The first half-hour of this programme could be seen in the UK on BBC 4 or BBC News Channel on weekends. The US President was again on Twitter in power after his account was taken down for eleven minutes yesterday. BBC World’s on-air design was modified considerably on three April 2000, bringing it closer to the look of its sister channel in the UK which was then often called BBC Information 24, the on-air look of which had been redesigned in 1999.

The channel’s present identify -BBC World News- was launched on 21 April 2008 as part of a £550,000 … Read the rest