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List of current BBC newsreaders and reporters

This is a list of newsreaders and journalists currently employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio .

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Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online .

BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two ) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom . BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely for BBC Sounds .

The BBC has over 5,500 journalists [1] based both in the United Kingdom and abroad. BBC appointments can be short- or long-term; for example, reporter Peter Bowes revealed on BBC News (broadcast live on 8 September 2020) that Los Angeles has been his home for 25 years.

Many presenters listed here contribute to various BBC News programs, and some are involved in other BBC projects. Additionally, certain BBC News presenters offer relief presentation for programs airing on these channels. It's important to note that this list excludes presenters of broadcasts simulcast from the BBC News channel on BBC One overnight or during weekday mornings on BBC Two .

The presenters listed below often contribute to various BBC News programs and may have roles in other departments within the BBC. Additionally, some BBC News presenters not listed here occasionally fill in on programs broadcast on this channel. Noteworthy exceptions are the presenters of the domestic programs BBC Breakfast , BBC One bulletins, and BBC Newsnight simulcast on the domestic feed.

A significant change occurred on April 3, 2023, when the BBC consolidated its domestic and international rolling news channels into a unified operation. To spearhead news broadcasts on the merged channel during weekdays, the BBC appointed six (original) "chief presenters." This has since grown to twelve. Among them, nine are based in London, while two operate from Washington DC and one operates out of the BBC News studio in Singapore. [4]

Chief presenters

The programmes where the presenter is the lead presenter are bolded. Chief Presenters work across BBC One, BBC Two and primarily the BBC News Channel. The chief presenters broadcast on the channel between 12:00 and 8:00 London time during weekdays. Chief presenters will front BBC News coverage of editorially significant events on weekends. News broadcasts outside of these hours, and on weekends are fronted by other BBC presenters, many of which previously appeared on the domestic and international rolling news channels prior to their merger.

Other presenters

The list below reflects presenters normal postings, but can be posted to cover other studios

The broadcasters mentioned below frequently contribute to various BBC Radio programs and may hold roles in different departments within the BBC. Moreover, some BBC Radio hosts not listed here occasionally step in on programs aired on this channel.

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The list provided indicates the usual assignments of correspondents. In instances of significant global events, like the Libyan crisis in 2011 or the Gaza conflict in 2023, foreign correspondents may be temporarily reassigned from their regular locations to cover these stories on a rotational basis. During such times, they are often labelled as "World Affairs Correspondents" or, if in Europe, as "Europe Correspondents." Subsequently, they return to their usual assignments. Additionally, this temporary reassignment may occur to cover holidays, primarily in July and August, as well as during Christmas periods. The BBC has a variety of specialist positions also including Regional Editors who are often shared across the world service output also.

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BBC News employs a number of business and sports presenters to anchor sections of news programmes.

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Who are the BBC News presenters? Everything you need to know

By Silvia Pellegrino

BBC One is the biggest individual news source in the UK, reaching 62% of online adults last year according to Ofcom.

The broadcast regulator also reported a growth in audiences of all ages using BBC TV news services last year.

Here we have a rundown of the presenters of BBC Breakfast, BBC News at One, News at Six and News at Ten as of 31 August 2022.

Who are the BBC Breakfast presenters?

BBC Breakfast broadcasts on BBC One daily, and covers topics from sports to weather, from news to business. The programme has a major impact on the daily news agenda, as interviews with cabinet ministers and other high-profile politicians frequently make headlines.

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A lot has changed since the first BBC Breakfast show in 1983 , such as presenters, schedule and even the name. It used to be called Breakfast Time, and it lasted 150 minutes. Today, it goes on from 6am to 9am, divided into sections for each field, from sports to weather.

Here is the list of all BBC Breakfast news presenters:

Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty is one of the most prominent figures on BBC Breakfast. She started in 2014, usually covering the slots from Thursday through to Saturday. As the BBC’s website describes: “She enjoys asking questions that the audience would like to ask.”

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She started her TV career at Reuters Financial Television, going on to work at CNBC Europe, Channel 4 News and Bloomberg Television, before joining the BBC Working Lunch team in 2008.

Munchetty was at the centre of controversy regarding former US President Donald Trump’s tweets in 2020. During a Breakfast programme, Munchetty and co-host Dan Walker discussed a tweet by Trump in which he had stated that some US congresswomen of colour should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”. In response, Munchetty said that this kind of comment was “embedded in racism”.

The BBC’s executive complaints unit believed that her comment went against the BBC’s guidelines on impartiality after a viewer sent a complaint. However BBC director general Lord Hall overturned the ruling after more than 40 prominent black media figures wrote an open letter about it to the broadcaster. “Racism is racism and the BBC is not impartial on the topic,” he said.

Munchetty’s career includes many big name interviews such as Sir David Attenborough and Mick Jagger.

Sally Nugent

Sally Nugent has been part of the BBC Breakfast team for almost ten years as a sports presenter, but she started her journalism career more than 25 years ago. She is now one of the main presenters on the show.

As a sports journalist, she covered major stories like the Grand National in 1997, the UEFA Cup campaign in 2001 and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

In 2003, she became a sports reporter for BBC News, before moving to the BBC News Channel (then BBC News 24). Her CV also includes being a news correspondent on TV for outlets like Sportsday.

Nugent joined BBC Breakfast in 2011 as a freelance reporter, presenting bulletins on the programme. A decade later in October 2021, she became a core presenter, replacing Louise Minchin .

