Afghanistan: 100 days of Taliban rule

Kabul airport has become the epicentre of the crisis in Afghanistan, with many thousands seeking to flee the country after the Taliban swept to power last week. The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet witnesses the atmosphere on the tarmac as men, women and children are evacuated from their homeland.

A ransomware attack on the US Colonial Pipeline was not a surprise, as experts have been warning of increased attacks, Oxford Information Labs chief executive Emily Taylor has said. She told BBC World News: “Experts have been warning about increased rates of ransomware attacks and also the vulnerability of critical infrastructure such as this pipeline…

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Marki-Zay has said if he wins the election, he would “probably” rescind the 2018 law criminalising lawyers and activists who help asylum seekers. He told Stephen Sackur, of BBC News’s Hardtalk programme, he would have to look at the details but there was “no simple answer”. Watch the full interview on…

Dr Sasa, Myanmar’s UN envoy, appointed by the disbanded parliament, says the country’s military is looking to cause as much pain and suffering as possible to retain control. Dr Sasa, fled Myanmar, also known as Burma on 1 February, the day of the military coup. He is asking the world to stand with the people…

Afghanistan’s former central bank governor has said that he will not return to the country despite assurances from the Taliban that former officials can return with amnesty to their jobs. Ajmal Ahmady told BBC World News that the Taliban had been looking for him, knocking on doors at properties where he had previously lived. Mr…

Two commercial greenhouses powered by the waste heat generated from a nearby water treatment plant are growing crops which will supply UK shops. Fossil fuels are often used as a source of heat in conventional commercial greenhouses, so this method also reduces carbon emissions. BBC Click’s Jen Copestake, who visited the greenhouses in 2020 while…