Courtney Bembridge
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What happened on June 24 at the Spain-Morocco border? We've spent months investigating, bringing fresh evidence to light.
#AfricaEye
#NothingStaysHiddenForever
Honoured to work with
@BenDoBrown
@SVanhooymissen
@saracreta
@karimtl
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Two minutes from us on claims that arson is a major part of Australia's bushfires. In short, they're not. Here we look at the spread of disinformation online using hashtags like
#ArsonEmergency
I’ve had a number of messages saying that the media is ignoring arson as a major cause of the Australia bushfire crisis. Well, we looked at it today. Arson is not a major part of why these fires are so widespread and so severe. Here’s why. Produced
@courtbembridge
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"The marsupial then stacks the cubes - the higher the better so as to communicate with and attract other wombats." What a way to say g'day... Wombats poo in cubes:
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My family come from villages in northern Greece but speak a Slavic language now known as Macedonian. They say they’re Macedonians from Greece.
@cskarelli
& I went to visit my grandmother’s sister - who still lives in the region. Full documentary on
@BBCWorld
@BBCNews
this weekend
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@adnanelbursh
@Rushdibbc
There are, of course, many more human stories from
#Gaza
+
#Israel
being told by
@BowenBBC
@bbclysedoucet
@annaefoster
@tombateman
@LucyWilliamson
@sallynabil
@Beaking_News
& many others as part of the BBC's round-the-clock coverage. You can see part of Nick's latest report here:
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@danielsilas
We have just received a response from the Human Rights Defenders Coalition - Malawi (
@hrdcmw
)
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*New
#bushfires
video* PM Scott Morrison told
@abcnews
even if
#Australia
shut all its coal power stations, the impact on climate change would be minimal because of China. But... Australia emits far more per person than China. And what about emissions from exports?
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Back on deck making these videos for
@BBCOS
&
@BBCRosAtkins
- latest featuring
@TurnbullMalcolm
&
@SkyNewsAust
*New OS video* Scott Morrison says Australia is doing its bit on climate change. Not so says his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull on
@BBCNewsnight
. And he attacks the media. Meanwhile Sky News Australia’s Chris Kenny says new policies won’t reduce bushfire risk. Where shall I start?
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The unprecedented fires in Australia are leading international news bulletins -
@BBCOS
has been looking closely at the fires & the climate debate
@BBCRosAtkins
#AustraliaFires
#AustraliaBurning
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VIDEO: Aboriginal medical graduate to take skills back to remote home in WA
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The
#FourSeasonsTotalLandscaping
saga in under four minutes - produced by me for
#bbcos
At 11.24am EST on Saturday morning, CNN projected a Biden victory, Donald Trump played golf and the Trump campaign set up a press conference in a gardening firm's yard by an adult bookstore and a crematorium. This is
#FourSeasonsTotalLandscaping
from start to finish.
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We're all in limbo until the results are out later today... Mark McGowan's children taking it literally
#wavotes
@abcnewsPerth
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More coverage of Australia’s bushfire crisis on
@BBCOS
@BBCRosAtkins
#AustraliaFires
#AustraliaBurning
@BBCWorld
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Latest
#AustralianFires
video with
@BBCNuala
on the screen -
@RedCrossAU
refutes claims it’s drip-feeding A$115m in donations for fire victims
@BBCOS
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Brazil is mourning the loss of one of its most popular singers - 26-year-old Marília Mendonça. She was killed in a plane crash on her way to a concert, along with her uncle, producer and two pilots.
@BBCWorld
@RichPreston
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Scott Morrison has cut a holiday short to return to Australia amid a worsening bushfire crisis & extreme heat - but as we explained on
@BBCWorld
@BBCOS
- it’s not all about the holiday
@BBCRosAtkins
#AustraliaFires
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A second cyclone has hit Madagascar in as many weeks. Cyclone Batsirai made landfall late on Saturday, causing widespread flooding & the threat of landslides. Whole villages are reported to have been destroyed. Report for
@BBCWorld
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Signing off from
@abcnewsPerth
for now, loved every minute of it & these are 3 big reasons why
@charlottehamlyn
@jordospeak
@aocreporting
👋🏼
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I grew up surrounded by the Macedonian language - but didn't speak enough to interview my great aunt & she wasn't she confident in English. Forever grateful to
@cskarelli
for live translating her story for me - we were both in tears during these scenes. Full doco on BBC iPlayer.