Charlie Stayt

Born in Gloucester, Charlie Stayt started working on the radio hosting Capital Radio’s news show The Way It Is, as well as working for LBC and BBC Radio 5 Live later on.

He started his television career at ITN in 1995, working on Five News, where he covered the tragic events of 9/11. After working at ITN for almost a decade, Stayt also worked for Sky News and hosted two live reality shows: Jailbreak and Are You Telepathic.

In 2006, Stayt joined BBC Breakfast as a relief presenter. A year later, he got promoted as its Friday-Sunday presenter. Today, he covers the Thursday-Saturday slot with Naga Munchetty.

Carol Kirkwood

Carol Kirkwood was born in Morar, and after her graduation from Edinburgh Napier University in 1984 she joined the BBC’s secretarial reserve in London.

Kirkwood then started working for the BBC’s Religious Broadcasting department on Radio Scotland, Radio 4 and Radio 2. After more career moves in 1993, such as producing and hosting a bi-monthly show called Talking Issues, and after completing meteorological training, Kirkwood joined the BBC Weather Centre in 1998.

The presenter was also named best TV Weather Presenter at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards nine times.

She is now the main BBC Breakfast weather presenter and has been since 2013.

Nina Warhurst

Journalist, newsreader, television presenter and actress Nina Warhurst is currently a business and consumer presenter on BBC Breakfast.

She was born in Manchester and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics, then pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Westminster.

The year 1997 saw the start of her television career, on the Christmas special of Casualty, Heartbeat in 1998 and Butterfly Collectors in 1999. Her broadcasting career, on the other hand, started in Moscow in 2005.

Warhurst became part of The Guardian’s Manchester regional television channel Channel M, presenting its breakfast programme in 2007. Three years later she started working at the BBC, specifically, BBC East Midlands, hosting the show East Midlands Today.

In 2016 she became a political editor at BBC North West, after covering the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil for BBC Sport.

Now acting as a business presenter, Warhurst began working at BBC Breakfast in 2018 on a freelance basis until 2020 when she was promoted to one of BBC Breakfast’s main presenters.

Hull-born Jon Kay grew up in Cheshire before moving to California for a year. The three years he spent in Devon studying politics at Exeter University gave him the chance to join its radio programmes, which inspired him to start a career in broadcast journalism.

The presenter joined the BBC in 1993 as a trainee reporter and then got a full-time position at BBC Bristol. He decided to move to London shortly after, pursuing a career as a political reporter and news correspondent.

Kay embarked on a one-year-long journey around the world with his wife, going through China, Central America, Australasia and South East Asia. During their stay in Mexico, however, they were caught in a hurricane but were both able to return safely to the UK.

On his return, Kay became a correspondent for national TV and radio for the BBC. Today, he is a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast, from Monday to Wednesday every week.

Mike Bushell

Mike Bushell is one of the main sports presenters on BBC Breakfast. During his time covering sports on Saturday mornings, he has been able to try out over 400 different sports.

In his early life, he played football, cricket and hockey at school, but his other passion was acting, leading him to pursue a degree in theatre and television. He actually stumbled upon journalism by chance, as he was trying to make ends meet and got a job at a local newspaper in Winchester.

He started his Saturday morning show in 2006 and, since then, he has been trying to venture into discourse about less popular or known sports, alongside the most common ones. A few examples are cage cricket and nurdling.

Bushell also covered the Olympics and the Winter Games, as well as other major sports events.

Who are the News at One presenters?

The BBC’s flagship afternoon news show is a staple for audiences at home, with audiences reaching as many as 4.2 million viewers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

These are the regular faces that make up the show’s roster:

Victoria Derbyshire

Lancashire-born Victoria Derbyshire studied English Literature and Language at the University of Liverpool and achieved a postgraduate diploma in Radio and TV Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, before beginning her career at BBC Radio 5 in 1998.

During her time at Radio 5, Derbyshire covered major historical events like 9/11 and the Paris Concorde Crash. She worked in radio until 2014, but began her transition to television in 2011. Her first appearance on television was on the show Have I Got News For You.

The broadcaster has become a household name despite overcoming a difficult and traumatic childhood. She has publicly discussed her father’s physical abuse of her family and her subsequent estrangement from him.

In 2015, the journalist announced that she was fighting breast cancer , but she never lost her motivation to work.

Since her show Victoria Derbyshire – which first aired in 2015 – was cancelled in 2020, Derbyshire has worked on BBC News at 9 on BBC Two, BBC World News and BBC News at One. From September 2022, Derbyshire will become one of the main presenters of BBC Newsnight .

Reeta Chakrabarti

Reeta Chakrabarti is known for presenting BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News, as well as appearing occasionally on BBC World News.

Chakrabarti was born in London but was raised in Birmingham in her early youth. She moved to India when she was a teenager, where she attended the Calcutta International School and then King Edward VI High School for Girls in the UK. Chakrabarti graduated in English and French from Exeter College, Oxford in 1988.

Chakrabarti started out in radio working as a producer on BBC Radio 4 and working on the Today Programme, before becoming a reporter on 5 Live Breakfast. In 1992, she switched to BBC Radio 1.

In 1997, she joined television by becoming the BBC Community Affairs Correspondent and then Political Correspondent. Chakrabarti reported across multiple platforms: BBC1, BBC2, BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio 5 Live. She covered mostly political news such as three General Elections but, when she became Education Correspondent in 2010, she started covering more social affairs.

