George Alagiah

**George Maxwell Alagiah** (/ˌæləˈɡaɪə/; 22 ga Nuwamba 1955 - 24 ga Yulin 2023) ya kasance mai karanta labarai na Burtaniya, ɗan jarida kuma mai gabatar da talabijin na BBC . Daga 2007 har zuwa 2022, ya kasance mai gabatar da BBC News a Six kuma babban mai gabatar da *GMT* a BBC World News daga ƙaddamar da shi a 2010 har zuwa 2014. An nada shi Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE) a cikin 2008 New Year Honours .

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi George Maxwell Alagiah a Colombo, Ceylon, a ranar 22 ga Nuwamba 1955.   Iyayensa, Donald Ratnarajah Alagiah (c. 1925-2013), injiniyan farar hula, daga baya mai ba da shawara kan aikin injiniya na kiwon lafiya na Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya, da kuma Therese Karunaiamma (née Santiapillai; ta mutu a 1996), Ceylon Tamils ne. A shekara ta 1961, iyayensa suka koma Ghana a Yammacin Afirka, inda ya sami karatun firamare a Christ the King International School. Yana da 'yan'uwa mata huɗu. Ya yi karatun sakandare a Portsmouth" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St John's College, Portsmouth">Kwalejin St John, makarantar Roman Katolika mai zaman kanta a Portsmouth, Ingila, bayan haka ya yi karatun siyasa a Kwaleji ta Van Mildert, Jami'ar Durham. Yayinda yake a Durham, ya rubuta kuma ya zama editan jaridar dalibai *Palatinate* kuma ya kasance jami'in sabbatical na Durham Students' Union.

## Farkon aiki
A cikin shekarun 1980s, bayan ya bar jami'a, ya yi aiki a mujallar Kudancin, ya zama Editan Afirka. 

Alagiah ya koma gidan kakansa na asali a Sri Lanka bayan Girgizar kasa da tsunami ta Tekun Indiya ta 2004 don bincika lalacewar. An lalata tsohon gidan dangin, amma ya sami damar gane tsohuwar rijiyar inda ya yi wasa tare da 'yan uwansa mata, kodayake rijiyar ta zama ba za a iya ceto ba.

## Ayyukan watsa shirye-shirye
Alagiah ya shiga BBC a shekarar 1989 bayan shekaru bakwai a aikin jarida tare da South Magazine .  Kafin ya zama mai gabatarwa, ya kasance wakilin Ci Gaban Duniya, wanda ke zaune a London, sannan kuma wakilin Kudancin Afirka a Johannesburg. A matsayinsa na daya daga cikin manyan wakilan kasashen waje na BBC, ya ba da rahoto game da abubuwan da suka faru daga kisan kare dangi a Rwanda zuwa halin da Larabawa Marsh ke ciki a kudancin Iraki, da kuma yakin basasa a Afghanistan, Laberiya, Saliyo, Kosovo, da Somalia.

A cikin 1999, Alagiah ya zama mataimakin mai ba da labari na *BBC One O'Clock News* da BBC Nine O'Clow News. Ya kasance mai gabatar da BBC Four News tun daga ƙaddamar da shi a shekara ta 2002; daga baya aka sake sake gabatar da shirin a matsayin The World sannan kuma wani fitowar World News Today. A watan Janairun 2003 ya shiga BBC Six O'Clock News, wanda ya gabatar tare da Sophie Raworth har zuwa Oktoba 2005, kuma tare da Natasha Kaplinsky har zuwa Oktoba 2007.  A watan Disamba na shekara ta 2007, ya zama mai gabatar da labarai na Six O'Clock News . A shekara ta 2006, ya fara gabatar da Labaran *Duniya* A Yau a BBC World News da BBC Two, wanda aka sake masa suna *GMT* a ranar 1 ga Fabrairu 2010. Ya bayyana na karshe a cikin shirin a shekarar 2014.  Ya kasance mai gabatar da agaji a BBC News a Ten, yana gabatar da galibi Litinin zuwa Alhamis lokacin da manyan masu gabatar da Huw Edwards da Fiona Bruce ba su samuwa ba. A watan Oktoba na shekara ta 2011, Alagiah ya gabatar da Mixed Britannia, jerin shirye-shirye guda uku game da tarihin auren launin fata a Ingila. 

Wani kwararre a kan Afirka da kasashe masu tasowa, Alagiah ya yi hira, da sauransu, da Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, tsohon Sakatare Janar na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya Kofi Annan da Shugaba Robert Mugabe na Zimbabwe.[1] Sauran shirye-shiryensa da fasalulluka sun haɗa da rahotanni game da dalilin da ya sa mataki mai tabbatarwa a Amurka shine "Lost Cause", don shirin Assignment, yakin kisan kare dangi na Saddam Hussein akan Kurdawa na arewacin Iraki don shirin BBC Newsnight da kuma rahoto game da taron karshe na tsoffin soji na Dunkirk.

## Kyaututtuka da sha'awa
A shekara ta 2000, Alagiah ya kasance daga cikin tawagar BBC wacce ta tattara lambar yabo ta BAFTA don ɗaukar hoto game da rikicin Kosovo.  Ya lashe kyaututtuka da yawa ciki har da *Rahoton Kasa da Kasa mafi Kyau* a Royal Television Society a 1993, kuma a 1994 ya kasance babban wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Amnesty International UK Media Awards .  An nada shi Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE) a cikin 2008 New Year Honours don hidimomi ga aikin jarida.  

Ya bayyana a bukukuwan wallafe-wallafen sun hada da Cheltenham, Keswick, Hay-on-Wye da London, kuma ya yi magana a The Royal Geographical Society, Royal Society of Arts da Royal Overseas League . Ya kasance a cikin kwamitin Royal Shakespeare Company