BBC World News

Weekdays at 6:30 pm

BBC World News brings PBS audiences unprecedented news coverage with a truly global perspective and gives insight into how world events are having an impact on America, and how major U.S. stories are having an impact on the world. This fast-paced 30-minute newscast is produced out of the new state-of-the art London studio and draws from BBC’s unrivaled global news-gathering resource of 2,000 journalists and 70 international news-gathering bureaus to provide viewers the stories behind breaking news events.

The BBC’s Mike Embley anchors the show from London, with Philippa Thomas, an experienced BBC foreign journalist, contributing daily news from the BBC’s Washington Headquarters. Mike Embley has many years of experience reporting news for the BBC and is known as one of the organization’s most determined, informed and unflappable anchors.

“Producing a program which we know will be going into so many American homes each day is a great responsibility, but an exciting challenge,” said Richard Porter, Head of News at BBC World News. “We're honored to be able to take on the task of bringing the world to America, and placing events in America within their global context.”