Israel-Gaza conflict: ‘There is no magic fix here’
A premature ceasefire will not solve the problem, the senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister says.
A UN Security Council delegation should go to Myanmar, human rights campaigner Debbie Stothard says.
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: YouTube announces it will remove videos containing vaccine misinformation for all approved vaccines, expanding on its ban of false claims about Covid-19 jabs A new law to stop workers being fired if they are not meeting productivity targets set by…
Israel’s military was trying to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, but Hamas was effectively using Palestinian civilians as human shields, the Israeli Defence Forces spokesperson has said. “Hamas, purposely embeds its military infrastructure within the civilian population creating an almost impossible situation where they are using Palestinian civilians as their human shields while they fire…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has highlighted racism as an issue in the UK, Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, political correspondent JOE.co.uk has told BBC World News. When you turn on the television there will often be white people saying we are one of the least racist countries in the world, she explained….
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has expressed her concern about the ongoing violence between Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs in the country. “Jerusalem is a city of peace and a city of co-existence,” she told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur. “What we have seen this week is actually the result of a horrible incitement of…
During the 1980s the BBC ran the Computer Literacy Project exploring the world of computing. A series of home computers known as BBC Micros were created and viewers were taught how to program them. The project helped inspire a generation of coders. The BBC’s Alex Humphrey’s visits the National Computing Museum to find out more….