My family come from villages in northern Greece but speak a Slavic language now known as Macedonian. They say they’re Macedonians from Greece.
@cskarelli
& I went to visit my grandmother’s sister - who still lives in the region. Full documentary on
@BBCWorld
@BBCNews
this weekend
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I would’ve been chatting to
@Russell_Woolf
on the wireless this morning & can’t believe I won’t hear that hearty laugh again. The man with a huge heart & even bigger hugs. He refused to take anything seriously & for that we adored him. All my love to his family & my ABC family ♥️
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Last year, 300 schoolgirls were abducted in north-western Nigeria. The kidnappers have never spoken to the media - until now.
#BBCAfricaEye
tracked down the bandits responsible & met the victims of the escalating violence in Zamfara state.
@BBCAfrica
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Australia is one of the world's Covid-19 success stories, with less than 1000 deaths. Borders closed last March - & they've stayed shut. It's undoubtedly saved many lives, but it's also had devastating consequences. Speaking to
@VFritzNews
about
@James_Turbitt
's case on
@BBCWorld
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@danielsilas
@hrdcmw
The Malawi Police Service has launched an investigation into the claims raised in the BBC report. “We are law enforcers & we are supposed to take to task any person who is found to be in conflict with the law so we will do our normal duty in this case.” - Harry Mwanza, Spokesman
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As Scott Morrison warns of “importing” divisions,
@yassmin_a
reminds us “Australia has never formally acknowledged its racist and genocidal history” - A brilliant article on why
#GeorgeFloyd
anger is resonating elsewhere
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Sea Shepherd claim to have caught Japanese whalers with a dead protected minke whale in Australian waters
@abcnewsPerth
@seashepherd
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“We're on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying” Bowie said of the internet in 1999 - so where are we now?
Is facebook too powerful? We've looked at this through the prism of the coup in Myanmar, the (temporary) news ban in Australia and the storming of the Capitol. Produced
@courtbembridge
@Henry_Belot
@clarelcasey1
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Police take part in Perth smoking ceremony for Elijah, Aboriginal elder: "We need to stand together in solidarity"
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Latest video from us - this time, on Emmanuel Macron’s Covid-19 crisis.
France is heading into a third national lockdown. We've looked at the factors that led France to this moment in the pandemic - and the role President Macron's leadership has played. Produced
@courtbembridge
@Henry_Belot
@mhosseini01
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for a BBC award for this segment on
#Coronavirus
from January - at this point, there were just 132 known deaths, cases had been reported in 17 countries & it was novelty to see deserted streets & queues for face masks.
#bbcos
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In a turbulent world, Canada has recently stood out as an island of political calm. Not anymore. Justin Trudeau is embroiled in a corruption scandal -
@MercedesGlobal
looks at the implications on
@BBCWorld
#Beyond100Days
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Australia’s devastating fires & extreme heat have reignited the debate around climate change & whether the nation is doing enough -
@latikambourke
explains the country’s attitudes towards climate change for a global audience on
@BBCWorld
@BBCOS
with
@BBCRosAtkins
#AustraliaBurns
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Thrilled to have this giant of Australian media watching
@BBCOS
@BBCRosAtkins
. The level of Aus media coverage seems to be a raw nerve (besides
@abcnews
&
@GuardianAus
) - please keep sending us aspects of this story you’re interested in & we’ll try to explore it.
#AustraliaFires
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Josh Warneke's mother Ingrid Bishop has welcomed Gene Gibson's acquittal, says she expects her son's murder case to be reopened
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Woylies introduced to feral-free area in WA bush for most ambitious conservation effort yet
http://t.co/7TnaEb5FtL
http://t.co/Ja20Dzk6aD
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With thanks to
@Timothyjgraham
as quoted in
@GuardianAus
- segment informed by stellar reporting from The Guardian &
@abcnews
on this issue.
