The BBC World Service airs Newshour Extra: The Ebola Response Friday, December 5 at 0206 ET. Outlook Arts will be dropped to accommodate. Newshour Extra: The Ebola Response will air live and is available to download from the American Public Media Exchange in Content Depot on Friday, December 5. The program is available to air through December 11. This program follows the normal BBC World Service Clock.

Program duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds) or 59 minutes including the news bulletins, billboards & promos.

Description: Owen Bennett-Jones will be joined by a panel of the BBC’s expert correspondents in West Africa and beyond for a special program assessing the international response to Ebola in West Africa.

How well have international organizations and governments reacted? Has the involvement of China, the United States, Cuba and the EU forged new alliances? And what are the challenges of the next six months?

Panelists include BBC global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar who has just returned from West Africa.