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How long was the last time you were at the BBC, Asma?
I was an intern in 2005 or 2006.
It's what hooked me into audio and radio.
You would step into the elevators and you would just hear this cacophony of voices and people from all over.
So the BBC language services, there are 43 of them.
I visited the language services, I remember,
and there was just nothing like it that I had ever seen before.
Going for 90 years, the World Service is 90 years old this year.
Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Arabic, Serbian, Polska, Russian, Ukrainian.
We've got Ebo, Yoruba.
What's Ebo?
It's another language.
Southeastern Nigeria.
You are really connected, I think,
to the world in a way that sometimes can feel very distant, I think, being an ocean away.
Here's the thing.
You know, as an American,
I think we've sort of been thinking about international news the wrong way.