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China has a global vision called the “Belt and Road” initiative — a belt of land and maritime routes connecting China with Europe and beyond. Journalist Mary Kay Magistad explains how the project may have profound implications for global trade, politics and infrastructure.

Linas Linkevicius, the Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs, is one of the most vocal world leaders to speak up against Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, whose repressive tactics have inspired a growing protest movement and an even harsher crackdown on democracy activists. Foreign Minister Linkevcius tells host Marco Werman why he supports the protesters.

Six young people in Portugal, as young as 8, are demanding that the European Union take more action on climate change. Legal officer Gerry Liston with the Global Legal Action Network speaks with The World's Marco Werman about the case.

There’s an election embroiling Washington this month and it’s not the one for US president — it’s for the top position of the highly influential Inter-American Development Bank. The World’s Jorge Valencia interviews Carla Hills, a former US Trade Representative during the first Bush administration, Mark Feierstein, an adviser on Western hemispheric affairs to President Barack Obama, and Jacques Ro...

Julian Assange was back in court in London today as his fight against an extradition request to the United States continues. Assange faces a maximum of 175 years in prison on espionage charges. Assange has been held in a high-security prison in the UK since he was evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last year. Our Europe correspondent Orla Barry tells host Marco Werman the latest in the...

In China, a lot of food goes to waste. By one estimate, the amount of food thrown away in China every year could feed 30 to 50 million people. The government in Beijing wants to do something about it — and that's what "Operation Empty Plate" is all about. The World's China correspondent Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai.

Disney releases its new Mulan film today on the Disney Plus streaming service. But it's facing calls for a boycott. Host Carol Hills explains. 

A crackdown on peaceful demonstrations across Iran last year ended with hundreds of deaths, thousands of arrests, and what a new report from Amnesty International calls "a catalog of shocking human rights violations." Host Carol Hills speaks with Iran researcher Mansoureh Mills, who helped publish the report.

For nearly two months straight, Bulgarians have been taking to the streets to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his government. And demonstrators say they’re not giving up until he steps down. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry has the story.

Throughout the summer, wildfires have been raging in the Arctic circle. They're the worst since monitoring began two decades ago. The World's host Carol Hills speaks to Mark Parrington, wildfire expert at the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service about the record amounts of carbon emissions produced by the fires, why they're so bad this year, and how they're connected to climat...

Tomorrow in Brazil, Indigenous people will be celebrating the annual "Day of the Amazon." But for many people, it won't really be a celebration. COVID-19 has hit the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon region especially hard. But as Michael Fox reports, they're also taking action to protect themselves.

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, says it will return 11,500 illicit Iraqi and Egyptian artifacts to their countries of origin, but many think the agreement is unfair. Host Carol Hills speaks to professor Patty Gerstenblith, a cultural heritage expert at DePaul University in Chicago.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has admitted that things are not going well for the country. It was a startling admission, but there were few details. North Korea is a subject tackled by our friends at The Intelligence podcast, produced by Economist Radio in London. Its host Jason Palmer host and speaks to The World’s host Carol Hills. 

A British ferry captain is taking passengers to see cruise ships moored in the English channel. They're sort of ghost ships, sitting empty because of the pandemic. Host Carol Hills has the story. 

When we talk about COVID-19, where you are and whether you can protect yourself from the virus matters. In the US, the virus has swept through immigration detention facilities, infecting more than 5,000 people. KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero spoke with detained immigrants who’ve waged hunger strikes to call attention to conditions they say are dangerous.

How close are we to a vaccine for COVID-19, and what might a vaccine rollout look like in various countries? The World's Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Anna Durbin at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Ghana is famous for its textiles, which are full of vibrant colors and striking, repeating patterns. But if you look more closely at the fabric produced in recent months by one Ghanaian textile company, you’ll notice something unusual about those patterns: padlocks, airplanes, keys. This series of fabric designs was inspired by the coronavirus pandemic. Host Carol Hills speaks with Stephen Badu, m...

Australian Chantelle Doyle and her partner, Mark Rapley, are raising money for the Australian Marine Conservation Society while Doyle recovers from a shark bite. The World’s host Carol Hill tells us the story.

Thousands of the structures destroyed in Beirut’s Aug. 4 port explosion are heritage homes that made up the city's unique architectural fabric. But few owners have insurance — or the funds to repair them — amid Lebanon's worst financial crisis in decades. There is a grassroots movement trying to help, but the scale of the damage is overwhelming. Meanwhile, developers are swooping in trying to buy...

The United States has placed sanctions on senior members of the International Criminal Court, accusing the court of "illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction." An attorney for Human Rights Watch, Elizabeth Evenson, explains the scope of the ICC's investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan and what effect the Trump administration’s sanctions could have on the court's work.

A record number of fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest. Many were set illegally to clear land for farming and other development. This week on "The Big Fix," The World's weekly look at climate solutions,  environment producer Anna Kusmer reports on the importance of Indigenous rights in protecting the Brazilian Amazon.  

In the wake of the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, prominent German politicians are calling on Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to abandon the gas pipeline project, Nord Stream 2, which runs between Germany and Russia. Host Carol Hills speaks to Yuval Weber, a Washington, DC-based research assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&a...

Over the past week or so, dozens of social media users in Iran have spoken out about their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse. Several men, including influential figures, have been accused of rape and sexual harassment. The accusations have started a heated public debate about consent and harassment. Some have compared this to the #MeToo movement in the US. The World's Shirin Jaafari repor...

Fires in the Brazilian Amazon were at their worst in a decade last month. That's according to Reuters, citing data from Brazil's space research agency, which monitors wildfires via satellite. Michelle Kalamandeen, an expert on deforestation at the University of Cambridge, says more than 5,000 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon burned in the first seven months of 2020. These fires are used to cle...

India reported another record daily jump of 83,883 coronavirus infections today, taking its tally to 3.85 million total. Yet the government announced it will continue to reopen the country, including resuming subway systems. Host Carol Hill speaks with Professor Srinath Reddy, President of the Public Health Foundation of India.