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Theresa May: era of ‘foreign intervention’ is over
Theresa May tonight ripped up the Tony Blair/David Cameron approach to foreign intervention in a speech to Republican senators and congress members in Philadelphia.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is calling on countries to open their borders to migrants fleeing from the violence in Libya – sparking a clash with Italy, which has warned of a “disaster”.
As fresh fighting breaks out in Libya, Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says Colonel Gaddafi’s forces seem to be rapidly losing their grip on key western towns near Tripoli.
I ask another car overfilled with Tunisian, Egyptian and Algerian guest-workers what things are like and the driver tells me: “If you go now from the border into Libya towards Tripoli, for the first 60km things are ok. But after that, well, it just gets more and more dangerous.”
Thousands are trying to flee Libya amid fears of civil war. Colonel Gaddafi is losing his grip on power and will not be able to hold out for much longer, a Libya expert tells Channel 4 News.
The scent of revolution has moved to Libya, but after people power brought down the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, Channel 4 News asks two Middle East experts what is happening in those countries now.
How Tony Blair must be angry. Colonel Gaddafi, the man he brought in from the cold, is isolated again and retreating. His armed supporters have gunned down scores of protesters demanding the end of 42 years of autocratic rule. The revolution has finally started to catch up with the old revolutionary.
Colonel Gaddafi’s son vows the Libyan regime will fight until the “last man standing”, as an engineer in Tripoli tells Channel 4 News the city is shaking.
Eyewitnesses tell Channel 4 News dozens are dying as sniper units shoot people on the streets, while the former British Ambassador to Libya, Sir Richard Dalton, examines the challenge to Col Gaddafi.
The Libyan government’s extreme use of force threatens to fan the flames of dissent, writes former British Ambassador to Libya, Sir Richard Dalton, for Channel 4 News.
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
Celebrities often support aid agencies, but by recognising the role of regional powers in Sudan, Macklemore has done something more significant: he has identified the real cause of the suffering and called for action.
Jeremy Corbyn is calling for a War Powers Act to require the government to get parliamentary approval before military interventions. But would it actually achieve the accountability Labour want?
Theresa May tonight ripped up the Tony Blair/David Cameron approach to foreign intervention in a speech to Republican senators and congress members in Philadelphia.
Will Theresa May maintain Britain’s friendship with Saudi Arabia while its brand of radical Islam continues to be exported to other countries?
Quite simply the radical progressive sentiment that’s swept Greece, Spain, Scotland and the British Labour movement has now hit America.