Mark Lowen
@marklowen
BBC News Correspondent and Presenter. Previously in Rome, Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade and lots in between. Dad. Heart belongs to a Portuguese. All views my own
Well this week has been quite an experience, detained by Turkish police while covering the anti-government protests and deported. Here’s my full story. Do take a read if you can - and thank you to everyone for kind messages and support: bbc.com/news/articles/…
📣Some news: After 10 months presenting OS on @bbcworldservice I’ll be swapping the radio studio for TV in September as I become a presenter/correspondent for our @BBCNews TV channel, streaming & on the day team, in the studio & in the field. A few more weeks with great OS first!
The hardest time I have lived through, says BBC Gaza journalist on struggle to feed family bbc.in/471mpWP
OS coming up @bbcworldservice @BBCSounds 16.00-18.00 London time. Tune in - and step up! (All will be revealed…)
“Ladies and gentlemen, I know our train is due to depart now but unfortunately we don’t currently have a driver. I’ve just called control and they’re trying to find one”. Typically wonderful service from @SW_Help
Tune in now to OS @bbcworldservice @BBCSounds as we unpack another turbulent week in the Middle East with our international editor, Jeremy Bowen @BowenBBC - we'll discuss Syria, Gaza, Israel, and take your questions
When I gave my 2 and a half year-old a bit of cheese tonight and she turned to me and said “nice cheese, Gromit”, my @aardman and Nick Park-loving heart melted.
Celebrating this guy, with this girl. Parabéns meu amor @PedroZegrePenim
"We knew that making and hard work was in the essence of the town." Wayne Hemingway, designer and co-founder of Red or Dead, explains to @marklowen where he got the idea for the National Festival of Making in Blackburn. #BBCWato
Excited to be making a presenting debut on @BBCWorldatOne today - the legendary WATO as we refer to it - on Radio 4 coming up at 1pm. Listen on your wireless or on @BBCSounds
Will be on @bbcworldservice with @marklowen at 12:30pm ET/ 5:30pm London to discuss the latest with Trump's megabill. Tune in!
💥🏳️🌈 Viktor Orbán banned Budapest Pride by law but didn’t dare use police to stop it. The result? A record-breaking crowd: the front of the march reached the end point in Buda while the back had barely left the start in Pest. 📸: Gábor Tenczer, Balázs Ivándi-Szabó @Telexhu
“Attendees face a €500 fine, organisers face up to one year in prison” - for walking through Budapest to say #LoveIsLove.
Hungary Pride to go ahead, defying Orban threat of 'legal consequences' bbc.in/4l7f6kJ
After 2 days in which Israel said it was blocking aid entering Gaza, accusing Hamas of stealing it, we just saw these trucks entering Gaza through a side road, not via the official Kerem Shalom crossing. They had no registration plates. Likely to be Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Pretty loud thud of artillery in the last few minutes across the border in Gaza - black smoke rising - as this war grinds on into its 631st day. Israel and the US may be talking up the prospects of ceasefire - but intractable issues with Hamas remain
We’re at Kerem Shalom border crossing from Israel to Gaza, where there are no aid trucks crossing - aid workers on the ground tell us of catastrophic situation, and Gazans queuing for aid are still being killed almost every day. We’re live today @BBCNews @BBCWorld
Edi Rama 🇦🇱 at the NATO summit in The Hague: you people are so sartorially boring.
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Just when you thought your jaw couldn't drop any further... Donald Trump releases a private message sent by NATO Sec General Mark Rutte - with a very big claim, and written, it would seem, in the most Trumpian language (NATO has confirmed to BBC it is genuine). What a world.