I’ve had a number of messages saying that the media is ignoring arson as a major cause of the Australia bushfire crisis. Well, we looked at it today. Arson is not a major part of why these fires are so widespread and so severe. Here’s why. Produced
@courtbembridge
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Lots of discussion recently about the dangers of AI for spreading misinformation - but we wanted to dig a bit deeper into some of the other solutions & problems it poses.
@BBCWorld
@LucyHockingsBBC
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Two choppers - the one carrying the President & a decoy - just landed at Buckingham Palace. He’ll take “the beast” Cadillac to a roundtable with business leaders and Prime Minister May at St James’s Palace
@BBCWorld
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All of our
#australianbushfires
coverage in one place👇🏼 - huge interest in this story from abroad, human & environmental toll is devastating, but there’s also genuine head-scratching at reluctance to act on climate change from one of the places impacts are being most felt.
@BBCOS
1/ THREAD ON OUR BUSHFIRES VIDEOS. It was clear in December that the bushfires in Australia weren’t only a profound human & environmental crisis – they also highlighted the tensions between politics, business, the media and science within the broader issue of climate change.
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All this week, I've been pulling together detailed coverage of Australia's bushfire crisis, record-breaking heat & the climate change debate for
@BBCOS
- watch part of our coverage via the link below.
@BBCRosAtkins
@BBCWorld
This BBC report about Morrison, the fires and climate change in Australia is like nothing I've seen the Australian media cover.
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Gene Gibson will walk free later today. It was a unanimous decision from Court of Appeal, reasons to be published later
@abcnewsPerth
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The Australian government says it was 'blindsided' by a recommendation to put Great Barrier Reef on 'in danger' world heritage list but scientists say warning signs have been there for years. Speaking to
@bbcdavideades
for
@BBCWorld
News & yes I accidentally dressed as the reef.
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For almost three decades, one word has stood between two nations: Macedonia.
@cskarelli
and I traveled to Greece and North Macedonia to find out why. Documentary airing on
@BBCWorld
and
@BBCNews
this weekend.
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Dogged enthusiasm from Labor ranks in Colin Barnett's seat of Cottesloe
#wavotes
@abcnewsperth
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Working with BBC Verify to piece together how the deadly incident in Nottingham unfolded this morning - it's very much a live investigation & police say they're keeping an 'open mind' - full coverage on the
@BBCNews
website.
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There’s a joke in here about the media circus - just don’t mention clowns...
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@Lisa_Wilkinson
The Simpsons image isn't real... someone photoshopped it. The one of the right, sadly, is.
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A year after we started regularly putting
@BBCOS
segments on social media, we now have a home on BBC iPlayer too. Very proud to be leading this project with a small but insanely dedicated team. 10 mins of
@BBCRosAtkins
available every Friday on
@BBCiPlayer
& BBC News YouTube.
JUST LAUNCHED:
@BBCRosAtkins
brings his popular style of in-depth news analysis and snappy explainers to
@BBCiPlayer
,
@BBCSounds
and
@bbcworldservice
in a new series.
New episode on iPlayer out now
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Record number of Indigenous medical students to graduate from University of WA
#perthnews
#australiawide
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Thrilled to see the bushfire videos I made for
#BBCOS
with
@BBCRosAtkins
commended for “coverage with diverse angles & perspective” at the
@theaibstv
awards - & a big congrats to CNN for their win!
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Extraordinary pictures of a volcano erupting on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma for the first time in 50 years. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has postponed a diplomatic trip to go to the scene, with fears many homes have been lost.
@BBCWorld
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A
#BBCAfricaEye
investigation not to be missed… A synthetic drug that’s proved deadly around the world has swept across Sierra Leone in recent months, with devastating consequences.
🇸🇱 Kush: Into the Mad World
The new investigation from
#BBCAfricaEye
, coming Monday 7th February.
