World News Today

World News Today
World News Today with Zeinab Badawi
Created by	BBC World News
Presented by	Philippa Thomas Kasia Madera Karin Giannone Alice Baxter Alpa Patel
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Location(s)	Studio C, Broadcasting House, London
Running time	60 minutes (Mon–Thu) 1x60 & 1x30 minutes (Fri) 33 minutes (Saturday-Sunday) 25 minutes (BBC Four)
Release
Original network	BBC World News BBC Four BBC Four HD (2013-) BBC News Channel BBC News Channel HD
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	31 May 2006 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	The World / BBC News at Nine
Related shows	BBC World News BBC World News America Newsday GMT Impact Global Focus on Africa, Outside Source, BBC Breakfast, BBC News at One, BBC News at Five, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Nine, BBC Weekend News
External links
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World News Today is a current affairs news programme, produced by BBC News, presented by Philippa Thomas, Kasia Madera, Alice Baxter, Alpa Patel and Karin Giannone. It was originally conceived as a morning television show aimed at American audiences, hosted by George Alagiah, but later expanded to six editions a day aimed at different markets. There is now one daily edition only, aimed as an evening news programme for the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa part-simulcast on BBC Four, BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

The programme originally used the same graphics and music as BBC World, though when The World on BBC Four was renamed World News Today, all editions were given a separate set of graphics and music with three being simulcast in the UK (03:00, 12:00, 19:00). Since April 2008 the standard title sequence used by the BBC's English Regions has been used, with some graphical alterations and with international images included. The first 30 mins of each broadcast is still simulcast on BBC Four.

As part of a channel refresh on BBC World News, five editions of World News Today were replaced on 1 February 2010 with GMT, Impact Asia now Impact, The Hub (later replaced with Global in 2013), Business Edition (later replaced by Outside Source and World News Today but returned replacing an edition of World News Today under the name Business Live), and a standard edition of BBC World News (replaced by Outside Source in 2014).

On 5 June 2015, a new edition was launched on the BBC News Channel & BBC World News at 21:00 BST (summer) or GMT (winter) on Friday–Sunday. Half an hour was dropped in November for the return of Business Edition. This replaced the BBC News at Nine and a standard edition of BBC World News on weekends.