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The emergency use approval for Bharat's Covaxin will mean millions of Indians can soon travel and could also be a major boost for low-income countries desperate for vaccines. Host Marco Werman speaks to Prashant Yadav, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development about why this vaccine made it on the World Health Organization’s list and what that could mean for global COVID-19 vaccine supp...

Ai Weiwei is probably China's most famous contemporary artist and activist. His new memoir, "1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows," is a parallel story about his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, one of China's most renowned modern poets. Growing up during the Cultural Revolution with his father a target of the Communist authorities helped turn Ai Weiwei into a staunch defender of freedom of exp...

Afghans are desperately in need of foreign aid just to get through the winter. But the international community doesn’t want to prop up the extremist Taliban government. From Kabul, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Astrid Sletten tells The World’s Marco Werman that a catastrophe is already unfolding in Afghanistan.

On the eve of the first anniversary of the Ethiopian government's war with Tigrayan rebels, Marco Werman speaks with Alex De Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, about the roots of the conflict in Tigray, about the political forces driving the war, and the prospects for a ceasefire and resolution.

Human rights investigators have uncovered grave abuses that might constitute war crimes in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region. The United Nations human rights office, together with the government-created Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has released a report on atrocities committed by all sides in the yearlong Tigray conflict. The UN high commissioner for human rights said the violence can...

Supermarket customers are used to seeing nutrition information and organic labels on their food. But a growing group of companies also wants to inform customers on how much of an environmental impact their food products have. The World's Bianca Hillier has the details.

After setting a tone of urgency in sweeping speeches at the UN climate summit in Glasgow over the last two days, world leaders have now left Scotland and handed things over to the negotiators to roll up their sleeves and do the nitty-gritty work for the next week and a half. On Wednesday, countries and institutions pledged billions of dollars for climate finance, which is likely to be a sticking p...

It's been less than two months since thousands of Haitians were encamped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, just at the US-Mexico border. Some of those migrants were eventually allowed to enter the US, but the majority of them were deported to Haiti. Many of them had lived outside of Haiti for years. The World’s Monica Campbell went to Haiti to hear from those who’ve been deported about their new r...

Singer Sabah Fakhri became famous for his interpretations of traditional Arabic music and for his unforgettable, powerful, tenor voice. His voice was so powerful that he even made it into the Guinness Book of Records for a concert he gave in Venezuela back in 1968 where he sang for 10 hours straight. Syrian American Reem Bailony was born in San Diego but remembers hearing his music when she would...

Russian, Chinese and European tourism agencies are planning on bringing tourists back to Syria next year. Travel vloggers are also visiting the country, inviting people to visit historical sites and colorful souks. But how ethical is it to visit a country still officially in a state of civil war not to mention a terrible human rights record? The World's Marco Werman spoke with Mohammad al-Abdallah...

Russia and Ukraine have been essentially at war since 2014, the only ongoing armed conflict on European soil today. Now, according to recent reports, Russia is ramping up the pressure. Satellite images confirm that Russia is amassing troops and military hardware along its border with Ukraine. Host Marco Werman speaks with Robert Person, a professor of international relations, specializing in Russi...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed on to a global pledge on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030. Indigenous leaders say that during his tenure in the Amazon, much the opposite has happened. Michael Fox reports on new studies showing an increase in violence against Indigenous communities, as well as land invasions and the deforestation of Native territories.

Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s top oil producers, has pledged to cut down its greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2060. It says it wants to do that by investing in green energy, capturing carbon, and planting millions of trees. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Last week, Egypt lifted its long-running state of emergency which had granted special powers of surveillance and detainment by the military. Now, it's moving to make a separate national security law that was once temporary, permanent. It gives the military many of the same powers to detain civilians and try them in military courts that the state of emergency enabled. There is also a package of dra...

Even in the best of times, many North Koreans don’t get enough to eat. But the country is now suffering through a severe food shortage — and Kim Jong-un warns citizens it could last for years. To get through this crisis, North Korean officials are pushed to get creative. The regime is even hyping up one not-so-traditional source of nutrition: black swans, described as “delicious and having great m...

From Clubhouse and Tiktok to rallies in San Francisco and around the world, members of the Sudanese diaspora are reacting and trying to make their voices heard on the coup. Hana Baba reports from San Francisco.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be busy rallying world leaders to strike crucial deals at the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, but behind the scenes, an ugly row is brewing between Britain and France. A bitter dispute over fishing rights has broken out between the two countries. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

On the second day that world leaders met at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, more than a hundred countries signed on to two different voluntary pledges aimed at combating climate change. The Global Methane pledge aims to cut emissions of methane, the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas, 30% by 2030. And a pact on deforestation aims to halt deforestation by the same year. The World's e...

Ado Campeol, the so-called “father of tiramisu,” died this Saturday aged 93. Campeol was a restaurant owner in Treviso, Italy – close to Venice – and is given co-credit for inventing the dessert back in 1969. But it was his wife, Alda Di Pollo, who originally came up with the idea while pregnant with their son. The World's Lucía Benavides tells the story of the famous dessert and reflects on its i...

The stereotypical Parisian is someone cycling home from work, beret on their head. And under their arm, a baguette. The French consume about 10 billion baguettes a year. That's 320 baguettes per second for the country. So, you can imagine that the rising cost of wheat is raising some alarm bells there. Bread expert Steven Kaplan sheds some light on what's going on for host Marco Werman. Kaplan is...

On Saturday, singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron was inducted into the Rock and Hall of Fame. Many of Gil Scott-Heron's songs addressed racial and political tensions, with an eye on justice and equality. Malik Al Nasir is a poet, filmmaker and musician from Liverpool, England. He's also the author of the new book, "Letters to Gil: A Luminous Memoir of Racism, Life in the Care System and the Power of D...

The folks at the Oxford English Dictionary have picked "vax" as the word of the year. Host Marco Werman tells us about it.

At least 5 million people have died from the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. That's according to Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Ali Mokdad, a professor of health science metrics and the chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, to contextualize this number and get an overall update o...

Plenty of us dreads the morning commute. So, we tune into the traffic report to help us get to work on time. But people in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince often face more than just traffic jams. They’re worried about protests, street violence and a rise in kidnappings. To avoid those things, many Haitians rely on one popular long-time Haitian traffic reporter. The World’s Monica Campbell tag...

Interpol arrested 150 people caught selling illicit goods on the notorious dark web supersite, DarkMarket. Marco Werman interviews a former associate deputy attorney general at the US Department of Justice, Sujit Raman. He also worked on cybercrime with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization.