BBC News launching Cut Through the Noise, as a new weekly news programme on Facebook Watch.

The BBC's BBC News division is launching a new weekly news programme, Cut Through the Noise, on Facebook Watch, it's first non-American news programme on the social media platform.

Cut Through the Noise will be done from BBC News' Washington bureau or somewhere else in the field and cover a different issue weekly.

Facebook Watch rolled out internationally in August, a year after it became available in the United States only.

"Social media is an important source of news and information for many Americans, so we are always looking for new ways of bringing our audiences high-quality, non-partisan news coverage they can trust from around the world," says Jim Egan, BBC Global News chief executive, in a statement.

Campbell Brown, head of global news partnerships for Facebook, says: "Earlier this year we made a commitment to show news that is trustworthy, informative, and local on Facebook."

"As a part of that commitment, we are creating a dedicated section within Watch for news shows produced exclusively for Facebook by news publishers, and they will receive marketing support in News Feed."

BBC World News adds a VICE News This Week slot to its weekend schedule for global viewers.

The BBC is adding news from VICE Media to its schedule for BBC News, with the programme VICE News This Week that will be broadcast on BBC World News on weekends from today.

Starting on 28 April, VICE News This Week will show a compilation of segments from VICE News Tonight that is broadcast in America on the Viceland channel, and will now be shown worldwide on BBC World News (DStv 400 / StarSat 256 / Cell C 501).

VICE News Tonight started in October 2016 and is produced by Vice Media for America's HBO channel in America. VICE's content and its TV channel are aimed at millennial viewers and specialise in visceral documentaries and programming.

VICE News This Week, a repackaged show of the daily show made for HBO, will be shown on BBC World News on Saturdays at 14:30 and 18:30 and on Sundays at 07:30 and 20:30 (South African time).

"I am delighted that we are partnering with VICE to bring VICE News This Week to our global audiences on BBC World News," says Jim Egan, the CEO of BBC Global News in a statement.

"Complementing our own award-winning international coverage, the program will give our viewers a unique perspective on issues in the United States and around the world."

Josh Tyrangiel, the executive vice president of  VICE News, says "We're chuffed - I think I used that right - to be partnering with BBC Global News to bring our Peabody and Emmy-winning journalism to hundreds of millions of homes around the globe. The BBC is the gold standard and VICE News is truly honoured to be part of its offering."

BBC World News turns 25 years old, marks its silver anniversary with a special silver on-screen look in the month of March.

BBC World News (DStv 400 / StarSat 256) is turning 25 years old this month and is marking its silver anniversary with a special on-screen look.

While major questions are being asked internally at the BBC over the future of BBC World News as a 24-hour TV news channel as part of a much broader and bigger radical restructuring of the British public broadcaster, the channel that started with just 12 journalists now has thousands of journalists, based in over 100 cities and studios across the world.

The channel originally launched with a half hour news bulletin known as World Service Television (WSTV) on 11 March 1991 when it replaced BBC TV Europe. From there the channel has grown to be available in 433 million TV households across the world.

In 1992 the channel became available in Africa for the first time. In 1995 WSTV relaunched as BBC World, before changing to BBC World News in 2008.

In 2013 BBC World News moved to its new newsroom alongside the World Service's radio broadcasts in 29 languages and the BBC's domestic news service in London. The building houses 3 000 journalists, production and operational staff from where the United Kingdom and global services are co-ordinated from one location.

"The world has changed dramatically for all of us in the past 25 years and so has the way we get news from the field to our viewers," says Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News Ltd.

"Our commitment to providing accurate, impartial news of the highest quality to international audiences is unwavering. We're proud that, in a world of great uncertainty and in a news industry which is every bit as volatile, BBC World News continues to grow and is the most trusted source of global television news available anywhere".

BBC World News says it now has 85 million viewers per week.

BREAKING. BBC World News launching a new studio next week with a new programming line-up and some new presenters.

BBC World News (TopTV 400 / DStv 400), the BBC's international 24-hour news channel, will unveil its dramatic new look next week when BBC World News will start broadcasting from its new studios in central London and shake-up its broadcasting schedule as well as introducing its new presenters.

The new BBC World News studio - Studio C as seen above and which viewers will see for the first time come Monday - will be much bigger; a massive circular and elliptical design with flowing lines, echoing the red and white BBC World News on-air logo.

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"This relaunch marks the biggest change for BBC World News in at least a decade," says Jim Egan, the COO of BBC Global News Ltd. "It is part of a sustained commitment by the BBC to build on our long history of delivering high quality international news."

From 14:00 (South African time) on Monday 14 January, BBC World News will start to broadcast from the new state-of-the-art high definition (HD) studios in the BBC's new London headquarters, the redeveloped Broadcasting House.

BBC World News is the first English language TV channel to go live from the new building.

BBC World News will introduce the new BBC World News presenters Yalda Hakim as well as the new presenter Jon Sopel who is now going to be anchoring the brand-new weekday BBC World News international news programme entitled Global with Jon Sopel at 17:00 (South African time).

"BBC World News is kicking off the new year with an entirely new look and feel," says Richard Porter, controller of English for BBC Global News.

"From virtual reality capability to full HD production, new presenters and a programming line-up that goes from strength to strength, BBC World News audiences will have access to not only the best, most dynamic journalism in the world, but also the latest technology to enhance storytelling and to bring viewers inside the stories that shape our world," says Richard Porter.

Here is BBC World News's brand-new programming line-up which will kick in from next Monday 14 January with South African times:

Newsday (02:00, 03:00, 01:00)
HARDTalk with Stephen Sackur (06:30, 11:30, 16:30, 23:30)
GMT with George Alagiah (14:00)
Impact with Mishal Husain (15:00)
Global with Jon Sopel (17:00)
BBC Focus on Africa (19:30)
World News Today with Zeinab Badawi (21:00)
Business Edition with Tanya Beckett (23:00)
BBC World News America (01:30)