Maria Ressa
On World Press Freedom Day, the journalist discusses attacks on female reporters and disinformation.
Monaco Ocean Week, which showcases the latest projects, initiatives and activism for the protection of global marine ecosystems, has been running as a virtual event this week. One of the organisers of the event, Prince Albert II of Monaco, told BBC World News his interest in marine conservation dated back to his great-great-grandfather.
Houses have been buried by hot ash after a volcano erupted in Indonesia on Saturday. Mount Semeru on the island of Java engulfed villages, submerging vehicles and leaving glimpses of rooftops behind. Fourteen people are known to have died and dozens were injured, authorities said. Watch the BBC’s Valdya Baraputri, surrounded by buried buildings, describe…
Several European countries have paused the use of a coronavirus vaccine over the safety concerns, but delays to the rollout of coronavirus vaccine programmes will have an economic fallout, a professor of economics at Koç University, has said. When there is a slowdown in vaccination programmes people who are not immunised will need to minimise…
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…
Thirty years ago, the BBC launched its first international television channel. Originally called World Service Television, the channel is now known as BBC World News and reaches 112 million people a week. Jamie Angus, controller of BBC News output and commissioning told BBC World News that globally television audiences were rising because there was a…
The European Union approved the use of the Johnson & Johnson’s single dose coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, making it the fourth jab to be used in the EU. Johnson and Johnson’s chief scientific officer Paul Stoffels told BBC World News that they would start delivering the vaccine to the EU in the second half of…