BBC News Special - Season 9 / Year 2023

Season 9 / Year 2023

Episodes

Afghanistan
As the Taliban decrees that women should stay at home, and withdraw completely from public life, we hear from some of them about the new restrictions. Presented by Yalda Hakim from Kabul.

President Biden: State of the Union Address
Live coverage of President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech to the US Congress. Presented by Laura Trevelyan in Washington.

Boris Johnson: 'Partygate' Committee
Live BBC News special coverage of a parliamentary committee evidence session looking at former UK prime minister Boris Johnson's conduct during the coronavirus pandemic, including the partygate scandal.

The SNP Leadership Result
Martin Geissler with live coverage of the result from the SNP Leadership race with full reaction and analysis.

Elections 2023
Ongoing coverage of local elections in England and Northern Ireland.

North Korea: The Insiders
For more than three years, North Korea has sealed its borders. People are banned from leaving or entering the country. Almost every foreigner who was inside has packed up and left. The world's most secretive and tyrannical state is now an information black hole. For months, three people inside North Korea have risked their lives to tell the BBC what is happening. What they reveal is shocking. Years of hard labour for those found watching foreign films and TV programmes, and execution for the ones who try to escape. Jean Mackenzie, the BBC's correspondent in South Korea, asks: is this a new dark age for North Korea?

By-Election Results
Jo Coburn presents live coverage and analysis of three parliamentary by-elections as Rishi Sunak's Conservatives defend their Westminster seats in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Selby and Ainsty, and Somerton and Frome.
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