Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
Coming up with the next half an hour,
we'll be getting the very latest on that super typhoon which has made landfall across the Philippines,
the second typhoon within a week.
But first, rather unusually, we begin this programme with news coming from inside the BBC today.
In the past couple of hours, the Director General of the BBC, Tim Davie, has resigned.
It follows days of criticism in the national press here in the UK following the publication of a leaked internal report into allegations of bias and,
most prominently,
the broadcasting of a panorama documentary programme in which the lengthy speech given by President Trump on January 6,
2021 was represented by a clip of the President which cut together two separate portions of the speech giving a misleading interpretation of the president's words.
The CEO of News, Deborah Turness, has also resigned this evening.
In a statement to staff, she wrote, the buck stops with me.
In public life, leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I'm stepping down.
Well, it comes at a critical time for the publicly funded broadcaster.
The constitutional basis of its existence, or charter, as it's known, is up for review in 2027.
The British Broadcasting corporation has a huge global reach,
with audiences of up to 450 million a week.
That's nearly half a billion people around the world.
Well,