BBC News 14 January 2008. The retirement of Peter Sissons and departure of Michael Buerk from the "Ten O'Clock News" led to changes in the BBC One bulletin presenting team on 20 January 2003. The "Six O'Clock News" became double headed with George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth after Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce moved to present the "Ten". A new set design featuring a projected fictional newsroom backdrop was introduced, followed on 16 February 2004 by new programme titles to match those of BBC News 24. BBC News 24 and BBC World introduced a new style of presentation in December 2003, that
BBC News "Newsbeat". The theme has had several changes since 1999, the latest in March 2013. The BBC Arabic Television news channel launched on 11 March 2008, a Persian-language channel followed on 14 January 2009, broadcasting from the Peel wing of Broadcasting House; both include news, analysis, interviews, sports and highly cultural programmes and are run by the BBC World Service and funded from a grant-in-aid from the British Foreign Office (and not the television licence). BBC Radio News produces bulletins for the BBC's national radio stations and provides content for local BBC radio stations via the General News Service (GNS), a