"We need to restore confidence," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says as about 100 world leaders are expected to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week in a hybrid format as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Guterres says the world is "in a very dangerous situation" and adds that discrepancies in the rates of vaccination against Covid-19 between richer and poorer countries are "absolutely unacceptable.