São Paulo Governor João Doria has described President Jair Bolsonaro as a “crazy guy” who is making the country’s coronavirus situation worse.
Speaking to the BBC, he said Brazil’s health system was “on the verge of collapse” amid a spike in cases and deaths.
“Brazil is fighting two viruses – the coronavirus and the Bolsonaro virus,” he said.
European countries pausing use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab were risking the lives of their citizens and “throwing caution to the wind”, Dr Anthony Cox, who researches drug safety at the University of Birmingham has said. He told BBC World News: “What we seem to have had is like a cascade of bad decision making…
Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Customers can now buy a Tesla car with cryptocurrency Bitcoin, company chief Elon Musk announces Nintendo and Niantic, the companies behind Pokemon Go, announce a long-term deal to collaborate on augmented reality apps Microscopic robots deliver drugs into the brains…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: After 27 years Jeff Bezo steps down as the head of Amazon Footage of the world’s first 3D printed school, based in Malawi, is released – the school opened its doors last month A Belgian artist creates an artificial intelligence…
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….
There is a bigger context to the current hostilities between Israel and Gaza, the political analyst and former spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, Nour Odeh, has said. She told BBC World News: “We have to look at the wider picture. We cannot just say that Hamas needs to stop firing rockets. We have to ask…
Chris Fox looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: A legal challenge which could ban UK government ministers from using self-destructing WhatsApp or Signal text messages for official business is launched Wine experts discover whether a bottle of wine which has spent a year in space tastes any different…
