German election: Young candidate MPs on climate and taxes

There is a lot of support for Donald Trump to become a future kingmaker, Greg Swenson, of Republicans Overseas UK, says. The former president made his first major speech since leaving office, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Florida, over the weekend, hinting he might run again. Mr Swenson told BBC World News Mr…

The German climate change campaigner Luisa Neubauer says that awareness about the “climate catastrophe” is “higher than ever” among Germans as they prepare to go the polls. The 25-year-old activist, who is one of the organisers of school strikes for the climate in Germany, told BBC World News that more than 80 per cent of…

Iraq is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth. In Baghdad, traffic police sergeant Sa’d Saddam Abdulhasan is responsible for one of the city’s busiest junctions. He keeps the city moving but to do so he must work in 50C heat, while standing on black asphalt. Meanwhile, farmer Sheikh Kazem fights to continue farming…

The shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan has left everyone shocked and saddened, a resident of the city has said. Rezeda Kotdusova, whose husband works in a building next to the school where the attack happened, told BBC World News what her partner had seen. A 19-year-old suspect has been detained….

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….

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Apple unveiled new iPhone 13 handsets which come with Cinematic Mode, a portrait-style option for shooting videos with depth of field. TikTok launched a range of mental health features, with some support resources linked to the search term “suicide”. Australian…