What is BBC?
Only fresh and up-to-date news from a verified global network of journalists can be obtained by every user of the BBC: World News & Stories application. This is the official BBC app for smartphones, offering news, articles, videos, audio, and live coverage of events from a global network of journalists from around the world.
Key features
- BBC Stories. Short and detailed articles, reports, videos, and podcasts on topics such as world news, elections, analysis, BBC Verify investigations, economics, culture, travel, and the environment.
- Live section. Instant news updates and live streaming of world sports in real-time.
- BBC Audio. Listening to and subscribing to podcasts (“The Global Story”, “World of Secrets”), streaming BBC Radio 4 or
- BBC World Service with live-rewind and episode download features for offline listening.
- Video. Broadcasts of BBC News, BBC Sport, and thematic video stories on science, ecology, technology, etc.; users in the US and Australia have access to the 24/7 video stream of the BBC News Channel club.
Breaking News Alerts. Subscription to push notifications about urgent world events, with the ability to enable or disable them at the user’s discretion.
Additional settings:
- Saving articles, podcasts, and videos via BBC Account
- Works on both cellular and Wi-Fi
- Sleep timer and live-rewind for audio
- Increasing the font size for comfortable reading
- Dark theme interface
- Convenient export: share via social networks and messengers.
All materials and journalistic investigations on this resource are based on world practice, and the interactive format of the application is convenient and practical. Using push notifications, you can receive alerts that will involve up to 7 million users simultaneously – this is more than the audience of the most popular television programs or newspapers.
Install the BBC app on your smartphone and make sure that it is the most powerful tool for users who value verified sources, responsiveness, and multimedia content from the BBC. Connect to notification settings, use “dark mode” to save device battery and offline-saving of podcasts for easy reading outside of the internet.
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