The BBC World Service is closing ten of its radio frequencies and starting an Arabic-language TV news channel.

Radio broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai are being discontinued due to falling listenership or because the countries are, or will be, shortly in the European Union.

This decision will cut about 236 jobs but, on the upside, will create 201 others for the new TV channel.