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A new evening update bulletin, , launches on Friday 4 March to accommodate the large volumes of calls and social media traffic generated by the interactive news discussion show World Have your Say .

- the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's award-winning global interactive news discussion show - launched a weekly TV edition of the show on last month which now broadcasts every Friday at 15:00 GMT. The special World Have Your Say Extra bulletin, airing at 19:30GMT, will follow the main programme. Hosted by Ros Atkins, the bulletin will cover a round-up of the best audience online, email and telephone interactions.

Mark Sandell, Editor of World Have Your Say comments; β€œOver the past three weeks the audience reaction to discussions around the Middle East has been overwhelming – with callers from a diverse range of countries taking part in the debate. The range has allowed us to cover developments in the Middle East in a completely different way – letting audiences in the region and those in other parts of the world have their say on what is happening and how it's impacted on their lives. It gives us a truly global perspective on the events as they unfold. This special bulletin is a great way of accommodating the volume of interactions coming into the show and provides a forum for as many different viewpoints and opinions as possible.”

Since the television launch, the show has focused on developments in the Middle East , engaging audiences around the world in a range of talking points and discussions including: When should President Mubarak go? (4 Feb), What next after the fall of Mubarak (12 Feb), Unrest across the Middle East and North Africa (18 Feb) and What should the World do about Libya ? (25 Feb). In the past three weeks, the show has generated calls from a large volume of countries, peaking on 25 February with viewers from 49 countries taking part in the debate around Libya.

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About World Have Your Say:

Hosted on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's international news services – on radio ( ) and on TV ( ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News) - the show is a global conversation with the agenda set by everyone taking part. The show uses different technology to enable as many people as possible in different parts of the world to join the debate via online bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay, Twitter (@bbc_whys ), Facebook, telephone and on air.

Presented by Ros Atkins, the television show broadcasts weekly on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News, and daily on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service radio and gives audiences around the world the opportunity to take part in the big debates and offer opinions on the news agenda. The channel has already broadcast a number of successful one-off World Have you Say specials including the release of Ang San Su Kyi, the rescue of the Chilean miners, and special editions from South Africa during last year's World Cup.

World Have Your Say was first launched in 1995 on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service radio, and during the past five years has produced shows from all around the world including a shack in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa; an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Milles Collines hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where many were saved from the genocide; a factory in Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum in Mumbai, India; and a refugee camp in Calais, France, where Afghans were waiting for the chance to cross the English Channel to Britain. The programme was also the first to broadcast live from Robben Island, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela had been imprisoned, on the former president's 90th birthday. In 2008, the programme won gold at the 2008 Sony Radio Awards in the UK, in the Listener Participation category.

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ attracts a global audience of 241 million people to its international news services including ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News television channel.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News , the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News Ltd, a member of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's commercial group of companies. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, and reaches 304.6 million households and 1.8 million hotel rooms. The channel's content is also available on 87 cruise ships, 40 airlines, 39 mobile phone networks and a number of major online platforms including . For further information on how to receive ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World News, download schedules or find out more about the channel, visit .

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