📽️ Subscribe to our YouTube channel now so you don’t miss it:
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Brought to life by the unstoppable Antipodean
@jamesransley
for
@BBCOS
Remember Scott Morrison’s ‘whatever we do with our emissions doesn’t matter because of China’ argument? We can discuss its merits but here are the stats on how China emits an awful lot. And here’s Sir David Attenborough on why that’s a problem and a route to a solution.
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Latest clip from us - the A to Z of AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca again. Days after some EU members suspended it, now it’s cleared for use again. We’ve looked at how a vaccine deemed safe by UK, Europe’s regulator and WHO, has ended up being so controversial. Produced
@courtbembridge
@Henry_Belot
@DJHardman
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Dozens attend peaceful protest in
#Perth
over death of 14yo
#Kalgoorlie
boy Elijah Doughty
@abcnewsPerth
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Hundreds gather for candlelight vigil in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for 14yo boy killed on Monday, family & friends singing
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What trade war? Take a cold shower says
@D_LittleproudMP
. Quick update on Australia / China tensions featuring
@KathSully
&
@edwardrjohnson
for
@BBCOS
@BabitaTV
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#BBCAfricaEye
meets the migrants who risk everything to go deep underground to try to make a living in South Africa’s disused gold mines.
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"It is with sadness that WA Police confirm that the 17 year old teenage girl attacked by a shark has died from her injuries."
@abcnewsPerth
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GRADUATION TIME: Record number of Indigenous doctors graduating from UWA today
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Watch our latest video here if you’re in the UK - a in-depth look at what we want the royal family to be in the 21st century.
Our weekly
@BBCiPlayer
report is out: on Harry and Meghan, a missed opportunity for the Royal Family and the longer-term issues this institution is still trying to resolve. Produced
@courtbembridge
@Henry_Belot
@briony_sowden
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"Out of this world, it was just beautiful & it's Western Australia, you don't get that often." Rare snow on WA peak:
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@eldridge_wa
Richard, can you please get in touch with ABC News to clarify how your views have changed? courtney.bembridge
@abc
.net.au
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The
@WHO
says the Covid-19 pandemic has also brought a massive ‘infodemic’ – an over-abundance of information – some accurate, some not.
@LewisVaughan9
&
@mariannaspring
sort fact from fiction
@BBCOS
@BBCWorld
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"Is it bluff in the buff or get buff on the bluff?" - Locals' response to snowfall on Bluff Knoll in keeping with tradition.
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Why Australian women are saying 'enough is enough' - brilliant summary from
@Shaimaakhalil
#auspol
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The
#WhereIsPengShuai
controversy is not going away, despite China's best efforts. Videos tweeted by Chinese state-run media have done little to reassure the international community about her safety, after she made allegations against a former Chinese political leader.
@BBCWorld
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Is criticism of the UK response to Sudan fair? A brief look at the facts & figures of the evacuation operations with
@CFraserBBC
@BBCNews
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Police Commissioner plans to sit down with Gene Gibson face to face to apologise for police role in his wrongful conviction
@abcnewsPerth
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Australians are asking
#WhereTheBloodyHellAreYou
of the PM who is reportedly on holiday as bushfires continue to rage across the country
@BBCWorld
@BBCRosAtkins
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Update from
#Italy
on
#CoronavirusPandemic
featuring deserted streets, creative kids in northern Italy,
@simakotecha
in Rome,
@marklowen
interviewing
@luigidimaio
& a Milan doctor highlighting the strain on health sector
@PhilippaBBC
@BBCWorld
@BBCOS
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Boris Johnson straining to announce his resignation above the sound of someone singing Bye Bye (Baby) Boris & the Benny Hill Theme is a close second to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping carpark...
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Ben Cousins jailed for 12 mths for agg. stalking, drug & driving offenses, magistrate refused suspended sentence request
@abcnewsPerth
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Another video from today while it's still free to be here... side by side with
@Katie_Silver
just like old times, bringing the extended vowel sounds to
@BBCWorld
- balanced out by the dulcet tones of
@LukwesaBurak
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River threatening to burst its banks near Seabrook - north east of Perth -but locals aren't worried, say they're going to have a barbie 🌭
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How good are mums.
