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How far should former prime minsters benefit financially from their time in office?
How far should former prime minsters benefit financially from their time in office? David Cameron’s famous photo opportunity with Chinese Presdent Xi Jinping in a Buckinghamshire pub kick started a bromance between London and Bejing. Now Chinese businessmen have said “thank you” to the Old Etonian by each paying a cool twelve thousand pounds to…
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FactCheck: has the media ignored good news about Jeremy Corbyn?
It seems from our archive searches that the media generally pays little attention to the Sean MacBride Peace Prize.
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Tulip Siddiq: MP and niece of Bangladesh PM asked to help free barrister abducted by men apparently linked to government
At the forefront of the campaign to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been her local MP Tulip Siddiq. Now she is being asked to use her influence to free a person campaigners say has been locked up illegally – a British-trained barrister in Bangladesh who was abducted by men thought to be working for the government.
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Channel 4 News wins International Emmy for News
The material, shot by Syrian film-maker Waad Al-Kateab, featured both unprecedented documentation of the turmoil in the city’s final hospital, as well as the human stories of those who stayed during the siege.
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How Anguilla and St Martin are dealing with Hurricane Irma’s aftermath
Ministers are looking at ways of using the UK’s £13 billion aid budget to help the British overseas territories in the Caribbean affected by Hurricane Irma. Chief correspondent Alex Thomson visits the Britsh overseas territory of Anguilla and the nearby French St Martin to see the response to Irma’s havoc.
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Caribbean islands uninhabitable after Hurricane Irma
Once a heaven, now a sodden hell with flooded homes, debris and devastation. Alex Thomson reports from the Caribbean.
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Former housing minister Grant Shapps and the Guardian’s Dawn Foster debate
Why aren’t we building enough houses? It’s a question that successive governments have promised to address but very little seems to change. Joining us from Hertfordshire is Grant Schapps, a former Conservative housing minister and in the studio is Matt Thomson from the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the writer and journalist, Dawn Foster.
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The battle to defeat IS in Syria
If Mosul and the battle for Raqqa are dominating the headlines, the Syrian army has its eye on another battlefield. The key to that is the desert east of Homs that stretches all the way to the Iraqi border. The Syrian army has been focusing its efforts with tank units who are making some astonishing…
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Russia Today consider legal action over Emmanuel Macron ‘propaganda’ comments
French President Emmanuel Macron has called their journalists “agents of influence and propaganda”. No wonder RT, formerly known as Russia Today, says its mission is to improve Russia’s image abroad. And in a rare interview, Margarita Simonyan , the editor of RT has told this programme that they are considering legal action aginst their French…
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Vladmir Putin faces annual phone-in questions
Why IS the weather so bad? Please can you fill in the potholes? What about that problem with Turkish tomatoes? Why haven’t you got married again? Did you really mess with the American election? Yes – today was the annual Putin phone-in, as the Russian President fielded questions from a nation getting everything, or ALMOST…
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The young team behind Alexei Navalny
The Kremlin has dismissed criticism of its tough police response to yesterday’s anti-government protests, which saw more than 1,400 people arrested and the opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 30 days. The authorities literally pulled the plug on his campaign, cutting off his YouTube channel, which had been broadcasting live to tens of thousands of…
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What will happen to Ireland’s border now after Brexit?
The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has promised to work with Ireland to avoid the return of a hard border with Northern Ireland, telling a joint session of the Irish parliament that “nothing should put peace at risk.” Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is in Dublin now.
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Blair calls for revolt to stop Brexit
Tony Blair has called for a popular revolt to stop Brexit happening – with a cross-party movement to persuade people not to let Britain leave the EU. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accused him of insulting the intelligence of the electorate, while the Greens’ Caroline Lucas described Mr Blair’s intervention as “staggeringly unhelpful.” Chief correspondent Alex…
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FactCheck: Eva Bartlett’s claims about Syrian children
Perhaps the simpler explanation is the more likely one: children really are being orphaned in Syria, or left wounded and distressed, and those children are now being wrongly accused of involvement in an elaborate conspiracy.
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Nigeria: Boko Haram’s victims
In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok. Most of them have still not been found and the abductions have continued. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has visited a camp in Maiduguri, where Unicef has helped support some of those abducted.