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‘BREXIT’ SPECIALS FOR BBC WORLD NEWS AS BBC.COM SEES RECORD TRAFFIC

June 30th 2016. As the implications of the UK vote to leave the European Union become clear BBC World News has announced ring special editions of its flagship programmes for this week. This follows a record breaking weekend for BBC.com as people around the world searched for the latest updates.

To help global audiences stay across this fast moving story, Ros Atkins is presenting his innovative interactive daily news show Outside Source live from Brussels (6.00am AEST Friday) as the other countries and governments in the EU reflect on the historic result. While Matthew Amroliwala is anchoring special editions of his programme Global (11.00pm AEST Thursday and Friday), helping audiences understand the next steps.

For renowned interview programme HARDtalk Stephen Sackur has been talking to former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and Segolene Royale, French Environment Minister and former Socialist candidate for the French Presidency (Daily 1.30pm and 6.30pm AEST) in a series of several interviews in the coming week, discussing ‘Brexit’ with prominent figures from across the continent. While current affairs programme Panorama will be exploring the motivations of those who formed the historic Vote Leave majority (Friday 8th July – time tbc).

And with much of the focus globally on the economic and financial implications, business correspondent Tanya Beckett will be in London for a Talking Business Brexit special (2nd July 12.30am AEST) exploring the impact on business around the world.

Plus the international news channel will be drawing on the BBC’s global network of correspondents to keep audiences informed of all developments around the clock across its bulletins.

The special programmes are complemented by a continuing wealth of content on BBC.com, which has seen a record-breaking spike in traffic. BBC.com attracted more than 21million unique browsers and 114million page views on results day (Friday 24th June) alone - with 30million unique browsers and 170million page views across the weekend*. Visitors to .com/eureferendum and people using the BBC News App can catch up with the latest developments as well as in-depth analysis and quick video explainers.

Our correspondents are available for interview.

*Source: comscore digital analytix

For more information please contact Nicole Hurren [email protected], ph: 02 9744 4551, 0420 538 200

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