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World Service,30 Jan 2016,9 mins

Islamic State or Daesh?

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We return to an issue that has emerged as one of the hottest topics - how the BBC refers to the terrorist group based in Syria and Iraq. David Jordan, the BBC’s director of Editorial Policy, joins Rajan Datar to explain why the organisation is refusing to use the term daesh. Listener, Ziad al-Thawati from Bahrain explains why she disagrees with the BBC's stance

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