The charity Save the Children is calling for an immediate de-escalation of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
In Jerusalem Save the Children’s Jason Lee told BBC World News: “In every conflict or escalation today we see that children are disproportionately affected…
“We have numbers of children being killed, maimed. This cycle will continue unless we take immediate action on all sides to immediately de-escalate.
Several European countries have paused the use of a coronavirus vaccine over the safety concerns, but delays to the rollout of coronavirus vaccine programmes will have an economic fallout, a professor of economics at Koç University, has said. When there is a slowdown in vaccination programmes people who are not immunised will need to minimise…
India has seen more Covid cases in the last seven days than any other country as it battles its second wave. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with relatives begging for beds and oxygen for loved ones – now crematoriums are also running out of space. One man who lost his wife and unborn child on the…
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Google’s sister firm, Sidewalk Labs, cancels a smart-city project to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland, Oregon Boston Dynamics criticises an art installation that will allow people to control a version of the firm’s robot…
Thirty years ago, the BBC launched its first international television channel. Originally called World Service Television, the channel is now known as BBC World News and reaches 112 million people a week. Jamie Angus, controller of BBC News output and commissioning told BBC World News that globally television audiences were rising because there was a…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Apple unveiled new iPhone 13 handsets which come with Cinematic Mode, a portrait-style option for shooting videos with depth of field. TikTok launched a range of mental health features, with some support resources linked to the search term “suicide”. Australian…
Alexander Matheou, the Asia Pacific director of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says aid workers are facing intimidation and attacks in Myanmar, also known as Burma. He told BBC World News that more than 30 incidents on health workers had been recorded although most of the Myanmar Red Cross activity…
