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During his tenure he has made stringent cuts to the world news reporting staff and closed a string of foreign language services including the BBC's Albanian, Serbian, Portuguese and Caribbean English outlets.

Hague in return pointed out that BBC management had originally proposed to cut 13 of the global news broadcaster's foreign language services, only for this to be vetoed by the government and reduced to five.

For that matter, I would be happy to see chunks of the DFID budget steered towards the preservation of foreign language services earmarked for closure by the BBC World Service, as some MPs recently suggested.It is also true, as development-sceptics argue, that development assistance is a very blunt instrument.

(Radio is, as it has long been, the only medium that gives us immediate access to what the rest of the planet is doing and thinking, simply because every country of any size operates a foreign-language service).

The foreign secretary is to retain a veto over closures of World Service foreign-language services.

The BBC announced in January that up to 650 World Service jobs – about 25% of the total workforce – would be axed, in a cost-cutting initiative that also involved the closure of several foreign-language services.

Questions of objectivity have always dogged the Voice of America because it is a government agency and because its foreign-language services have always had to deal with echoes of homeland conflicts when they recruited broadcasters multiethnic states.

There have been yearlong cultural exchanges with many countries; the opening of hundreds of language teaching centers known as Confucius Institutes; new foreign-language services from official media like Xinhua and CCTV; and new interest in foreign platforms like the Kennedy Center and the Europalia festival in Brussels.

Moving beyond the fourth grade, this extraordinary young teacher embraced other opportunities at the school: chaperoning high school students on trips for foreign language and service learning, taking on the high school cheerleaders and making them a force to be reckoned with, and heading up the 4-6 math department, among much more.

It is "one for ten", representing a bleak outlook for the foreign language radio services.

Last Tuesday the government's foreign language news services, read by foreign reporters and people abroad, briefly announced that one man and four women, whom they described as Falun Gong adherents from the city of Kaifeng, had set themselves on fire in the square in central Beijing that day and that one woman had died.