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Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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Russia’s defence ministry dismisses claims that it had threatened Ukrainian troops in Crimea with a “real assault” if they did not surrender by the early hours of Tuesday morning as “utter nonsense”.
Prime Minister David Cameron says it would be wrong for British ministers to attend the Paralympics in Sochi because of the serious situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine charges its top naval commander with treason one day after his appointment, as the Russian and Ukrainian armies remain in a tense standoff.
“Dangerous signs of separatism” are emerging in some regions of Ukraine, the country’s interim president says as he prepares to meet law enforcement agencies.
US President Barack Obama meets the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama – but in doing so, says Beijing, he has risked “seriously damaging ties” with China.
The horrific brutality of life in North Korea is laid bare in a UN report, which describes how the state maintains a climate of fear through executions, enforced disappearances and starvation.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the first two rounds of talks have made little headway but the two sides have agreed to meet again.
Syria will complete the removal of chemical weapons from the country by the end of the month, and will attend the next round of Geneva peace talks, senior Russian ministers say.
Bashar al-Assad’s government has demolished thousands of homes in an attack on Syria’s civilian population, says a report from Human Rights Watch.
As a team of international war crimes prosecutors releases images appearing to show evidence of systematic killing in Syria, Channel 4 News asks if this week’s peace talks in Geneva are at risk.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych calls for “compromise and dialogue” with the opposition after violent clashes between protesters and riot police continue in Kiev.
Twenty-eight protesters against Thailand’s government are injured in Bangkok after an explosive device was thrown at a march led by opposition leader Suthep Thaugsuban.
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
Syria begins moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament programme.
After August’s chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, prospects for peace in Syria looked remote. But then Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart, John Kerry, managed to pull the world back from the brink.