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Mexico's
president to face questions from BBC radio and news online audience
President
Vicente Fox of Mexico will take questions live from internet users
and callers around the world when he appears on the international
multi-media programme Talking Point on Wednesday (11 June
2003).
Talking
Point will be broadcast live in audio online at 1915 BST (7.15pm
UK time) on www.bbcnews.com/talkingpoint
on Wednesday and broadcast on BBC World Service on Sunday (15 June)
at 1500 BST (3.00pm UK time).
Among
the many topics which will be put to the Mexican president are questions
about the country's relationship with its largest trading partner,
the USA, asylum and immigration issues and the world post-Iraq.
Talking
Point will be presented by Mike Wooldridge.
Talking
Point is an award-winning multimedia phone-in programme from the
BBC.
Other
leading figures who have recently taken part in the webcast include
Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel from South Africa, President Vladimir
Putin of Russia, King Abdullah of Jordan and President Obasanjo
of Nigeria.
Notes
to
Editors
In
the UK, World Service is available on 648 MW in Southern England.
In
addition, overnight on BBC Radio 4 and via digital radio, digital
satellite (Astra satellite, channel 865), Freeview (channel 80)
and the internet at bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice.
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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