Before starting her career, Chakrabarti had her mind set on a different kind of journalism : “I thought I wanted to go into print journalism, but a very nice woman at BBC Radio in Birmingham took me under her wing and said ‘look, come and work with me’. That is how I became a broadcaster and I love it.”

Ben Brown is currently a presenter on BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Ten and BBC World News.

He is the son of the ITN newscaster Antony Brown , and he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College, Oxford, under an Open Scholarship. Brown also graduated from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies with a postgraduate diploma.

His career started as a reporter for Radio Clyde in Glasgow, and later as a reporter for Radio City in Liverpool. In 1986, Brown joined Independent Radio News and two years later he joined BBC TV News as a Foreign Affairs Correspondent.

Reporting events like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the civil war in Chechnya in 1992, he was awarded many international prizes, including the Bayeux War Correspondent of the Year Award and the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in the same year, 1994.

Born in Sussex, Jane Amanda Hill is one of the main presenters at BBC News, covering BBC News at One, at Six, and at Ten.

She studied Politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, in 1991. In the same year, she joined the BBC full-time. Hill completed the BBC journalism training programme and then joined BBC Radio 5 Live, where she worked for 18 months.

Hill was then hired at the BBC News 24-hour channel in 1997, where she not only covered the 9/11 attack, but also the first anniversary commemorations at Ground Zero. She also covered the Iraq war and the disappearance of Madeline McCann.

Who are the News at Six presenters?

BBC News at Six is one of the most watched TV programmes in the UK, with five episodes in the top 20 of all shows in the week of 15 August 2022.

The current main presenters are:

George Alagiah

George Alagiah has been one of the main BBC News at Six presenters since 2007.

Alagiah received his primary education in Ghana, West Africa; his secondary education took place in Portsmouth. He then went to university at Van Mildert College, Durham University, where he read politics.

He joined the BBC in 1989, after seven years of journalism with South Magazine. Before becoming a presenter, he acted as a correspondent in South Africa, and he reported on events such as the genocide in Rwanda and the civil wars in Sierra Leone.

Alagiah joined BBC News at Six in 2003 as a relief presenter and became the main presenter in 2007.

Throughout his career, he was able to interview personalities such as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Alagiah was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, and he told a podcast this year : “Probably… it will get me in the end. I’m hoping it’s a long time from now, but I am very lucky.”

Alagiah announced he was taking a break from presenting in October 2021 for treatment but was able to come back in April this year.

Sophie Raworth

Sophie Raworth is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

Raworth grew up in Middlesex and got a degree in French and German at the University of Manchester, later obtaining a Master’s in Broadcast Journalism at City, University of London.

In 1992, the journalist first joined the BBC as a news reporter. She then moved to national television in 1997, to co-host BBC’s Breakfast News on BBC One, alongside first Justin Webb and then John Nicolson.

After joining BBC’s early morning news show Breakfast in 2000, Raworth moved to BBC News at Six in 2003. She has presented various shows since then, such as Watchdog Daily and Crimewatch.

She has been the main relief presenter on BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten since 2009.

Clive Myrie

Clive Myrie was born in Bolton, Lancashire to Jamaican immigrant parents. He graduated from the University of Sussex with a BA in Law.

In 1987, Myrie joined the BBC as a trainee local radio reporter. Nine years later, he became a foreign correspondent for the BBC and has reported from over 80 countries since then. Being the BBC’s Tokyo, Los Angeles and Paris correspondent, the broadcaster had the chance to encompass major stories throughout the years, such as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the Iraq War.

Myrie has also presented on BBC World News covering events like the 2016 US Election as well as appearing on World News Today. In 2019, he began presenting on BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten and covered the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as a BBC anchor.

Of going to a warzone, Myrie told Headlines Network’s Behind the Headlines podcast : “…we’re not trying to be heroes. We’re just doing our job… [going to a war zone] is a free choice and it’s vital that you are not compelled to work in a hostile environment, because if you are not feeling comfortable in yourself in that kind of stressful situation then that’s when you start, potentially, making mistakes.”

Who are the News at Ten presenters?

Formerly known as the BBC Ten O’Clock News, it is the evening news programme for the BBC News channel and BBC One. It airs every day at 10pm.

The main presenters are Huw Edwards, Clive Myrie, Sophie Raworth and Reeta Chakrabarti. The weekend editions also see Mishal Husain at the helm as well as Myrie.

Huw Edwards

Huw Edwards is a Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader. He mainly presents BBC News at Ten, however, he is also occasionally a relief presenter for BBC News at Six, BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News and Daily Politics.

Edwards is very proud of his Welsh heritage. After his first degree in French at the University College, Cardiff, Edwards started a postgraduate course at Cardiff University in Medieval French, before becoming a reporter for Swansea Sound and then joining the BBC in 1984 .

In 2003, the journalist became the main presenter of BBC News at Ten on BBC One, while still presenting other shows like the Festival of Remembrance and Trooping the Colour. Edwards was in charge of the commentary of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics, and 2014 Commonwealth Games. He also covered the 2008 election of US President Barack Obama.

Recently, Edwards was made to remove a tweet regarding the Welsh flag after a controversy during an interview with the housing minister Robert Jenrick on BBC Breakfast. Presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty said, jokingly, that the British flag that constituted the minister’s backdrop was not quite large enough. Edwards retaliated by posting a picture on Twitter of his face photoshopped onto the Welsh dragon flag, captioning it “Flags are not mandatory – very pleased with my new backdrop for @BBCNews at Ten”.