One of our
@BBCIndia
journalists from the Delhi bureau,
@ArunodayM
, has continued reporting live from home thanks to the help of a very important person...
#BBCWFH
#workingfromhome
#Covid19
#India
🇮🇳
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“Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson... lightning was predominantly responsible”
@abcnews
takes on
#ArsonEmergency
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Huge news for West Australians - after two years of missing family, friends, funerals, weddings, big birthdays & babies, the hard border is finally coming down. Now, when are you all coming to visit me in London??
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Locals in
#Northam
say they've never seen Avon River this high in 30 yrs, rain eased but levels to rise further tonight
@abcnewsperth
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The price of our tea:
#BBCAfricaEye
uncovered widespread sexual exploitation on Kenyan tea farms owned for decades by British companies - watch the shocking undercover footage on
@BBCWorld
with
@BBCYaldaHakim
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"Today we see openly gay men in every aspect of Australian life, except on the sporting field." So proud of my boy
@CorbinMiddlemas
for baring his soul on this one
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NO JUSTICE: Family of
#MsDhu
say the coroner's findings don't bring them any comfort, say no one has been held accountable
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Thousands of foreign companies are yet to be fined for breaking a new UK transparency law. The BBC’s Data Journalism team (
@nassos_
,
@HarrietAgerholm
+
@willdahlgreen
) found fines worth up to £1bn have not yet been imposed - including firms with links to Russian oligarchs.
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The latest from us on
@BBCOS
- thanks to
@albericie
for exhuming these examples in her recent thread
#AustralianWildFires
#Australia
More on the
#bushfires
. Australia’s PM Scott Morrison insists his government and party are serious about climate change and reducing emissions. But I’ve been struggling to square that what some of his Liberal Party colleagues say. See what you think.
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SMILE & WAVE: Carnegie CEO Michael Ottaviano at the site of Australia's first ever wave energy farm
@abcnewsPerth
http://t.co/Yvctndqvb8
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If I'm not being asked about cheating cricketers, it's shark attacks. Thanks to
@GianDePoloni
for giving the world more reasons to be scared of my home state on
@BBCWorld
- mixed reactions from surfers after championship comp cancelled over shark fears.
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“Go back 18 months - Ghislaine Maxwell was far from a household name. Now she’s one the most popular news searches in the world. And there are many questions being asked - from how to say her name, to more important ones about she fits into Epstein’s story.” Our latest video:
After her arrest last week, Ghislaine Maxwell's name was one of the top news search terms in the world. Everyone has questions about how she fits into the Jeffrey Epstein story. We've looked at them. Produced
@courtbembridge
@aishadoherty
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70 years ago, Denmark conducted what it called a social experiment - taking 22 Inuit children away from their families in Greenland to become 'more Danish'. The survivors, now in their 70s, are seeking compensation, saying they lost their families & sense of belonging.
@BBCWorld
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Give this man an order of Australia.
What if I told you that you could add crisp, golden cheese to a sausage-in-bread just by frying a slice of ordinary tasty cheese directly on a barbecue and putting a slice of bread on top of it?
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Brought a slice of home to
@BBCOS
with
@BBCRosAtkins
last night on the
#AuPairAffair
. Interesting to look at the nation from afar - people can't believe the Australian Immigration Minister holds such power.
@BBCWorld
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Labor's Matt Keogh about to go live on
@ABCNews24
after victory in new WA seat of Burt
#ausvotes
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Latest from us attempting to answer the question on everyone’s minds - when will we get the vaccine??
If you’re wondering when you may get access to one of the
#COVID19
vaccines, here’s one of our short videos on the factors that will decide that. And why many of us will wait some time. Produced
@CourtBembridge
@DJHardman
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The race that stops the nation, the man that stops at nothing to deliver the sport news.
@abcgrandstand
's
@CorbinMiddlemas
giving
@BBCWorld
an update from Flemington.
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