory party - which you were once an official for - and right wing media put pressure on you?
Full interview playing on
@BBCNews
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If America is wondering who is
@GaryLineker
and what is this huge row playing out in the UK....
I briefly spoke to BBC Director General Tim Davie about the decision for
#GaryLineker
to step back from presenting.
More on
@BBCWorld
at 1700ET with
@LauraTrevelyan
hosting
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The DG did NOT see any of my questions. Some inc:
What if Gary supported UK govt policy on migrants - that would be an opinion - would he have been taken off air?
What about BBC Chairman Richard Sharpe M? Why’s he in a job? He’s accused of facilitating a loan for Boris Johnson
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In terms of why me and why in DC? Tim Davie happened to be in DC when the story broke and I am a North America Correspondent based here.
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#PrinceAndrew
says:
- he doesn’t party
- he doesn’t sweat
- he is careful about when he takes public pictures
- he doesn’t remember meeting or having a photo with
#VirginiaRoberts
#maitlis
#Newsnight
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VP Mike Pence has just unfollowed Donald Trump on twitter.
The violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now. Anyone involved must respect Law Enforcement officers and immediately leave the building.
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Very excited to be returning to the United States later this year 🇺🇸🥳
Taking up a new role in North America as one of our Washington Correspondents is
@NomiaIqbal
. 🇺🇸
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Behind every top presenter and correspondent, there is always a team of top producers.
#UnsungHeroes
#BBCpay
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More from the
@DNC
backed vans that are trolling
#DonaldTrump
They are driving past the hotel regularly.
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BBC EXCLUSIVE:
#Titan
“I never want to hear the words ‘we lost comms’ again.”
Christine
#Dawood
, wife of Shahzada and mum of Suleman, says she was on board the search + rescue.
She lost hope after 96 hrs and struggled to hide it from her daughter.
Coming up
#BBCNewsTen
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It’s the first time Trump has been in DC since he left the morning of Biden’s inauguration.
And since the televised Jan6th hearings - a committee says he was singularly responsible for the deadly riots and isn’t fit for office again.
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Mr Kuleba took risk to come here. His message was thank you
@SecBlinken
for support, but close sky over Ukr. Says he’s optimistic.
Blinken’s msg is still no as soldiers in sky could put
#NATO
alliance into direct confrontation with Russia leading to a full-fledged war.
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Remember this name: Shahira. Discovered by
@StormModels
- this smart bright 20-year-old is one of the first British catwalk models who wears a hijab.
#BBCNews
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Dedication! 🇺🇸 fans queuing for hours this morning in rain to get into bar.
They’re hoping the mens team get to quarter finals of the
#WorldCup2022
for the first time in two decades.
🇺🇸 🇳🇱 kicks off at 10am et.
Our
#USAvNED
updates will on
@BBCNews
📺 📻 📱
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Remember this picture when the far right or 'alt right' ever use the word 'Snowflake'
#Charlottesviille
These are literally young UVA students age 17-23 standing up to a sea of white supremacists and neo-Nazis surrounding them
#Charlottesville
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What these young boys have to endure is so terrifying. But officials say they’re mentally strong and will have two expert divers each guiding them through to survival 🙏
#ThailandCaveRescue
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Let’s go! It’s
#Election2020
🙌🏽
Team
#Florida
will be with you on
@BBCNews
and
@BBCWorld
tonight - from this critical swing state.
#BeforePicture
Super Producer:
@sam_granville
Super Cameraman: Ian Cartwright
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Heavily armed self-described 'patriots' turn up in Louisville where BLM protesters are marching for
#BreonnaTaylor
. 📷:
@Reuters
#KentuckyDerby
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So cool to win a
#UKARIAs18
bronze award for a special
@bbcasiannetwork
programme I presented - talking to young women 100 years since the women’s vote. Thank you
@MulberryTH
and to the brilliant super BBC team behind it.
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@_EmmaGH
This is astonishing work. Truly brave, important, world class journalism by Mstyslav Chernov and
@EMaloletka
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There are only a few protestors on either side outside hotel. It’s generally calm. But police have had to step in.
#Trump
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Role models matter and so I was ridiculously giddy about interviewing one of mine. Thanks for the fun chat
@MishalHusainBBC
😊 Congrats on your new book.
It’s full of top advice for women on making aspirations come to life. Out today!
#TheSkills
📻
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More than 100 yrs ago
@KamalaHarris
wouldn’t have had the right to vote.
As a Black woman with Indian heritage, she would’ve had no rights.
She’s now set to become the most powerful + influential woman in US political history.
Our report is on
#BBCNewsTen
#Election2020
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#Hijab
inspection story: It's unfortunate
@Ofstednews
keep refusing to give BBC Asian Network an interview about plans to question children. They instead gave us all contacts for campaigner Amina Lone which is bizarre. It's not Amina's job to speak for government policy. (1/2)
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Partial eclipse is coming 🤩
#TotalSolarEclipse
will be 13:40 local time. Go away clouds. Team Texas is ready and safely viewing ☀️
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Judgement on
#AsiaBibi
case worth a read. Judges use Islam itself to exonerate her, quoting Surahs, Hadiths and moments from life of Prophet.
