BBC World Service The BBC is the world's most trusted international news broadcaster – committed to providing accurate, impartial, and independent news to audiences across the UK and around the world.

Funding through the TV licence It covers you for: All TV channels, like BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Dave and international channels. Pay TV services, like Sky, Virgin Media and BT. Live TV on streaming services, like YouTube and Amazon Prime Video.

Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008 and again to BBC News (International) on 3 April 2023 after its consolidation with the domestic BBC News Channel.

TV news presenter Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC on "medical advice", the corporation has said. The broadcaster has been off air since last July following newspaper reports claiming he paid a young person for sexually explicit images.