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Somalia food crisis: ‘Drought is reaching catastrophic proportions’, US ambassador says
The US ambassador to Somalia, Larry Andre, joins Krishnan from the capital Mogadishu.
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Russian Ambassador: Ukrainian shopping mall hit by missile was ‘empty’
We spoke to the Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin about his country’s ongoing war in Ukraine. We asked for his response to the missile strike on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk- and if at the very least he would admit that it was a tragic and terrible mistake?
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Biological sex does matter but not at exclusion of others, says women’s health ambassador
Now improving the health of all women is the aim of England’s first women’s health ambassador. Dame Lesley Regan says too often girls and women have to fight too hard to get the treatment they need. But it is a huge in-tray. Everything from periods to the menopause and the maternity scandals which have seen…
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Al Shabaab forces ‘insidious’ in Somalia, says US ambassador
The US has announced that it will redeploy troops to Somalia to help in the fight against Al Shabaab.
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Not being in EU has not made impact in dealing with Ukraine crisis, says British ambassador to US
We were joined from Washington by the British Ambassador to the US, Karen Pierce.
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‘No grounds for allegations that we’ll invade Ukraine’, says Russia deputy UN Ambassador
We spoke to Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, and began by asking why Russia had so many troops at the Ukraine border while also claiming that it doesn’t want war.
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‘None of us really know what President Putin’s intentions are’, says US ambassador
We spoke to Julianne Smith, the US ambassador to Nato, and asked her how Nato is helping Ukraine and dealing with Russia.
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‘Putin is a serial aggressor’, says former US ambassador to Ukraine
We spoke to John Herbst, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, and started by asking if talks between Nato and Russia could defuse tensions on the Ukrainian border.
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Syria police officer trial shows Assad’s regime is ‘torture state’, says daughter of kidnapped man
We spoke to Wafa Mustafa, whose father Ali was dragged away by armed men from his home in Damascus more than eight years ago.
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Albanian ambassador rejects proposals for processing centre for Channel migrants
We spoke to the Albanian ambassador to the UK, Qirjako Qirko, and we asked him if Albania is one of the countries the British government is hoping to partner with when it comes to processing asylum seekers.
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AUKUS: France recalls ambassadors in Australia and US amid submarine pact row
France’s ambassador to Australia has left Canberra, as it carries out a highly charged response to the AUKUS security agreement.
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Show Taliban ‘respect’ to secure evacuation extension, says former British ambassador
We spoke to Sir Christopher Meyer, a former diplomat who served as the British ambassador to the United States.
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Taliban have already started their revenge, says former Afghan ambassador to UK
We spoke to Ahmad Wali Massoud, a former Afghan ambassador to the UK. His brother, Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
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‘I’ve almost been in tears listening to my former colleagues in Afghanistan’, says former British ambassador
We spoke to Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Afghanistan, and started by asking him for his thoughts on what’s happening in the country now.
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Moscow does not fear sanctions over Navalny poisoning, says Russia’s ambassador to UK
We spoke to the Russian Ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, in his first British broadcast interview since the G7 summit and asked him about the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Belarus, and the US-Russia relationship.