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The medical system in the Amazon city of Manaus is in collapse, as many hospitals have run out of oxygen. Patients are being transported to other cities, and the military has sent an emergency supply of oxygen and other medical equipment.

China, which had no deaths from COVID-19 on its mainland for eight months, has responded to reports of 500 new cases by locking down 28 million people in northern provinces. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor tells host Carol Hills that people thousands of miles from the outbreak are growing anxious and responding with extreme caution.

In Istanbul, a group of artists has turned an abandoned apartment building into a multistory art installation. Durrie Bouscaren takes us to a little utopia that artists have created before the building is demolished.

On Thursday, the Trump administration took another step in cracking down on some of China’s worst human rights practices. It has banned imports of cotton and tomatoes from China’s Xinjiang region based on evidence of forced labor. Human rights groups around the world have estimated that 1 in 5 cotton garments sold worldwide have a connection to forced labor of Uighur people in Xinjiang. Host Marco...

A wind turbine that has a span of two football fields is being used in a wind farm off the coast of the UK. It can power 12,000 homes in a year. This week on The World's weekly look at climate solutions, The Big Fix, environment producer Anna Kusmer explores why bigger is better when it comes to wind energy.

Eleven-year-old Yamen Bai fled Syria with his family to escape the country's civil war. They landed in the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Soon after settling in, Yamen started asking to join the local league. But he didn’t know how to skate, and he didn’t have any gear. So, the community stepped in to help. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

This week, the Brazilian health research institute involved in the country’s top COVID-19 vaccine, CoronaVac, announced that the drug is actually much less effective than previously reported. Still, many health officials insist it's a good vaccine. This comes amid an already chaotic government response to the pandemic and rising numbers of deaths as Brazil suffers from its second wave. Michael Fox...

China is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, but it's also at the forefront of renewable energy innovation and has some of the world's largest conservation projects. Yifei Li is an environmental researcher at New York University Shanghai and the author of the recent book, “China Goes Green." He speaks to The World's host Marco Werman about the downfalls of authoritarian environmentali...

NASA released its annual global temperature data on Thursday and says 2020 is the hottest year on record, nudging out 2016 by a smidge.

After a turbulent run-up, Thursday was election day in Uganda. Millions of people went to the polls to vote for president. There have been concerns about violence. Also, the internet has been down across Uganda since Wednesday. Yoweri Museveni is the incumbent in this race. He's been in office for more than 30 years. The leading opposition candidate is the pop singer-turned-politician, Bobi Wine....

A now-viral photo shows New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim on his knees cleaning up the Capitol rotunda after the Jan. 6 mob rampage. Kim talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about the custodians he worked alongside and all of those restoring order and bridging divides in Washington.

The European Union's Food Safety Authority said on Wednesday that mealworms are safe for human consumption. But as The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, whether Europeans embrace edible insects is a different story.

Greece called for the creation of a vaccination certificate system on Tuesday. The coronavirus-stricken country has suffered economically and is hoping a European vaccination system can help ease cross-border travel in order to uplift its tourism sector. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Alexandra Phelan, from the Center for Global Health Science and Security, to discuss these developments.

In Ireland, so-called mother-and-baby homes were Catholic Church-run institutions where many pregnant, unmarried women were sent during much of the 20th century. Today, a long-awaited investigation into the homes is due, following the discovery of a mass grave of babies and children in western Ireland. The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Canadian authorities are considering designating the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group founded by a Canadian, as a terrorist organization in the wake of the crisis at the US Capitol. Host Marco Werman speaks to David Hofmann, a sociology professor at the University of New Brunswick, who has studied the rise of white extremism in Canada. 

Thursday, millions of Ugandas will go vote in their presidential election. The incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, is a long-time US partner but he's ruled the country for more than 30 years. Nearly 70% of Ugandans are under the age of 25 — for them, Museveni has been their only president. Now though, Museveni faces a challenger. He's a musician named Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu — better known as pop singe...

The patent language for a piece of Huawei surveillance technology mentions its ability to identify people who appear to be of Uighur origin. Huawei has previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups and that it would alter the patent. Marco Werman speaks with Maya Wang, a senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch, about the reach of Chinese surveillance technol...

This week, a team of scientists with the World Health Organization are traveling to China. They’ll be investigating SARS-CoV-2, a virus that was new to everyone just over a year ago. The mission has been mired in politics, but scientists hope to gain important new details about the disease and its spread. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World's Elana Gordon about the journey.

Last August, Russia's leading opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned. According to Navalny and new investigations, the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, was behind the attack. Since August, Navalny has been recovering from the poisoning in Berlin, Germany. Now Navalny announced that he's coming back home to Moscow. The World's Daniel Ofman reports.

The threats posed by domestic extremists are now glaringly obvious to many Americans. But will the dangers increase or decrease in light of recent arrests?  J.M. Berger, the author of the book, “Extremism,” and a fellow with VOX-Pol, a European Union initiative that studies online extremism, talks with The World’s Marco Werman.

Donald Trump was impeached for a second time Wednesday as the House of Representatives debated whether to remove the US president. Lawmakers sped to a vote just a week after Trump encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against the certified election results and then a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a deadly insurrection. The World’s Matthew Bell has the latest.

Edible public spaces can come in a lot of different shapes and sizes, ranging from a community garden to a 5-acre forest to a citrus tree on the side of a road. With that range comes an equally wide variety of benefits. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

The pandemic is especially impacting children across the globe. As of this month, more than 200 million children are fully out of school and remote. That represents about 1 in 8 learners, according to UNESCO. Harvard University’s Meira Levinson and Marc Lipsitch warn it's only exacerbating inequalities across the globe.

Tunisian American musician Emel Mathlouthi tells her story of how she happened to be performing in her homeland during the Arab uprisings, and how her latest recording is a synthesis of her life and the last 10 years of change in Tunisia.

About a year ago, we first met Adela Diaz, a student at the University of Arizona. She voted for the first time in last year’s presidential election. The World followed her journey to the polls as part of our series, “Every 30 Seconds,” looking at the young, Latino electorate in the US. Reporter Michel Marizco from KJZZ in Tucson tells us what’s next for Diaz. The World's Marco Werman also talks t...