‘There were no avatars like me so we made a game’

Several European countries have paused their use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots in a small number of individuals who have received the jab. But lives have been put at risk by not giving people the vaccine, the director of the vaccine centre at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…

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….

Democratic US Congressman Tom Malinowski has warned the war over Afghanistan will continue. The tragedy of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan had been set in motion by the Trump administration and he regretted President Biden had carried the policy through, Mr Malinowski said. But neither administration had levelled with the American people. “They keep saying…

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…

The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has described the Taliban as his “brothers” in an exclusive interview with the BBC. Speaking to the BBC’s Yalda Hakim, Mr Karzai was pressed on when girls and women would be able to go back into education and work. He said he had had conversations about this and…

Film-maker Ed Accura’s second film, Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel looks at the issues of racial stereotypes and barriers to swimming. Figures from 2020 show that 95% percent of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim. He tells BBC World News why he made the film and what he wants…