More recently, Edwards presented around the news of the death of Prince Philip on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News Channel, and BBC World News.

Mishal Husain

Mishal Husain , born in Northampton to Pakistani parents, is the main Sunday presenter on BBC News at Ten on Sundays and BBC Weekend News – as well as one of the regular presenters on BBC Radio 4’s Today.

She studied in Abu Dhabi until the age of 12 when she returned to England to continue her education at Cobham Hall School, an independent school in Kent. The journalist got her bachelor’s degree at Cambridge and then achieved a Master’s in Comparative Law in Florence, Italy.

Husain started her journalism career by spending three months as a city reporter in Pakistan at the age of 18 in 1991, as well as doing some work experience during her university years. Her first job was at Bloomberg Television in London, as a producer and presenter. Two years later, in 1998, she joined the BBC on the News 24 channel as a junior producer.

She has been a foreign correspondent several times, including in Singapore, Iraq and Washington.

Husain is the author of an autobiographical essay in The Independent in 2010 about her trips to the UAE. In 2011, the reporter directed and made a documentary about the Arab Spring, as well as being part of the BBC’s Olympic Presenting team.

After continuing to work with the BBC and covering events like The Commonwealth Games in 2013, Husain won the Broadcaster of the Year Award at the London Press Club Awards in 2015.

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Jane Hill and Ben Brown among anchors axed as BBC merges news channels

Insiders say departure of popular BBC News channel presenters – with Martine Croxall also going – could prompt ageism row

Some of the BBC News channel’s most famous faces, including Jane Hill, Ben Brown and Martine Croxall, have been axed before the launch this spring of a channel that combines international and domestic news.

The trio have become familiar to UK viewers during times of political and economic turmoil and their departure could prompt a row about ageism, according to BBC insiders.

From April, the BBC News channel and its commercial global counterpart BBC World News will disappear and be replaced by a new channel called BBC News, aimed at UK and international audiences.

Merging the two channels is part of a £500m cost-cutting and redistribution mission announced by the BBC director general, Tim Davie, to create a “digital-first” organisation and save £285m a year , necessitated by the government freezing the licence fee for two years.

Presenters were invited to apply for the chief anchor roles on BBC News and none of Hill, Brown or Croxall were chosen although Hill will be presenting more shifts on the main BBC News bulletins so will remain at the corporation. Other regulars such as Annita McVeigh, Geeta Guru-Murthy or Shaun Ley were also not chosen and some presenters such as Joanna Gosling declined to audition and have already left.

Instead, Matthew Amroliwala, Christian Fraser, Yalda Hakim, Lucy Hockings and Maryam Moshiri will be the key presenters of BBC News, leaving the future of the others at the BBC in doubt.

The National Union of Journalists is understood to be arguing there is still room for others on the new channel or in other roles across the corporation such as radio. One source said eyebrows had been raised about the age of the women who had not been chosen, and claimed all but one of them have had pay corrections due to equal pay issues.

Some insiders have said the choice of presenters signals that the focus of the new channel will be more on international news. Amroliwala is the main presenter for BBC World News’s flagship programme, Global, but is known to UK audiences as he was a lead presenter on the BBC News channel for 16 years.

Fraser presents The Context on the BBC News channel and has co-presented Beyond 100 Days on BBC World News. Hakim, Moshiri and Hockings have worked principally as anchors on BBC World News.

The BBC said all the anchors had been appointed “via a competitive interview process in accordance with BBC HR procedures”.

The BBC News chief executive, Deborah Turness, said: “This team’s editorial leadership, talent, knowledge and flair make them the ideal presenters to bring the BBC’s trusted journalism to people at home in the UK and around the globe.”

The channel is expected to launch in the first week of April and will split into two feeds when it needs to cover big breaking domestic stories that are not of enough importance or interest to world audiences.

The Guardian has learned that Turness has asked for more home news on the station. Some UK politicians are likely to be unhappy that fewer of their constituents’ concerns will be covered by a station funded by licence fee payers but aimed also at audiences abroad, where it will be allowed to sell adverts.

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BBC World Cup commentators: Full line-up of Qatar 2022 presenters and pundits, from Gary Lineker to Alex Scott

Lineker will be the bbc's lead presenter throughout the tournament, joined by a host of familiar faces including alan shearer, ian rush and micah richards.

Gary Lineker is leading the BBC’s World Cup coverage once more as the tournament heads to Qatar and the Middle East for the first time.

The Match of the Day host has been part of the BBC’s broadcasting team for the competition since France ’98, and the main presenter since the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

Lineker has plenty of World Cup pedigree from his playing days too, scoring 10 goals – an England record – in the 1986 and 1990 tournaments. He is one of only two Englishmen – along with Harry Kane in 2018 – to win a World Cup golden boot, doing so with six goals at the 1986 edition in Mexico.

He opened the BBC’s coverage by calling the tournament the “most controversial World Cup in history”, ahead of host nation Qatar’s 2-0 defeat against Ecuador in the opening game. “Stick to football, Fifa say, and we will… for a couple of minutes at least,” he said.

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He will be helped out over the course of the 64-game tournament by a few of British sport’s most experienced and respected presenters in Gabby Logan, Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates.

Logan was the BBC’s lead anchor for last summer’s Uefa European Women’s Championship, which enjoyed record-breaking viewership in the UK.

Chapman is the regular host on the BBC’s Match of the Day Two and is synonymous with the corporation’s 5 Live coverage.

