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Afghanistan: Seven further deaths at Kabul airport as thousands wait to escape
Another seven people have been killed in the panicked scenes around Kabul airport, with tens of thousands of people still desperate to escape Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
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‘We should be in Afghanistan still,’ says former British Army commander
We were joined by Richard Streatfeild, a former British Army commander, and the former British ambassador to Kabul, Sir William Patey. And from Oslo in Norway, we also spoke to Ashley Jackson, who’s co-director of the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups.
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UK government working on resettlement scheme for vulnerable Afghans
As British troops continue with the evacuation of the remaining British nationals in Kabul, MPs will be called back tomorrow to parliament for five hours of debate.
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‘Sheer desperation’: Harrow councillor’s escape from Afghanistan
We spoke to Peymana Assad, who is a Labour councillor for the London borough of Harrow.
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Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
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‘Covid is just a warm-up’ for climate crisis, conservationist warns
We were joined by conservationist and Wildlife Ambassador at Norfolk Wildlife Trust Nick Acheson and Environmental Economist at the University of Cambridge, Dr Matthew Agarwala.
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Belarus accused of ‘state-sponsored hijack’ of plane after journalist arrest
State-sponsored “hijacking”, “piracy” and even “terrorism” are the accusations against Belarus.
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Spain deploys military as 6,000 migrants arrive on beach in Ceuta enclave
Spain deployed its military to beaches surrounding the city, as more than 6,000 thousand new arrivals, many of them teenagers, emerged from the sea to a wall of soldiers.
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UK needs ‘a code of ethics’ around lobbying, says former Thatcher private secretary
We are now joined by two people who have worked at the highest levels of government departments – Caroline Slocock, a former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and John Major, who’s now director of think tank Civil Exchange, and Sir Peter Westmacott, the former UK ambassador to the US, France and Turkey.
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Nine UK citizens sanctioned by China for speaking out about Uighur human rights abuses
Nine UK citizens, including five MPs, who’ve been sanctioned by China after accusing them of human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims say they’ll “redouble” their campaigning on the issue.
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Scale of drop in UK exports to EU ‘shocking’, says former UK diplomat Sir Simon Fraser
Sir Simon Fraser is a former permanent under secretary at the Foreign Office who also worked at the European Commission on trade matters, and David O’Sullivan is an Irish diplomat who served as the EU’s Ambassador to the US .
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10 years of hell: Is the dream of a different Syria still alive?
In today’s Fourcast, Waad and Hamza Al-Kateab describe the defining moments of the revolution through their eyes and discuss whether the dream of a different Syria is still alive after ten years of war.
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2021: Former Syrian official convicted by German court in first case of its kind
Today, a German court found a former member of President Assad’s secret police guilty of facilitating the torture of prisoners.
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Trump presidency ‘an aberration’ – Lewis Lukens, former US deputy chief of mission to UK
With a new incoming President in the White House, that is also going to mean a new US ambassador in the United Kingdom. Like Donald Trump, the man who’s been in charge of the embassy for the past three years has proved to be a controversial figure. The former deputy chief of mission at the…
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The Queen praises the resilience of people in the UK and around the world in her annual Christmas speech
The Queen praised the resilience of people in the UK and around the world during the coronavirus pandemic.