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The UN's refugee agency estimates 100,000 Ukrainians have fled their homes so far, seeking safety from the Russian invasion. Many of them are crossing into Poland. The Polish government is setting up reception centers and hospitals to help new arrivals. In early February, Poland said it would accept up to 1 million Ukrainian refugees. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to Agnieszka Kosowicz, who...

Over the past 48 hours, thousands of people have been attempting to leave Kyiv as Russia bombs parts of the capital. Journalist Volodymyr Solohub is one of those people. He speaks with Marco Werman from Lviv, in western Ukraine.

This morning, in part of his speech, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed people in Russia. He praised Russian citizens who are protesting against Russia's war with Ukraine. Host Marco Werman speaks with Elena Chernenko, a foreign affairs correspondent with the Kommersant newspaper in Moscow. In recent days, she organized an open letter signed by journalists and experts in Russia, con...

As Russian troops closed in on the capital Kyiv, Ukraine's military deployed combat vehicles in the city. Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the Ukrainian military to rise up and overthrow the government in Kyiv, as Russian officials said their troops captured a key airfield outside of the capital. Host Marco Werman speaks with reporter Jessica Golloher who's in Kyiv.

Host Marco Werman has the stories of three different women across Ukraine scrambling to find a path to safety for themselves and their families.

Next week, leaders will meet at the U-N Environment Assembly in Nairobi to discuss, for the first time, a global agreement to reduce plastic pollution. They say an international effort must work in tandem with national and local efforts to reduce plastic waste that ends up in the environment. Ghana is one of a handful of countries that's launched a national plastic pollution plan backed by the Wor...

Russian diplomats have been working to rally support across Latin America, as the crisis in Ukraine unfolds. President Vladimir Putin welcomed his Argentinian and Brazilian counterparts recentlyin Moscow, while top Russian diplomats visited Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports.

Some US military observers see the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a sort of “shock and awe” effort aimed at cowing a possible Ukrainian resistance. But retired Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack, a former US Defense Attaché in Moscow, tells The World’s Marco Werman why he thinks Russian troops may ultimately have a hard time stabilizing an occupied Ukraine.

Facebook has depended on a contracting company called Sama in Kenya to moderate banned and graphic content on their platform all over Africa. Sama paid these employees between $1.50 and $2.20 an hour. Many could barely cover the basic necessities with those wages. They also struggled with PTSD from viewing graphic videos and images for hours on end. Marco Werman speaks with Daniel Motaung, a worke...

"These are among the darkest hours of Europe since the Second World War," Josep Borrell, the European Union foreign affairs chief said today following news of Russia's attack on Ukraine. US President Joe Biden vowed to hold Russia accountable for its "premeditated war." Markus Ziener, senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, talks with host Marco Werman about the response that Europe...

Early Thursday morning, Russia began a full-fledged assault on Ukraine. Multiple cities and military bases across Ukraine are under fire as part of Russia's military offensive, far beyond the eastern Donbas region. In Kyiv, residents woke up to the sounds of blasts in and around their city. Host Marco Werman speaks with Kyiv based journalist, Volodymyr Solohub.

An unsuspecting German shepherd named Roky, in Costa Rica, was evicted when his little shelter was hit by a small meteorite in 2019. Roky’s house sold today for more than $40,000 at Christie's annual auction of rare and unusual meteorites from space. Also for sale were pieces of Mars and the moon and space rocks. Marco Werman has the story. 

The Comcaac Indigenous tribe in northern Mexico has long battled severe water shortages, but climate change is making the problem worse. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently visited the community and promised to build more plants to desalinate sea water, but some members oppose the solution. Michael Fox reports from Punta Chueca on the challenge of finding fresh water in desert land.

National elections in the Philippines are in May, and campaigns are in full gear. A prerequisite for running for office in the Philippines is a catchy jingle. Ashley Westerman reports on the history of this electoral tradition and how candidates are using music to sway voters today.

Can a story about Afghanistan be about more than war, hunger and misery? The directors of “Three Songs for Benazir,” nominated for an Oscar, think so. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

New US sanctions target Russia’s sovereign debt and two large Russian financial institutions. But critics say they’ll be ineffective. The World’s Marco Werman talks with Rachel Ziemba at the Center for a New American Security about the repercussions of sanctioning Russia and who will feel the pain.

Since the CDC announced N95 masks were superior to cloth ones, trash cans have been filling with masks at an even faster rate. The question of how to balance health with sustainability doesn’t have a clear answer. The WHO has warned that the pandemic is exposing a "dire need" to improve medical waste management practices. To discuss, the World host Marco Werman is joined by Pierguiseppe Morone, a...

A new omicron variant known as BA2 is said to be spreading faster than any other COVID-19 virus so far. The strain is now dominant in parts of Europe and in South Africa, but still not much is known about whether it is causing more severe disease. Host Marco Werman speaks with Samuel Scarpino, managing director of Pathogen Surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation.

When President Joe Biden took office, one of his first actions was to end a Trump-era visa ban on citizens from several majority-Muslim countries. This act allowed thousands of people to finally reunite with their families in the United States. But one group was left behind: Iranian men who have previously served in the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The State Department considers this branc...

Ukraine declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, calling up its reservists aged 18 to 60. This follows Russian troops moving into the separatist-controlled Donbas region of Ukraine. The World's Marco Werman spoke with retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, about the latest developments and what the future holds for Ukraine if hostilities were to begin.

Musicians draw inspiration from all kinds of places: love, heartache — and Japanese ghosts. Los Angeles-based musician Sasami Ashworth, known mononymously as Sasami, shares with us stories and music inspired, in part, by Japanese spirit folklore. Her latest album is called "Squeeze."

The death of global health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer is being felt around the world. Farmer is credited with building community health systems where there were none, in countries including Haiti, Rwanda and the US. He died yesterday of a heart attack at one of the hospitals in Rwanda that he had helped to create. Dr. Atul Gawande, who is currently head of global health at the US Agency for Internati...

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. There’s quite a bit of religious diversity in the country, too, including a very small Jewish community. And they number only a few hundred people. An Indonesian rabbi recently tried to spread awareness of antisemitism and its dangers by opening a Holocaust memorial. But that brought him a lot of trouble, including allegations that he’s pus...

A massive breach of data at Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse has revealed widespread corruption. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dominik Gross, a tax and finance analyst at Switzerland’s global development think tank Alliance Sud, about the revelations and what it says about Switzerland's banking sector.

For some people, today is just another day on the calendar. But if you love numbers and you love palindromes, then today, Tuesday, 2-22-2022, is your day! The World's host Marco Werman speaks to University of South Carolina sociology professor Barry Markovsky about why 2-22-22 and numerology fascinates so many people.