''Your World Today'' is a daily international news-magazine

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that airs on

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, a sister cable-news channel to

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. The show serves as a morning breakfast show for viewers in the

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region.

Production and format

Your World Today initially aired for up to four hours per day. It aired every day between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m

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. However, following the creation of programmes such as '' The Brief'', ''Prism'' and ''

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'', the weekday edition was reduced to sixty minutes, while the weekend edition aired for thirty minutes. An additional edition of the program aired on Saturdays from 12:00 p.m., for thirty minutes. Based at

's world headquarters in

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, Georgia, the program featured reports worldwide by CNN correspondents and affiliates. It included regular business updates from

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and

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, sports and weather updates as well as covering all the live and breaking news. In 2019, CNNI relaunched the show with anchors Isa Soares and Cyril Vanier. The program is now based in the network's

bureau. It airs from 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m BST with cut-ins for '' World Sport'' and is aimed as a morning news program for viewers in the Asia-Pacific region.

Anchors in 2019

* Isa Soares * Cyril Vanier

Anchors in 2009

* Jonathan Mann *

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(Weekends)

Previous Anchors

* Hala Gorani *

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* Jim Clancy *

(Weekdays) * Ralitsa Vassileva

Simulcast on CNN

An edition of the program in the 12:00 p.m. time slot was previously simulcast on CNN, making it one of the few shows in cable television to be broadcast in over 200 countries and territories. In September 2008, '' CNN Newsroom'' took over the program's hour timeslot on CNN.

2020

In the midst of the

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, the program has been placed off air and replaced with ''

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''.

Replacement

The program was replaced by ''

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'' and ''

'' as part of CNN International's relaunch in September 2009.

References

External links

cnn.com/CNN/Programs/ywt
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