Also includes poetry of Sir Muhammad Iqbal + Shakespeare.
No/little comeback for the mad extremists.
⬇️
…
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#PriyankaChopra
a proud feminist:
“Women are always told say this the right way, speak this way.”
@PriyankaChopra
to young girl: stop venting and embarassing yourself
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As a journalist, I am not against far right / extremists being given air time but presenters MUST CHALLENGE THEM ROBUSTLY. Seen some truly terrible sloppy work today.
#journorequest
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Trump allies want him to look to future and not the past.
He’s meant to use this policy speech to set a Republican agenda ahead of midterms.
But often his speeches end up being about the 2020 election - which Rep think are putting voters off.
Updates on
@BBCWorld
📺 📻
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Mitt Romney really can’t be bothered with fellow Rep George Santos who comes over to mingle. Didn’t mess about, seems to have said to him “you oughta be embarrassed.”
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Riot lining up outside
#CUNY
. Officer tell us says can’t say plan but “stay safe.” Protestors chanting “shame on you, who do you serve who do you protect.”
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GUILTY: El Shafee Elsheikh is convicted of his crimes as an Islamic State Group fighter.
The Londoner was part of a sadistic group ‘the ISIS Beatles’ that kidnapped and killed hostages in Syria from 2013.
Shocking videos of beheadings set a gruesome low in their propaganda.
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.
@BBCNewsbeat
road trip to meet
#YoungestCandidates
comes to an end! Today we filmed with
@Mhairi1921
#GE2015
http://t.co/jSSDiWICEi
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A source tells CBS news that Santos shot back “asshole.”
Mitt Romney really can’t be bothered with fellow Rep George Santos who comes over to mingle. Didn’t mess about, seems to have said to him “you oughta be embarrassed.”
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Highlighting some first class journalism from the BBC's
@alice_cuddy
and team during this war. Full of pain and humanity - every article is worth reading. (1/3)
1. The kibbutz attack captured by mothers' WhatsApp groups
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@BBCSteveR
Nobody has deserved this long overdue recognition more than you. Huge congratulations!
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Thank you to
@asianmediaaward
for my radio presenter of the year nomination. Lovely evening with my mum who thinks I have a proper job now. ☺️
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Meanwhile....President-Elect Joe Biden and the Democrats have taken back full control of Congress.
A final rebuke of Trump and his Republican Party.
Democrats win control of US Senate after two improbable wins in Georgia, making it easier for new president Joe Biden to advance agenda
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.
@Nigel_Farage
said if his side narrowly lost he'd demand second
#EUref
. Does that principle now apply for remain?
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Attitudes are changing in some faiths.
24 yo Sameer Poselay was convinced he’d take his secret to the grave
But his entire family support him and challenge those who say you can’t be gay + Muslim
Dad: “We can save our children’s lives”
#OutAndProudParentsDay
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Hundreds of residents in
#EastPalestine
#Ohio
are demanding answers after a train full of toxic chemicals derailed in their town.
They tell us it didn't help that the train company pulled out of tonight's town hall meeting.
@JoyceLiu66
@BernieDebusmann
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@radhikasanghani
@bbcasiannetwork
I still put a filter on us! 😊
#sideprofileselfie
👃🏽👃🏽👃🏽Listen back to our nosey chat, 1hr 20 mins in:
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Ten mins in and Donald Trump speech similar theme to his inauguration one: American Carnage.
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This perfectly highlights why using the term “BAME” is often misleading. Good on
@SophyRidgeSky
for her direct questioning on this.
#Ridge
"How many black people are in the current cabinet?"
"Well there's a whole series of people from a black and ethnic minority background" responds Matt Hancock.
#Ridge
Follow live analysis:
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Sec Blinken’s arrival is of course not low key - people are curious at this huge attention. One teenager holding her dogs asks me excitedly: “who is that? When I tell her she says: “I don’t know who he is. But is America here to help us get our homes back?”
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I also asked double-standards over impartiality? Given controversy over BBC Chairman Sharpe accused of facilitating a loan for Boris Johnson.
“I think as editor in chief of the BBC, I think one of our founding principles is impartiality, and that's what we’re delivering on.”
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A truly generous, caring colleague who never waivered in his support and advice. He was so much fun - my first time presenting on
@bbcworldservice
was alongside him and it was a real privilege. Really hard to accept he’s gone. RIP
#JulianKeane
❤️
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Great to see some brilliant musicians from
#SouthAfrica
on
@BBCNews
TV in the UK 🎧 🎶 🇿🇦
Looking at how young people are making their own music and bringing it to dance floors in Europe - without major record labels.
Catch
@DistructionB
+
@Euphonik
on
#BBCNewsTen
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The glorious Anoushka Shankar is here! We're talking about her first film soundtrack for the rare and beautiful Indian silent film Shiraz: A Romance of India.
