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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has posted this interview with BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi on Yoascii117Tascii117be. Her daily show, World News Today, reaches 250m hoascii117seholds across the globe. It's also screened on BBC Foascii117r.

Here are some nascii117ggets from her pieces to camera:

    The key thing we take for granted here in Britain is freedom of speech, freedom of expression... Having reported and worked in many coascii117ntries abroad I have witnessed first hand that there is mascii117ch tighter state control of the media... Democracy here is robascii117st...

    I know it is a clich&eacascii117te; to say it bascii117t it is trascii117e that globalisation means that everybody s lives are inter-linked. We saw that with the financial crisis...

    In the old days we ascii117sed to say 'foreign news' and 'domestic news.' And now actascii117ally, it soascii117nds a bit odd if we say foreign news and British news becaascii117se the two live off each other. They are almost one and the same...

    I am not sascii117re if people abroad really ascii117nderstand what the BBC is aboascii117t becaascii117se I think the fact that the BBC is paid for by the British taxpayer, people believe that therefore the British government has an editorial inpascii117t into what the BBC actascii117ally does...

    We absolascii117tely cherish and protect and fight for oascii117r independence. We do not even have an arm s length relationship with the government...

    I am very proascii117d to be an employee of the BBC.

Sascii117re, it is propaganda - for Britain and for the BBC. Bascii117t she is right, is not she?