well, let's speak to tarik kafala, who's controller of languages for the bbc world service. o much for coming on newswatch, tarik. how did you decide to launch this new service for sudan and what did setting it up involve? so the emergency pop up service for sudan is a response to a crisis in sudan. obviously that escalated very quickly and suddenly. and we tried to respond as quickly. so our audiences in sudan, mainly to the arabic service, would normally receive our news through television and digital. we closed the arabic radio service in february this year. so under these circumstances, in this emergency, in this crisis, electricity is obviously a crucial issue. it's supply, power cuts and so on. so where are people going to get they're going to get their news from? we felt, as we have in the past, we've got a history of this. we'd respond to a particular crisis with a particular service. how are you paying for this service? yeah, it's being paid out of current budgets. we are obviously we always have a contingency budget for emergencies. the bbc is pulled together. we're

meanwhile, paul lawrence was confused about this week's new service for sudan: well, let's speak to tarik kafalar news through television and digital. we closed the arabic radio service in february this year. so under these circumstances, in this emergency, in this crisis, electricity is obviously a crucial issue. it's supply, power cuts and so on. so where are people going to get they're going to get their news from? we felt, as we have in the past, we've got a history of this. we'd respond to a particular crisis with a particular service. how are you paying for this service? yeah, it's being paid out of current budgets. we are obviously we always have a contingency budget for emergencies. the bbc is pulled together. we're being offered the studio space and the technical support for free from other parts of production operations. and the bbc are colleagues in distribution and marketing are just sort of stretching their workload to cover this. we also have, in the business, people who are in our radio services who are moving into new roles or potentially leaving the business, leaving the bbc, an

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