Rajini Vaidyanathan is an award-winning BBC presenter. She is a host of Newshour, the flagship news programme on the BBC World Service, and an anchor on the BBC News Channel, broadcasting to global audiences. She also presents network television bulletins in the UK. A former foreign correspondent, Rajini has reported from more than 25 countries, with extensive experience across South Asia and North America. She has been based in South Asia, Washington DC and Westminster, and has covered the elections of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi. She has interviewed presidents, prime ministers, changemakers and other leading figures from politics, business and culture. Her reporting has ranged from elections and geopolitics to climate change, migration, terrorism, mass shootings, natural disasters and social change.
