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The World's Rupa Shenoy speaks with the wife and daughter of attorney Ding Jiaxi, a leader of the pro-democracy China Citizens Movement, who was arrested in December. His lawyer has been denied access to him, and his family can't find out where he's being held.

Southern China is experiencing some of its worst floods in living memory this summer, but some experts say the impacts would be even worse if it weren't for large-scale projects China put in place after their last disastrous flood in 1998, which killed thousands of people. On The World's weekly look at climate change solutions, The Big Fix, The World's Anna Kusmer talks about some of the solutions...

Groundbreaking scientific research has found the source of the giant sandstone boulders used to construct Stonehenge. The World's Orla Barry tells host Marco Werman how researchers identified the location, and what they hope to discover next about how the stones were extracted and moved 4,500 years ago.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced a grilling from Senate Democrats on Thursday on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers pressed him on several fronts, including the planned drawdown of US troops in Germany and the Trump administration’s approach to Russia. Host Marco Werman gets a reading from former diplomat and State Department spokesperson Nicholas Burns.

Vietnam is right next to China, the origin of the outbreak — yet, Vietnam has not recorded a single death from the coronavirus. That's thanks to a major lockdown. But, as The World's Patrick Winn tells host Marco Werman, a small spike in infections in Vietnam has people there looking at the possibility of more emergency lockdown measures.

We close today's program with another song by Zeshan B. “Brown Power” is off his latest album, “Melismatic.”

Chinese hip-hop has exploded recently, but a number of stars ignore the African American roots of their music. For others, the police killing of George Floyd has led them to speak out against racism and see it as their mission to educate fans about social justice. Reporting from Shanghai, The World's Rebecca Kanthor looks at how Chinese hip-hop is grappling with Black Lives Matter.

The coronavirus pandemic is not letting up anytime soon. Daily case counts and deaths continue to set records across the globe. It has meant all hands on deck, from scientists to health workers. But the singular focus on preventing COVID-19 is having a secondary impact, threatening years of progress in slowing the spread of other communicable diseases. As The World's Elana Gordon reports, local an...

One of the most outspoken critics of  South Sudan’s government, Peter Biar Ajak, has arrived in the US seeking refuge. Ajak says he’s fleeing because South Sudan’s government wants to abduct or kill him. The government in Juba denies the charge. Ajak speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about why he’s on the run and his efforts to ignite a pro-democracy movement in South Sudan.

Only a few years ago, Chinese leader Xi Jinping traveled to Great Britain and received the full treatment that comes with an official state visit. There was a lavish dinner at Buckingham Palace, even a pint in the pub with then-Prime Minister David Cameron. Now, UK-British relations are decidedly more chilly, and they may be getting chillier, as The World's Orla Barry reports from London.

Patricia Espinosa is the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, responsible for helping hundreds of countries make and keep ambitious climate targets. Espinosa speaks to The World's Marco Werman about the challenges of keeping the world's leaders focused on climate change amid other global crises.

Zeshan B tells us that one of the roles of a musician is to stir people's souls. He plays us the track “Stay,” a song about people being pushed out of their neighborhoods.

Hundreds of asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors separated from their families have been detained at hotels along the southern border, and later, expelled to their home countries, according to a recent exclusive report by the Associated Press (AP). Host Marco Werman speaks with Karla Vargas, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project. Vargas represented a 13-year-old girl who fled gang violen...

COVID-19 is considered a novel coronavirus because it is a new, undefined coronavirus identified in humans. However, a new study suggests that other similar viruses capable of infecting humans have been circulating in bats for decades. That’s according to a new study published by Nature Microbiology. Host Marco Werman speaks with the author of the study, Maciej Boni.

In a Sunday Mail column for Australia's "The Advertiser," columnist Peter Goers criticized the appearance of Liberal politician Nicolle Flint. Flint took to Twitter on Monday to say she's had enough. The World’s host Marco Werman has the story.

In Canada, most of the people who've died from the coronavirus were residents in nursing homes. That pushed the Canadian government to set strict rules for isolating that population. But that's been hard on many older people in long-term care homes. Now, many experts say strict confinement is doing more harm than good. Anita Elash reports from Toronto.

One of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus is Yemen. A new study by the Chicago-based nongovernmental organization MedGlobal reports that COVID-19 mortality rate in Yemen is five times the global average, with 27% of infections resulting in death and at least 97 Yemeni health care workers have died of COVID-19. One of them was neurologist Younis Anis, professor at the University of Aden. Th...

From the start, the warnings were clear that farmworkers, deemed essential since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, would be at high risk for COVID-19. Earlier this year, The World’s Monica Campbell spoke to farmworkers who were worried that they wouldn’t be protected from the virus. She follows up with how the coronavirus is pummeling some farming communities, and how some workers are fightin...

A new online project, Window Swap, lets you toggle through views out windows all around the world, from Egypt to Greece to Australia. Host Marco Werman speaks to the project's creators, Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, in Singapore.

Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said social media companies are immoral and unfit for the Turkish nation, and he vowed to crack down on them. This week, Turkey’s Parliament is debating legislation that would do just that. The government says the measures are intended to crack down on illegal behavior online. Activists say it will lead to greater censorship in the country...

The coronavirus has created all sorts of disruptions in the way people mourn — from not allowing loved ones to say goodbye at the hospital to canceling or delaying funerals. That could create complications down the road and a "tsunami of suffering" when the pandemic is over, Dr. Harvey Chochinov, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, tells The World’s host Ma...

With only three months until the general elections, Democratic candidate Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump are trying to secure the Latino vote. Some polls put Biden behind on efforts, and many young Latinos still don't have as much enthusiasm as they did for Bernie Sanders. “Every 30 Seconds” series editor Daisy Contreras speaks to The World's host Marco Werman about ads and outreac...

A new estimate finds that some 3 billion animals were killed or displaced during the 2019-2020 wildfire season in Australia. The World’s host Marco Werman has the details on a new study released this week looking at the impact of the record fires on wildlife. 

In the past six weeks, the number of cases worldwide has roughly doubled. But, amid these surges, the world continues to put hopes on a vaccine. Efforts to develop and manufacture vaccines are ramping up, with two phase three clinical trials announced this week. At the same time, tensions are growing over who would have access around the globe. Host Marco Werman speaks with the World’s Elana Gordo...

Cuban officials haven’t reported any new COVID-19 deaths for two weeks. Since the pandemic began, they've recorded only 87 fatalities. Although some on the island find the news to be too good to be true, even Cuba’s fiercest critics admit it has made big strides in combating the coronavirus. At the same time — and not unlike in the US — Cuba is seeing a grassroots movement to combat police brutali...