Olivia Lace-Evans

Snr Video Journalist, BBC Foreign News | Documentary filmmaker and @columbiajourn alum | London via New York & DC

[Mark Lowen @marklowen]

📣 Some news about me:
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love.
Journalism is not a crime.
Here’s the BBC’s statement:

[Yogita Limaye @yogital]

The BBC is spending the day with women across #Afghanistan to understand what life is like living under relentless restrictions brought in by the Taliban government since 2021 @AakritiThapar @JackyMartens @floradrury Follow here - https://t.co/Ir3bXY4bja

[Ben Tavener @BBCBenTavener]

“This is the moment. In future there may be no such moment...”

A variety of voices we’ve spoken to today - including those caught up in election violence - as both sides claim victory in Georgia’s 🇬🇪 crucial vote on its future in Europe

https://t.co/IPdZpHnpOC

[Jonathan Beale @bealejonathan]

British Army racism apology to black ‘poster girl’ soldier - BBC News https://t.co/Fn10gEBIkk

[andrew harding @AndrewWJHarding]

Back in beautiful Georgia, 30 years after I first moved here as a young freelance journalist. Plenty has changed for the better. But you can't change geography: https://t.co/j65x5hmF5L

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

The rise of China is the defining challenge of our times - how far to co-operate, compete or confront.

@gordoncorera investigates in Shadow War: China and the West.

🎧 Series begins today at 13:45 on @BBCRadio4 and on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/kXcMR8Xh9E

[Gordon Corera @gordoncorera]

The escaped dissident still pursued decades on by China - the remarkable story of Yan Xiong and Operation Yellow Bird. More to come starting Monday in the series Shadow War: China and the West

https://t.co/5cXPyPQqo7

[Olivia Lace-Evans @OLaceEvans]

As Canada debates whether it's ready to allow assisted dying for those suffering solely from a mental illness, @EloiseAlanna and I followed one man - John - fighting for his right to die. Watch our film on the channel this weekend, or on iplayer now https://t.co/LYUeKPjpaT

[Lucy Williamson @LucyWilliamson]

Gate 96: where food and war cross Gaza’s border fence
With ⁦@edavebull⁩ ⁦@OLaceEvans⁩ ⁦@Timfacey⁩ https://t.co/apKpWcS0Wp

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

A terrible war grinds on .. important to keep hearing stories from #Ukraine… great to work with @OLaceEvans @Anastasiia_Lev Jonny Gledhill

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

Russians are paying tribute to Alexei Navalny at the Solovetsky stone, brought to Moscow from the Gulag in the last year of the USSR

It is a monument to all those wrongly imprisoned & killed during Stalin's political repressions

The choice is very symbolic

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

#Navalny #Russia

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

.. worries about wars .. #Ukraine -#Gaza #Sudan and more ⁦@antonioguterres⁩ sits down with ⁦@JosepBorrellF⁩ ⁦@MunSecConf⁩ #Munich

[Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC]

Powerful eye witness account from an American nurse who just left Gaza

[Caroline Hawley @carolinehawley]

A new life amidst so much death - the peaceful face of a baby far too young to know the horror he's been born into

[Marianna Spring @mariannaspring]

When two 4-year-old boys were killed - one Palestinian, one Israeli - their deaths were denied on social media.

I’ve investigated what happened to Omar and Omer, tracking down family, friends & witnesses, distressed by posts. Symbolic of information war. https://t.co/2CKrM6Igw5

[Marianna Spring @mariannaspring]

What connects amateur sleuths at crime scenes, anti-social behaviour in UK schools and riots in France? For this BBC Three investigation, I track down users, victims and ex-employees, plus crunch numbers to investigate TikTok 'Frenzies' and their impact.

BBC Three Thursday 9PM!

[Marianna Spring @mariannaspring]

At extreme end, there were conspiracy theory driven riots at US Capitol and a German coup attempt. What is happening in the UK? iPlayer doc with the pod too.

By @OLaceEvans with Andrew Bryson, Paul Mitchell, Aoife McKenna, Rend Shamma & @jonnymcguigan https://t.co/VmSUXQSo2u

[Marianna Spring @mariannaspring]

Overwhelmed by how many are listening to Radio 4’s Marianna in Conspiracyland! Brilliant to see its a hit (including with trolls)

I expose radicalisation of UK conspiracy movement, investigating a conspiracy theory paper & exposing connections and harm. https://t.co/oWTj1hj59Q