Cates fronts Sky Sports’ Friday and Saturday Night Football coverage of the Premier League.

Match of the Day regulars Alan Shearer, Micah Richards and Jermaine Jenas are all part of the punditry line-up, which also includes two former World Cup winners in Jürgen Klinsmann and Gilberto Silva.

Here is the full list of BBC presenters, pundits, commentators and co-commentators in Qatar:

Gary Lineker
Gabby Logan
Mark Chapman
Kelly Cates

Alan Shearer

Captained England at the 1998 World Cup, scoring twice in four games against Tunisia in the group stage and Argentina in the last 16. A regular presence on Match of the Day.

Rio Ferdinand

The former Manchester United defender represented his country at two World Cups in 2002 and 2006 and is now a pundit on BT Sport for their Premier League and Champions League coverage.

Jermaine Jenas

Capped 21 times by England from 2003 until 2009 and was a non-playing member of the squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Now combines punditry roles with BBC and BT Sport and co-presents The One Show.

Micah Richards

Earned 13 international caps for England between 2006-2012, scoring one goal, and was also in the Team GB squad for the 2012 Olympics in London. Richards is a pundit for both Sky Sports and the BBC.

Scott is the fourth-most capped player in England’s Women’s history, earning 140 over a 13-year international career and winning a bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup. Since retiring in 2018 she has been a consistent presence on UK television and has a degree in professional sports writing and broadcasting.

Danny Gabbidon

A former Wales international defender who earned 49 caps for his country across a 12-year international career. He has been part of BBC 5 Live’s coverage since retiring and is a regular guest on the BBC Welsh Football podcast.

A Liverpool and Wales legend, Rush won 20 trophies with the former and was the all-time leading goalscorer for the latter before being surpassed by Gareth Bale.

Ashley Williams

Wales’s fifth-most capped player ever with 86. Williams captained his country at Euro 2016 and scored during the memorable victory against Belgium in the quarter-final. Retired in 2020 and now features on Match of the Day .

Vincent Kompany

Made 89 appearances for Belgium between 2004 and 2019 and was part of the squad that finished third in the 2018 World Cup. Won 12 major honours with Manchester City, including four Premier League titles, and is currently the manager of Burnley in the Championship.

Didier Drogba

Played a significant role as Ivory Coast qualified for its first-ever World Cup in 2006 and also featured in the 2010 and 2014 editions of the tournament. He is also his country’s top scorer with 42 goals. Won 14 major honours with Chelsea, including the Champions League in 2012.

Gary Lineker: Human rights abuses and homophobia in Qatar make me feel queasy Gary Lineker spoke to i ‘s northern football correspondent Mark Douglas about his thoughts about the World Cup before the tournament got under way: “I haven’t felt quite the same about this one. I’m a little queasy about it. The human rights, the deaths building the stadiums, the homophobia in their laws, none of it sits right. “But this is not a one-off, it has happened before. You go back to 1934 and Mussolini tried to use the World Cup to promote fascism. I remember the military junta in 1978 which was awful and a terrible backdrop to that World Cup. More recently in Brazil there were demonstrations with people saying we shouldn’t be spending this money on stadiums when our social care system is broken, and even in 2018 Russia had invaded Ukrainian Crimea before the tournament. Related Stories Gary Lineker: 'Human rights abuses and homophobia in Qatar make me queasy about this World Cup' 12 November, 2022 “What separates this one from the others is we know it’s corrupt, it has now been proven. Most of the Fifa committee are either in jail, have been banned from football or fined. But we’re stuck with it and the new Fifa incumbents – while they might make mistakes – I don’t think they’re corrupt. “They’re stuck with it, it was too far down the road to change it and it’s the same for us. We’re going there to broadcast it, journalists are going too but we’re there to report on it not support it. “We’re not cheerleaders for it and that’s an important thing.” Read Mark’s interview with Gary Lineker here .

Laura Georges

Capped 188 times by France’s Women’s team, helping her country win the She Believes Cup in 2017. Georges was part of an all-conquering Lyon side and also represented PSG prior to retiring in 2018. Currently the secretary general of the French Football Federation.

Jürgen Klinsmann

Won the World Cup with West Germany in 1990 and the European Championship with Germany in 1996. Managed his country to a semi-final place in the 2006 tournament on home soil.

Mark Schwarzer

Australia’s all-time most capped player with 109, spanning across a 20-year international career. Schwarzer, who played for Bradford, Middlesbrough, Fulham, Chelsea and Leicester in England, represented his country at two World Cups.

Gilberto Silva

A World Cup winner with Brazil and 2002 and member of Arsenal’s “Invincibles”, who won the Premier League title without losing a game in 2003-04.

Pablo Zabaleta

A former Argentina international and a World Cup runner-up after playing in the final defeat against Germany in 2014. Won six major honours with Manchester City, including two Premier League titles.

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Alistair Bruce-Ball
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Conor McNamara
John Murray
Vicki Sparks

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Women's World Cup 2023: Who are the BBC presenters, pundits and commentators?

BBC's World Cup 2023 presenting, punditry and commentary line-ups feature plenty of familiar faces

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At the Women's World Cup this month, the BBC will share UK broadcasting duties with the ITV once again.

The first Women's World Cup 2023 fixture shown on BBC will be the opening game, where joint-hosts New Zealand taken on Norway on Thursday 20 July, with England's second game against Denmark also being broadcast by BBC.

