US mothers divided on vaccines for young children

Two commercial greenhouses powered by the waste heat generated from a nearby water treatment plant are growing crops which will supply UK shops. Fossil fuels are often used as a source of heat in conventional commercial greenhouses, so this method also reduces carbon emissions. BBC Click’s Jen Copestake, who visited the greenhouses in 2020 while…

Amid growing international concern about China’s human rights record, an unofficial tribunal in London is due to announce its findings on whether Chinese actions in the Xinjiang region amount to genocide. Erbakit Otarbay is one of an estimated one million Kazakhs, Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities held as part of a mass incarceration programme. He…

Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…

Ros Atkins looks at how Europe is getting to grips with its emissions problem. More on the climate summit The COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not rejected coronavirus lockdowns but has left it to individual states to impose measures from curfews to full lockdowns, the national spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shaina Nana Chudasama, has said. “Each state is given the choice to decide whether they want to impose a curfew,…

Protests, in Myanmar, also known as Burma, must continue until there is democracy and freedom, Hannah says. She told BBC World News many of the protesters were aged just 17 or 18. “I am scared,” she said. “But we still have to fight for the democracy we want. “Me and my fellow protesters will fight…