'UN intervention needed over Myanmar'

Sarit, a 26-year-old Israeli student living in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip has told BBC World News what it is like living through the Israel-Gaza conflict. She said she felt sorry for the citizens of Gaza, but Israelis have been bombed for 20 years. “We know this is exactly why this is being done…

Newscast’s Adam Fleming talks climate change with the Duke of Cambridge at Kensington Palace ahead of the inaugural Earthshot Prize – his ambitious plan to showcase those working to save the planet. The full Prince William interview airs on 14 October 2021. Watch BBC One (at 23:35), BBC News Channel and BBC iPlayer. Listen on…

China’s President Xi Jinping had a “hidden message” about Taiwan in his speech marking 100 years of the Communist Party, Prof Shaun Breslin has said. The author of China Risen told BBC World News that China’s leader was warning other countries to steer clear of issues about Taiwan. “I think there is also a hidden…

Ingrida Simonyte, the prime minister of Lithuania, has criticised Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s statement about diverting a flight to Minsk on Sunday. “It is so complicated for anyone who believes in the rule of law, institutions and the Western democracies to believe in anything Mr Lukashenko is saying,” she told BBC World News. “I think…

As the band release Voyage, Benny and Bjorn speak to the BBC about being compared to their old music.

Long-time democracy campaigner and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has said he is very concerned for the health of Alexei Navalny who is three weeks into a prison hunger strike. He told BBC World News: “We understand that the West cannot save Navalny, but it can seal his fate by simply ignoring him.” It was…