Ros Atkins on… The US climate conundrum

US President Joe Biden’s sweeping investment plan for jobs, education and social care has left some commentators comparing him to the Franklin D Roosevelt, said Dr Thomas Gift. Roosevelt’s New Deal economic plan helped pull the US out of recession in the 1930s, but Dr Gift, an associate professor, at the UCL Centre on US…

Weak governments on both the Israeli and Palestinian side are helping to drive the current conflict which could escalate further, James F Jeffrey, a former US ambassador to Syria, Iraq and Turkey has said. He told BBC World News that it was going to require a very complicated set of steps to de-escalate the violence….

The single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine should get its final approval in the United States later on Friday. If approved the US would be the first country in the world to do so. Infectious disease expert and adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Helen Talbot, told BBC World News that…

Reducing the hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militants to a story about Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas does not do the situation justice, the head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK has said. “This isn’t a confrontation between Netanyahu and Hamas, this as a confrontation that has lasted for 100 years, between…

Younger people may be offered alternative vaccines to the AstraZeneca jab, says Prof Paul Hunter.

Patience and diplomacy will be needed if we want to find the origins of coronavirus, Prof Dale Fisher, of Singapore’s National University Hospital, has said. His comments came as US President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to “redouble” efforts to investigate where the virus started, including the theory that it emerged from a laboratory in…