Love these books; love this story 📖 "Battles were usually over things like money, women or power. Yet here was a love of books, a passion for literature and learning that ran so deep that people were willing to risk their lives for it." - M.T. 📚 Mike Thomson Wafa Tarnowska

Life in Lulu is back! How drama is shaping a better future for South Sudan BBC Media Action bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/wh…

A great evening and lots of money raised for the great work being done around the world by ⁦BBC Media Action⁩

Do take a look at this - some great in-depth reporting bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Israeli forces pull out of the flashpoint city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank after nearly ten days. This is what’s left behind

Another grim week in Gaza and the West Bank. Here's one of my BBC reports from Jerusalem

If you’re near a radio this evening - or later via BBC Sounds - do lend an ear illuminated_Radio 4 – Sunday Dec 29 - 7.15pm

Fascinating documentary by ⁦Mike Thomson⁩ - caught in a cyclone 50 years ago. ⁦Andrew Hosken⁩ ⁦becky milligan⁩ ⁦emma jane kirby⁩ ⁦Hugh Sykes⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Sanchia Berg Mike Thomson Andrew Hosken becky milligan emma jane kirby Thanks Sanchia! Lived experience informing a reporter's career and ....empathy: "Whose face am I not seeing in this photo?"...is a great question. Oh, and a great new expression for me. "Ripsnorter of a morning." Only in Australia.

We have been following Baby Elsa case in East London Family Court: her birth cannot be registered as long as police investigations continue.

Jeremy Bowen That's good as a whole .

Still in #Syria searching for my father. Thousands of families are searching for loved ones, desperate for any piece of information. For years, the Assad regime denied our pain, denied our demands, and gaslit us about their arrests. We won’t be silent. We demand the full truth

‘You could see it in the satellite imagery—parallel lines of mass graves.’ Mouaz Moustafa on NPR with Ruth Sherlock, revealing the Assad regime’s attempt to hide its crimes after key testimony before the U.S. Congress. The truth is out. Justice must follow. #Syria #MassGraves

For clarification: This letter is a request from the Director of Religious Affairs in Damascus to the Minister of Religious Affairs, asking and urging the implementation of such measures. This is NOT an official decision but rather a formal request for action.

📣 Some news about me: Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love. Journalism is not a crime. Here’s the BBC’s statement:

Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

Great night at the BBC Media Action Correspondents charity dinner - with many thousands raised - helped by auctioning Clive Myrie for a mighty sum!

From BBC News (UK) Warsaw Correspondent through 20 years on BBC Radio 4 Today with stints on BBC Newsnight and BBC Panorama I’ve worked with great colleagues ..Andrew Hosken Mike Thomson emma jane kirby Hugh Sykes becky milligan Sarah Montague justin webb Mishal Husain Meirion Jones Danny Shaw

Woman smuggled baby into UK using fake birth story - I’ll be on ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ shortly to talk about this bbc.com/news/articles/…

18gmt/19bst #TheNewsroom here ---> bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li… - 📻@bbcblindgazza, Jonathan Beale; Will Vernon; and Frank Gardner on the #Alaska talks; Azadeh Moshiri on deadly monsoon floods in #Pakistan; Mike Thomson on a warning of civil war in #Lebanon