@ShankarAnoushka
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Only the first two words are accurate.
#Election2020
#JoeBiden
He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!
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The reversal of the
#HarveyWeinstein
verdict has been described as “unjust”by his accusers. It was the foundational case on which
#metoo
was based on.
Update on
@BBCWorld
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@BillNeelyNBC
Yet NBC quoted the BBC and used a tweet in its online coverage.
It’s not even very high up in your top global stories online which hopefully in your powerful position as chief global corr you could rectify.
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If you watch one thing today - this is a painful but important piece about South-Asian
#racism
towards Black people.
Great work by
@siva_thasan
and
@newshound1337
👏🏽
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This is staggering. Afghanis holding onto a US military aircraft as it heads for the exit.
#Afghanistan
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Great to co-host a virtual
#iftar
, featuring Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
- who took questions from around the UK.
Watch back:
#RamadanAtHome
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Almost impossible to sum up the British cultural significance of
#JamalEdwards
. Here’s an interview he gave to
@BBCNews
few years back.
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Racism, homophobism, sexism, cultural pressures, disownment: some of the challenges facing gay Asian women. Loved talking to two brilliant women - Reeta from
@gaysians_uk
and Shelina from
@HidayahLGBT
. In the last part of show:
#LGBT
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Late into the night here, families continue to bring flowers to the school in
#Uvalde
.
White crosses mark the names of the murdered children and teachers.
Updates on
@BBCBreakfast
and
@BBCWorld
this morning
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🇨🇦 PM Justin Trudeau says
#QueenElizabeth
was head of state for almost half of Canada’s existence.
With his voice breaking he said:
“She was one of my favorite people in the world.”
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We are
#TotalSolarEclipse
ready here in Texas! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
Weather may be cloudy but our moods aren’t! We excitedly look ahead to today’s historic celestial phenomenon.
WATCH ->
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And hear
#Kamala
Harris herself on how to pronounce her name.
Kamala is an Indian name. (Her mother was born in
#Chennai
). As Kamala Harris says in her autobiography this is how you pronounce her name:
"My name is pronounced "Comma-la", like the punctuation mark”.
#KamalaHarris
.
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Early this morning, the Polish PM Rau said his country will have taken in 1 million refugees from Ukraine by the end of the wknd. He’s also worried about Russia one day targeting Poland.
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Always worth mentioning many British Asian people are not superstitious and medieval.
I know plenty of older (and younger people) born here and abroad, who believe in science and have happily taken the jab.
A lot of the disproportionate rates are down to poverty.
#COVID19
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Stephen Lawrence was from a strong two parent family unit. Didn’t stop him getting stabbed.
Rod Liddle’s weird obsession with Black people continues.
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So pleased! Our special programme marking 100 years since women got the vote, has been nominated for a big radio award
#UKARIAS18
☺️
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#100years
since some women got voting rights.
-What challenges do ethnic minority women face?
-Who holds them back?
-Meaning of feminism to the young?
-Where do men fit into this? Many also couldnt vote before 1918. Our special show on
@bbcasiannetwork
from
@MulberryTH
at 10am
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I asked Mr Blinken if West had considered energy sancts.
“How can the West defeat Putin in Ukraine when it also pays him $700m a day in oil,gas&coal?”
He said “nothing was off the table but currently there was no strategic interest in affecting global energy supplies.”
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The city slicker turned teacher:
@NCSPrincipal1
gave up his big salary to teach back in his home town of Newham. His school is now one of the best in the country. His story on the way.
@bbcasiannetwork
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He’s praised China an authoritarian country - saying America should be more like them when it comes to tackling drugs. Supports their “quick trials” and death penalty.
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Chatting to the wonderful
@farrah_Storr
, editor of
#Cosmopolitan
. We're talking about being a female ethnic in the business, why she got rid of naked men to show equality works both ways and why having children shouldn't define women. On
@bbcasiannetwork
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Seriously. Stop and watch this astonishing
@NBCNews
TV report. The last part is EVERYTHING.
#Trump
#DonaldTrump
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I asked Senator
#MittRomney
: if he’s too old should Biden and Trump be rerunning?
Romney said “ I think it’d be a great thing to get both Pres Biden and former Pres Trump to stand aside and let their respective parties pick someone in the next generation.”
#Gerontocracy
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Nearly half of young LGBT+ people facing homelessness are from religious backgrounds -
@aktcharity
Today is
#OutAndProudParentsDay
, and marks 5 yrs since Dr Nazim Mahmood took his own life after his family rejected him
Fiancé Matt Mahmood-Ogston continues to honour his legacy
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Russian filmmaker Vladimir Kara-Murza nearly died after two separate poisonings. He's recovering but says he won't stop speaking out against
#Putin
govt. We also discuss his film about politician, and friend,
#BorisNemtsov
who was murdered. On
@bbcworldservice
from 6am (UK).
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