World

In this podcast, we speak to two Australian Channel 4 News journalists – one stuck in New South Wales and one stuck in London – and ask about the pluses and minuses of the Australian model, and whether a slow roll out of the vaccine may mean the borders are closed for a lot longer.

The United Nations has launched a global funding appeal for St Vincent and the Grenadines to help the country’s recovery from ongoing volcanic eruptions.

With India recording over 200,000 new Covid cases every day, the country is firmly in the grips of a second wave that’s proving much worse than the first.

The government here has confirmed the latest data for vaccinations in the last 24-hour period.

The finance minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has told Channel 4 News his country’s recovery from a volcanic eruption could cost half the nation’s GDP.

We speak to Maria Lipman, Moscow-based senior associate at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University, and Sir Tony Brenton, UK ambassador to Russia for four years until 2008.

Lawyers for the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say his health is deteriorating, despite being transferred to a prison hospital earlier today.

It’s nine days since the volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent erupted spewing ash six miles into the air. Thousands of people were evacuated to safer parts of the island. But even in the south there’s no getting away from the volcanic dust which covers almost everything. There’s now a shortage of water…

The number of people who have died across the world is now more than three million, according to Johns Hopkins University in America who have tallied this number since the beginning of last year. This comes as the latest 24-hour government figures show nearly 120,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday.…

Caught in a time loop – a young Black man is forced to relive a deadly encounter with a racist police officer.

There have been more volcanic eruptions on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, with thousands of people seeking safety in government shelters.

President Biden made another major foreign policy call this week declaring that all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September this year.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for his role in the mass pro-democracy demonstrations which swept the territory in 2019.

Bodycam video footage has been released in Chicago showing the moment a police officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy.

Attacks are on the rise across the African continent; a consequence of poverty, domestic grievances new and old, and Africa’s resource “curse”.