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Sri Lanka's Killing Fields. Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 June 2011. [1] Described as one of the most graphic documentaries in British TV history, the documentary featured amateur video from the conflict zone filmed ...
She has been BBC Correspondent in the following countries: 2011 to 2011 Head of News, Amnesty International, London; 2008 to 2009 Scholarship to Imperial College Business School, MBA; 2007 to 2008 London Religious Reporter; 2004 to 2007 Iran (she was bureau chief of the BBC's Tehran office) 2000 to 2004 Sri Lanka
No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the ...
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 ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[ a ] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician currently serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 23 September 2024. He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National ...
Nihal Arthanayake was born on 1 June 1971, [1] to Theravada Buddhist [2] Sri Lankan parents. [3] Nihal began his involvement in the music industry as a promoter of rap shows in his native Essex, [4] while he was studying at Burnt Mill School, in Harlow, Essex.
In February 2018 Kermani was appointed the BBC's correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has interviewed Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, [7] former Prime Ministers of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, [8] the President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena, [9] and chief negotiator of the Afghan Taliban, Abbas Stanikzai. [10]
BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. – a subsidiary of BBC Studios – and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, and other factual programmes; it broadcasts from studios in London ...