US Senate passes landmark climate and healthcare bill
The bill will fund initiatives such as electric car ownership
- 30 mins
- 08 Aug 2022
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Episodes (57 Available)
- 'Russian rockets damaged part of nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia'
Russia seized the nuclear power site in March
- 27 mins
- 07 Aug 2022
- Israel strikes Gaza killing top militant
Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad fire dozens of rockets into Israel in response
- 30 mins
- 05 Aug 2022
- China halts co-operation with US over climate change and defence
It's in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
- 26 mins
- 05 Aug 2022
- Russia jails Griner for nine years
President Biden says the sentencing of the US basketball player is "unacceptable".
- 31 mins
- 05 Aug 2022
- Japan says Chinese missiles have landed in its territory
Beijing is conducting live fire exercises around Taiwan after Nancy Pelosi's visit
- 29 mins
- 04 Aug 2022
- Guterres accuses energy firms of grotesque greed
The UN head urges governments to tax excessive profits made by oil and gas companies
- 31 mins
- 04 Aug 2022
- Nancy Pelosi leaves Taiwan after controversial visit
The US Speaker met leaders in the capital Taipei
- 29 mins
- 03 Aug 2022
- Chinese fury at Pelosi's Taiwan visit
Washington reassures Beijing the trip is consistent with US policy.
- 29 mins
- 03 Aug 2022
- Al Qaeda leader killed in US drone strike in Kabul
Washington says the Taliban should not have been harbouring Ayman al-Zawahiri
- 29 mins
- 02 Aug 2022
- UN says world is one misstep from nuclear annihilation
Antonio Guterres says luck is not a strategy
- 31 mins
- 02 Aug 2022
- First grain ship leaves Ukraine
A deal with Russia allows passage through a safe corridor
- 29 mins
- 01 Aug 2022
- Protestors injured as Iraqi parliament stormed again
Iraq's caretaker PM has called for dialogue
- 29 mins
- 31 Jul 2022
- Ukraine seeks UN and Red Cross prison deaths probe
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of the attack
- 27 mins
- 30 Jul 2022
- Hope for Ukraine grain blockade
The first grain ship from Ukraine since Russia's invasion is ready to leave port
- 28 mins
- 29 Jul 2022
- China warns US not to 'play with fire' over Taiwan
Xi Jinping and President Biden spoke for more than two hours
- 22 mins
- 28 Jul 2022
- Ukraine’s counter offensive gathers pace
Forces are using US long-range rockets
- 28 mins
- 28 Jul 2022
- HIV surges globally
The UN warns that millions of lives are at risk around the world.
- 29 mins
- 27 Jul 2022
- Russia halves Nord Stream pipeline gas flow to Germany
Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom cuts gas being delivered
- 25 mins
- 27 Jul 2022
- Trump’s Washington comeback speech
The former President returned to a familiar theme, the US Mexico border.
- 31 mins
- 27 Jul 2022