The BBC is one of my favorite news services because it offers coverage of a very wide variety of topics and interests. Last Thursday the BBC announced that they are planning to offer six new news channels on YouTube. By the end of the year the BBC will be offering news videos through YouTube in Spanish, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Urdu. (View the BBC’s current offerings on their YouTube channel).

Applications for Education
The addition of news video offerings in new languages should be of use to ESL/EFL teachers who are trying to incorporate current news into their curriculum.