Gabby Logan is the BBC's main football presenter for the tournament, continuing on from the role she performed at the Women's Euros last year. Former England internationals such as Alex Scott, Steph Houghton, Ellen White and Fara Williams will join her in the studio, while Arsenal manager Jonas Eidevall will also be offering his expert insight.

Robyn Cowen is the broadcaster's main commentator, but we'll also hear from Jonathan Pearce and Vicky Sparks in the gantry.

So, when you're watching the World Cup this summer, this is who will be on your screens:

BBC'S WORLD CUP PRESENTERS

Gabby logan.

Gabby Logan is a former gymnast turned TV presenter and the daughter of former Welsh international footballer and manager Terry Yorath. Logan has been presenting on Sky Sports in 1996, moving to ITV in 1998 and later the BBC in 2007. Logan has presented various sports shows on the Beeb and was the lead anchor for Women's Euro 2022.

Reshmin Chowdhury

Reshmin Chowdhury is an experienced broadcaster who currently leads live coverage of the Premier League on Talksport on Saturday mornings, and also presents for Sky Sports on the Women's Super League and the Women's Football Show on the BBC.

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Chowdhury has also covered European competitions on BT Sport, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games with Eurosport and Discovery+, and presented for ITV at Euro 2020.

Alex Scott appeared 140 times for England, represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics and won five titles in English football with Arsenal. When she covered the men's 2018 FIFA World Cup, she became the first female football pundit at a World Cup for the BBC and has since presented Football Focus , coverage of women's football on the BBC and the 2020 Olympic Games alongside Clare Balding.

As well as presenting, Scott will also work as a pundit for some games, too.

BBC's World Cup pundits

Ellen white.

Ellen White retired from professional football less than 12 months ago, after winning Euro 2022 with the Lionesses. She started all six games at the tournament, scoring twice, and retired from the national team with 52 goals in 113 caps - making her the highest scoring England women's player in history. She has since worked as a pundit on WSL coverage.

Steph Houghton

Despite still playing for Manchester City, Houghton hasn't featured for England since 2021 - though injuries suggested she might be included for the 2023 World Cup. Alas, she wasn't selected, but the BBC have snapped her up instead to work as a pundit for the tournament. She has played 121 times for her nation in her career, a large amount as captain.

Fara Williams

With 172 caps to her name, Williams has played the most games for England in history. Since retiring in 2021, she has gone onto frequently work in the media, with regular appearances on Sky Sports for their WSL coverage, as well as for the BBC during England women games.

Rachel Brown-Finnis

Rachel Brown-Finnis is a former goalkeeper who played 82 times for England between 1997 and 2013. She now works for Everton's Community Project, as well as a pundit for BBC’s Football Focus, BBC’S Women's Football Show and at multiple tournaments as both a pundit and co-commentator. She will continue both roles for Australia and New Zealand.

Anita Asante

Anita Asante is the current Bristol City WFC manager, and achieved promotion from the Women's Championship in her first season in charge. The 38-year-old retired from football just last year having made 71 appearances for England during her career.

Karen Bardsley

Karen Bardsley earned 82 caps in goal for England and won major trophies with Manchester City. She retired in 2022 after a long-term injury. She worked at the 2022 World Cup as a co-commentator, something she will do alongside being a pundit for the tournament Down Under.

Laura Georges

Laura Georges is the Secretary General of the French Football Federation, having garned 188 caps for her country in a 17-year career. Georges played for the likes of Lyon, PSG and Bayern Munich in her career, winning the Division 1 Feminine six times with Lyon, as well as the Women’s Champions League twice. She appeared as a pundit during Women's Euro 2022 and the men's 2022 World Cup.

Jonas Eidevall

Eidevall is the current manager of WSL outfit Arsenal. While the Swede will soon start preparations for the domestic new campaign, he is set to offer his services to the BBC for the tournament - just as he did at Euro 2022 last summer.

Scott Booth

Scott Booth currently manages Lewes in the Women's Championship, and recently helped the club reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup. A former professional himself, Booth played for the likes of Borussia Dortmund, Aberdeen and Twente during his career, before venturing into coaching.

After retiring from football, Booth began a career in broadcasting. He worked as a match co-commentator and pundit for Setanta Sports until its UK broadcasting operation went into administration. He has also worked for STV, BBC Radio Scotland and ESPN.

BBC's World Cup commentators

Robyn cowen.

Robyn Cowen is the lead commentator on the BBC for women's football. She has also been a prominent voice on Match of the Day since 2018, joining the BBC in 2011, working primarily on radio before her move to MOTD .

Jonathan Pearce

Jonathan Pearce has been commentating on the BBC since the 1990s and is also known as the voice of cult show Robot Wars on the BBC. Pearce is also a prominent voice in women's football and has frequently commentated on women's tournaments in his time on the Beeb.

Vicki Sparks

Vicki Sparks is a journalist and football commentator for BBC Sport and BT Sport. In 2018, she became the first woman to commentate on a live men's World Cup match on British television, when she covered Portugal's 1-0 win over Morocco.

Watching the World Cup in the UK is free, provided you already have a TV license. If you're out of the country, we've got a full guide on how to watch World Cup 2023 live streams from anywhere in the world .

