Afghanistan: ‘A red signal for the entire globe’
Afghan politician Shukria Barakzai on her fears as the Taliban continues to advance in Afghanistan.
The presence of far-right candidates will mean that the stakes will be very high in next year’s French presidential election, the country’s finance minister has said. Bruno Le Maire told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that the country had “questions about our own identity” and the kind of role it could play on the international stage…
The advance of the Taliban across Afghanistan represents a betrayal and catastrophic failure by the US, UK and Nato, says Rory Stewart, a former UK International Development Secretary. He told BBC World News that Western involvement in Afghanistan had involved around 2,500 troops supporting Afghan forces and air support. That support had confined the Taliban…
President Joe Biden will be clear about America’s red lines, when he meets his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, later this week, after a Nato summit, Lt Gen Ben Hodges has said. The retired US military commander said it was the 60th anniversary of a disastrous meeting between former President John F Kennedy and former Soviet…
US Vice-President Kamala Harris is due to hold talks with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute told BBC World News he thought both sides would be trying to figure out what the framework was going to be for a new relationship. “When Donald Trump was…
A sea life centre has created a web app to help visitors identify species within its 65,000 strong marine life population. The Lost Chambers Aquarium app uses image recognition. The app tells users information about where the animal can be found in the wild, its endangered status and planned or ongoing conservation projects. BBC Click’s…
A lack of power and funding has limited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) capacity to deal with pandemics, the co-chair of a panel looking at the response to the coronavirus pandemic has said. Helen Clark, from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, told BBC World News that the WHO was caught in the…