Section: BBC (The United Kingdom)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London The BBC is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.
The BBC is a corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen by the BBC Trust ( formed on 1 January 2007). Trustees are appointed by the British monarch on advice of government ministers.
BBC has an office in Kyiv since 1993.
Ukraine seizes key town near Donetsk
Ukraine says it has seized the town of Avdiivka, near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, amid intense fighting in the area around the downed MH17 flight. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Footage shows battle for Donetsk
The BBC’s Jonathan Beale says artillery fire from the Ukraine military seems to be intensifying in Donetsk. …read more Source:...
EU widens sanctions against Russia
The EU adopts new economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, going beyond asset freezes and travel bans, sources say. …read more Source:...
Crowdfunding in Ukraine’s DIY war
How Ukrainians are crowdfunding war effort …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Trying to bring MH17 victims home
A team of Dutch forensic investigators will again try to access the Malaysia Airlines wreckage site in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine conflict: EU squeezes Russia
EU braces for economic pain with further sanctions …read more Source:...
EU set to widen Russia sanctions
The European Union is set to back new sanctions against Russia, targeting its finance, energy and defence sectors over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
US: Russia ‘violated missile treaty’
Russia has violated an arms treaty by testing a nuclear cruise missile, the US says, as Barack Obama discusses sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Are Ukraine’s rebels fighting a 1920s war?
Are Ukraine’s 2014 rebels fighting a war from the 1920s? …read more Source:...
MH17 jet ‘downed by shrapnel’
Security officials in Ukraine say the Malaysia Airlines jet downed in eastern Ukraine suffered an explosive loss of pressure caused by missile shrapnel. …read more Source:...
