World

We spoke to journalist Giulia Saudelli, who is in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and she gave us the latest update.

Wildfires are once again ravaging the Western United States of America. Currently there are over 70 burning in multiple states – including one that has already burned over 200,000 acres in Oregon.

At least 42 people have died and dozens are missing in Germany after catastrophic floods in the west of the country.

We spoke to a reporter with South African TV station ENCA, Masego Rahlaga, who was in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where police were retrieving items looted from nearby stores.

At least 72 people have been killed in days of violence in South Africa, fuelled by long-running anger over poverty and inequality and sparked by last week’s imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.  

Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller has been looking into the industry that’s been called “the biggest natural resource heist in modern history.”

In Iraq, at least 92 people have lost their lives in a devastating fire at a hospital ward treating coronavirus patients.

We spoke to Michael Wolff in his first UK interview on the book and I started by asking him why on earth Mr Trump allowed himself to be interviewed again in the wake of the capitol riots.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Cuba to protest against the desperate economic crisis, in the country’s biggest demonstrations for decades.

In South Africa, six people have been killed and more than 200 arrested as violence escalates  over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.

This report is from Indonesia, which the International Red Cross says is “on the edge of catastrophe” as its health system is inundated by another wave of the disease.

In Africa just two percent of people are vaccinated. It has just seen the worst surge in Covid cases since the pandemic began, with cases now doubling every 18 days.

Boris Johnson has insisted that Britain is not abandoning its commitment to Afghanistan, while announcing that most British troops have already left the country.

Japan’s ill-fated Olympic games have suffered another blow after Japanese spectators were banned from events in and around Tokyo. 

I spoke to Lindsay Meiman, a spokesperson for 350.org – an international environmental organisation that aims to end the era of fossil fuels.