BBC WORLD NEWS ASKS YOU TO JOIN TO CELEBRATE ONE YEAR TO THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS

2012 is set to be an amazing year in Britain and the BBC is best placed to share the experience with a global audience. Over the next year the BBC will have coverage which spans sport, culture and Britain, showcasing our rich sporting heritage and world-renowned journalism.

New programming opportunities include:

• World Olympic Dreams: follows the lives of 26 athletes as they journey towards the Olympics in London
• Britain Direct: a month of programming and online reports exploring the many faces of the host country
• Destination London: a new weekend show on BBC World News sharing the results and interviews from all the major sports competitions and events leading up to the London Olympics
• Sporting Witness: A vignette series dedicated to sporting history as told by the people who lived through it, offering a uniquely personal perspective about their experience

The coverage starts today with a one year to go celebration at 7pm WAT on BBC World News, live from Trafalgar Square.


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BBC World News America Shortlisted for Four Emmy Nominations.

BBC World News America has scored four nominations in the 32nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

Richard Porter, Acting Controller of English, BBC Global News says: "We're extremely honored once again to be nominated in the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. It is a tribute to the courageous work of our brilliant correspondents, and to the skills of the World News America production team. The BBC has a deep commitment to foreign news reporting, and we're delighted to receive this recognition."

The program received two nominations in the category for Outstanding Continuing Coverage Of A News Story In A Regularly Scheduled Newscast and two nominations in the category for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.

Outstanding Continuing Coverage Of A News Story In A Regularly Scheduled Newscast

Haiti 's Earthquake - Amidst the global media coverage of the Haiti earthquake, World News America anchor Matt Frei and BBC correspondent Matthew Price delivered a series of reports on the humanitarian crisis and the struggle facing those left without shelter, food or water.

Victims of the Flood: Pakistan in Need - The BBC's correspondent Orla Guerin traveled to some of the worst affected and most remote areas in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. In four special reports, she reported on the humanitarian crisis and the challenges facing the country in the aftermath of this disaster.

Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

Inside the North Korean Bubble - BBC Correspondent, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, received extremely rare access to one of the world's greatest enigmas – North Korea . Even while taking the “model tour,” Lloyd-Robert was able to offer an insight into everyday life.

The Harsh Lives of Kabul 's Street Children - Peabody Award-winning BBC correspondent, Lyse Doucet, reported from some of the wealthiest of streets in the Afghan capital of Kabul and met some of the children trying to make a living on the streets.

BBC World News America has won an Emmy® Award in 2009 for Business and Financial Reporting for Return to White Horse Village , which looked at the impact of urbanization on a Chinese farming village.

BBC World News America's other prestigious awards include three Peabodys, one of which commended the newscast for overall excellence with the judges in 2009 describing the program as, “A nightly newscast like none the United States has ever had, it places our actions and concerns in a global context.”

BBC World News America broadcasts live Monday - Friday on BBC World News.


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BBC to Mount Major Coverage of Nigeria Elections on BBC World News and BBC World Service

The BBC's international news services – BBC World Service, BBC World News television and bbc.com/news – have stepped up their operations to cover the national elections in Nigeria next month.

BBC World Service is extending regular programming and launching unique online and mobile content to deliver a comprehensive reportage and in-depth analysis of the key vote in Africa's most populous nation.

BBC journalists, who are also household names in the region, will be in key locations across Nigeria. Jamilah Tangaza in Abuja, Mansur Liman in Kano, Bilkisu Labaran and Bola Mosuro in Lagos and Peter Okwoche in Port Harcourt will bring the audiences the latest on the campaigns, votes and moods in the streets.

BBC World News television channel will be covering voting and election results from the north and south of Nigeria with presenter Komla Dumor and reports from correspondents Andrew Harding, Caroline Duffield and Rob Walker.

Special content on bbc.com/africa will include the latest elections news, profiles of main candidates, maps showing some of Nigeria's many divisions, analysis and views from Nigerian voters.

BBC Hausa has initiated a translation of the most important sections of the Nigerian Electoral Law from English into Hausa, to make it accessible to Hausa-speaking public. This content will be published on the elections index on bbchausa.com – along with profiles of the main candidates, political parties, key dates and deadlines, major issues etc.

The website will also profile first-time voters who will say why they will vote in the elections and how they feel about the process. Two-minute audio news updates and live text updates on bbchausa.com/mobile will offer the latest on elections as they happen in different parts of Nigeria and on the results as they begin to come in.

Head of BBC Hausa Jamilah Tangaza says: "These elections belong to the kind of events that bring to the fore our relationship with our audiences. It is not just us informing them, but also them being an integral part of our output, telling us what they want to discuss, responding to the events unfolding around them and using us as platform for debate."

In the run-up to the elections, Assignment on BBC World Service will be looking at the aftermath of ethnic and religious violence in Jos, in Plateau state, while BBC World News television will be doing a special investigation on vote-rigging allegations and corruption in Nigeria.

On the three election Saturdays – National Assembly Elections on 2 April, Presidential Elections on 9 April and Governorship and State House of Assembly Elections on 16 April – the BBC's English-language programmes for Africa will broadcast live from different regions of Nigeria.

On these days, BBC Hausa will extend its two daily live radio transmissions from 30 minutes to one hour.

The BBC's leading English-language programmes for Africa, Focus On Africa, Network Africa and Africa Have Your Say will be reporting from across Nigeria, talking about the issues that matter most to the Nigerian electorate. An edition of Focus On Africa dedicated to Nigerian elections will be broadcast to the BBC's global audiences.

Solomon Mugera, Editor, BBC Africa Region, says: "The deployment of a strong BBC team with journalists reporting for our English, Hausa, French and Swahili programmes as well as BBC World News television demonstrates our commitment to report and analyse these very crucial Nigerian elections – for the millions of listeners and viewers in Nigeria, the rest of Africa and the wider international community."


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Programming note: BBC's World Have Your Say becomes a weekly show on BBC World News.

World Have Your Say, the BBC's popular global radio show is becoming a weekly TV show from tomorrow and will henceforth be broadcast on BBC World News (HiTV Channel 2 / DStv 400/StarTimes) on Fridays at 4pm.

Viewers can interact with World Have Your Say via bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay, Twitter at @bbc_whys, through Facebook (World Have Your Say), telephone and on air. World Have Your Say is presented by Ros Atkins. BBC World News has already broadcast a number of successful one-off World Have Your Say TV specials.

''World Have Your Say is a programme that brings something quite unique to BBC World News,'' says Ros Atkins. ''We're free to have free-flowing discussions around the issues that people around the world are really engaging with. And most importantly of all, those discussions are always open to whoever is watching.''

BBC: Home of the British Royal Wedding (100 Days to go).

BBC World News is the only place to fully experience this truly global event. As well as full, uninterrupted coverage on the day, we will also give unique insight into the arrangements in the run up to the wedding as well as asking what it all means for a modern British monarchy.