Thursday, July 20

New Zealand vs Norway (8am BST - BBC)

Friday, July 21

Nigeria vs Canada (3.30am BST - BBC)

Spain vs Costa Rica (8.30am BST - BBC)

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United States vs Vietnam (2am BST - BBC)

Zambia vs Japan (8am BST - BBC)

Denmark vs China (1pm BST - BBC)

Sunday, July 23

Sweden vs South Africa (6am BST - BBC)

Netherlands vs Portugal (8.30am BST - BBC

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Colombia vs South Korea (3am BST - BBC)

Wednesday, July 26

Span vs Zambia (8.30am BST - BBC)

Thursday, July 27

United States vs Netherlands (2am BST - BBC)

Australia vs Nigeria (11am BST - BBC)

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England vs Denmark (9.30am BST - BBC)

Saturday, July 29

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France vs Brazil (11am BST - BBC)

Sunday, July 30

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Norway vs Philippines (8am BST - BBC)

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Canada vs Australia (11am BST - BBC)

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Argentina vs Sweden (8am BST - BBC)

Thursday August 3

South Korea vs Germany (11am BST - BBC)

Morocco vs Colombia (11am BST - BBC)

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JK Rowling dares police to arrest her over SNP’s new hate crime law

J K Rowling has challenged Scotland’s police to arrest her under the SNP’s new hate crime law after stating that a series of high-profile trans women are men.

The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new Act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.”

Rowling posted pictures of 10 high-profile trans people on Twitter and mocked their claims to be women. They included Isla Bryson, who was initially sent to a women’s prison after being convicted of two rapes.

Among the others she listed was Andrew Miller, 53, who also used the name Amy George. The trans butcher abducted a young girl in the Scottish Borders while dressed as a woman and abused her for 27 hours.

The author also mentioned Katie Dolatowski, a trans paedophile who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the toilet of Morrisons in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in March 2018.

Other trans women she mentioned were Mridul Wadhwa, the chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre:

And Munroe Bergdorf, a trans model and activist:

She also made posts about Beth Douglas, a trans activist:

Samantha Norris, a sex offender:

Guilia Valentino, a trans Gaelic footballer:

And Katie Neeves, a UN worker:

Her final post was on TV personality India Willoughby. Activists have already unsuccessfully attempted to have Rowling arrested under existing laws for “misgendering” after she publicly called Willoughby a male.

At the end of the list, she tweeted:

She invited those who agreed with her to share the post and used the hashtag #arrestme.

By passing the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act , Rowling said MSPs had “placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls”.

She said: “The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.”

Responding to the posts, Willoughby tweeted: “What a sad, pathetic sight. The best-known author in the world sitting up all night to write a mega-long troll post about me because she’s consumed by a hatred of trans people. Completely deranged.”

Rowling’s comments came after Siobhian Brown, the SNP’s community safety minister, initially stated that misgendering – for example calling a trans woman “he” – would “not at all” fall foul of the legislation.

But after being challenged over calls for Rowling to be prosecuted under the Act, she then admitted it would be for the police to decide.

Speaking as the Act came into force on Monday, Ms Brown said: “It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would think it was criminal is up to Police Scotland for that.”

The minister was also challenged over the “odd” omission of women from the list of protected groups included in the legislation.

This means threats made against Rowling and other feminists critical of trans ideology could not be investigated under the Bill. Ms Brown admitted “more work needs to be done” and said a misogyny Bill would be introduced.

Humza Yousaf oversaw the passage of the hate crime legislation at Holyrood in 2021, when he was justice secretary in Nicola Sturgeon’s government, but it has only now come into force as Police Scotland said it needed time for training .

The law creates a criminal offence of “stirring up of hatred”, expanding on a similar offence based on racist abuse that has been on the statute book for decades. It covers hatred on the basis of age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.

However, an amendment to add sex to the list of protected characteristics at this stage was voted down, despite cross-party MSPs raising concerns about why women were excluded.

Someone convicted of stirring up hate could face a fine and a prison term of up to seven years.

Justin Webb, the BBC journalist who conducted the interview with Ms Brown, was found in February to have broken impartiality rules by calling trans women “males” on air .

The BBC upheld a complaint against the Today presenter after he said “trans women, in other words males” on the BBC Radio 4 programme last August.

A listener complained that the comment amounted to Mr Webb giving his personal view on a controversial matter in breach of the BBC’s requirements on impartiality.

The new legislation’s definition of a hate crime has attracted concerns that it is too ambiguous, potentially leading to a “chilling” effect on freedom of speech and a torrent of vexatious complaints being made to police.

In particular, Rowling’s allies have suggested that trans activists have her “in their sights”. The author has regularly argued that trans women are not women and last week vowed to continue “calling a man a man” after “this ludicrous law” comes into force.

The Telegraph has also disclosed that attendees at an official Police Scotland hate crime event in February were presented with a scenario involving a character called Jo who thinks that sex is binary and bizarrely calls for transgender people to be sent to gas chambers.

Feminist groups claimed that the character was a thinly-veiled parody of Rowling , whose first name is Joanne and who is called Jo by friends.

Askd by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme whether misgendering was a crime, Ms Brown said no, adding: “We respect everybody’s freedom for expression, and nobody in our society should live in fear or be made to feel like they don’t belong.”

However, challenged over a claim by an SNP councillor that Rowling is “not entitled to make people feel uncomfortable and to misgender someone”, she then admitted that it “would be a police matter for them to assess what happens”.

Ms Brown said it would be “an operational decision” and “it would not be for me as a minister to dictate what the police” did. She said officers had received a “lot of training in the last year”, including a two-hour online course, and she believed this gave them the criteria on which to base their decision.

