London, Oct 25, SPA -- The BBC World Service was expected toannounce Tuesday plans to launch an Arabic languagetelevision channel and expanded new media services such asonline video news bulletins in various languages, theGuardian and the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The reports said the new services require at least 25million pounds (US$44 million, ¤37 million) from within theBBC's current 239 million pound (US$425 million, ¤353million) budget, requiring reallocations that will cutradio broadcast service in 10 languages: Bulgarian,Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak,Slovene and Thai. Staff were to be informed of the changes at midday, The Associated Press quoted BBC spokeswoman Katie Byrne as saying.--SPA1432 Local Time 1132 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/298575