ABC World News - International Newscasts

International Newscasts

ABC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the twenty-four-hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. This includes ABC World News. Also, in the Middle East, it is broadcast free to air on MBC 4.

In the U.K., the program is shown at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday-Friday on BBC News. BBC News is frequently simulcast by BBC Two (and, less frequently, BBC One) at this time, meaning the program was broadcast on analogue terrestrial television in many parts of the U.K. The newscast was aired on delay in part because of the need to remove advertisements; the BBC's domestic channels are commercial-free.The program was replaced on the 14th June 2011 by Asia Business Report and Sport Today But it later returned on 20 August 2012.

In Australia, WNT airs every morning at 10:30 am. AET on Sky News Australia. In New Zealand, WNT is shown at 5:10 pm on Sky News New Zealand. In Hong Kong, it was broadcast live on TVB Pearl daily at 07:30 until 08:00 HKT until 31 May 2009 and replaced by NBC Nightly News. In Japan it airs on NHK BS 1 as part of the weekday morning Ohayo Sekai (Wake Up To The World) program, and in clip form in the ABC News Shower English language education program.

In Belize's Great Belize Television carries all editions of World News Tonight' 'on weekday at 8:00 pm and weekend at 7:00 pm.

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