“There’s a very high threshold, which is in the Act, which would be up to Police Scotland, and what would have to be said online or in person would be threatening and abusive,” she said.

“If you’re conveying a personal opinion that is challenging or offensive, for example, that would not be – I would say – would not be [illegal].”

Peter Tatchell, the LGBT campaigner, told Today it was a “good thing to try and crack down on prejudice and hate” but expressed concerns that “so much of the Act does involve subjective interpretation” and was “not clearly defined”.

“There’s no definition of hate when it comes to aggravated offences. There’s no definition of malice or ill-will. Now the caveat is that it all boils down to what a reasonable person would believe,” he said.

“But of course, reasonable people believe different things. And so there is a concern that the actual interpretation or enforcement of the Act may be clouded by subjective judgments.”

Mr Tatchell added that the “big flaw” in the Scottish hate crime legislation was it “does not protect women against hate” and there was “no protection against misogyny.”

Jim Sillars, the SNP’s former deputy leader, has launched a campaign to “resist the Hate Crime Act and campaign for its repeal”.

He said: “Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act inflicts a deep wound on the face of Scottish society. Today, on their own admission, Police Scotland will translate itself from a service into a force for one particular purpose, the pursuit of people who speak their minds. How has Scotland, the seat of the Enlightenment, come to this?”

Mr Yousaf claimed the legislation was needed thanks to “a rising tide of hatred against the people because of their protected characteristics”.

The First Minister told Sky News he “couldn’t disagree more” with a warning from the Scottish Police Federation that the Act was a “recipe for disaster”.

He said: “Of course, there has been appropriate training in place, but also police officers have been dealing with hatred for many, many decades and been doing it very sensibly. indeed.”

Mr Yousaf said there had been an offence of stirring up racial hatred since 1986 and there was “absolutely no evidence” to support warnings that there would be a large increase in the number of vexatious complaints.

“Unless your behaviour is threatening or abusive and intends to stir up hatred, then you have nothing to worry about in terms of the new offence that has been created,” he said.

“If your behaviour is threatening or abusive and does intend to stir up hatred against Jews, or Muslims, or disabled people or gay people, then I think the law should protect those people, who are the victims of that potential hatred.”

Asked about Rowling’s case, and her allies’ argument that she was not being “hateful”, he said the police would investigate if a crime had been committed and the Crown Office would decide “if there is a sufficiency of evidence to charge”.

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LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police are investigating the stabbing of an Iranian television presenter outside his home in London as concern grows over threats to a Farsi-language satellite news channel long critical of Iran’s theocratic government.

Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International , was stabbed in the leg Friday afternoon and is in stable condition at a hospital, the station said. His condition is not believed to be life-threatening.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service said Zeraati’s occupation, together with recent threats to U.K.-based Iranian journalists, triggered the counterterrorism probe, even though the motivation for the attack is still unclear.

“While we continue to assess the circumstances of this incident, detectives are following a number of lines of inquiry and our priority at this time is to try and identify whoever was behind this attack and to arrest them,” Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said in a statement.

“I appreciate the wider concern this incident may cause — particularly amongst others in similar lines of work, and those from Iranian communities.”

A view of a poster advertising comedian Ed Gamble's Hot Diggity Dog tour on the Bakerloo line platform at Embankment underground station in London, Wednesday March 27, 2024. Gamble has been ordered to change a subway station poster campaign for his new standup show because the image of a hot dog violated the transit network’s ban on junk food advertising. The poster for the show, “Hot Diggity Dog,” showed a mustard- and ketchup-smeared Gamble beside a half-eaten hot dog on a plate. A bemused Gamble replaced the wiener with a cucumber, and the poster was approved. (Joe Sene/PA via AP)

Iran International spokesman Adam Baillie said the stabbing was “hugely frightening.” Although the channel’s journalists have been threatened in the past, this is the first attack of its kind, Baillie told the BBC.

“It was a shocking, shocking incident, whatever the outcome of an investigation reveals,” he said.

Mehdi Hosseini Matin, Iran’s charge d’affaires in the UK, said “we deny any link” to the incident.

Police say they have disrupted “a number” of plots to kill or kidnap people in the U.K. who were seen as enemies of the Iranian government. Officers are working with intelligence agencies to disrupt future plots and provide protection for the targeted organizations and individuals, police said.

Early last year, Iran International temporarily shut down its operations in London and moved to studios in Washington, D.C., after what it described as an escalation of “state-backed threats from Iran.” The station resumed operations at a new location in London last September.

An Austrian man was convicted in December of attempting to collect information likely to be useful for terrorism after security guards spotted him carrying out surveillance on the former headquarters of Iran International. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.

Alicia Kearns, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, expressed concern that Britain still isn’t doing enough to protect opponents of the Iranian government.

“Whilst we don’t know the circumstances of this attack, Iran continues to hunt down those brave enough to speak out against the regime,” Kearns said on X, formerly Twitter. “Yet I remain unconvinced that we and our allies have clear strategies to protect people in our countries from them, and protect our interests abroad.”

Earlier this month, Foreign Secretary David Cameron condemned the conviction in absentia of 10 journalists from the BBC’s Persian service on propaganda charges against the Islamic Republic of Iran, calling it “completely unacceptable.”

“And also, when I last met the Iranian foreign minister, I raised the case of the fact that Iran was paying thugs to try and murder Iranian journalists providing free and independent information for Iran TV in Britain,” Cameron said in the House of Lords. “On both counts, in my view, they are guilty.”

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