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Saudi Arabia's one woman Olympic show
Should one woman horse rider, who still has to reach the ‘required standard’, be allowed to suggest a Saudi women’s Olympic ‘spring’? asks Jon Snow.
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Should one woman horse rider, who still has to reach the ‘required standard’, be allowed to suggest a Saudi women’s Olympic ‘spring’? asks Jon Snow.
As more than 30,000 people promise to protest this weekend in Russia after a disputed election result, Robin Cook’s former adviser tells Channel 4 News we are witnessing the start of “serious change”.
Jon Snow considers the lot of women in Saudi society and the restrictions they still face.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announces that women will be able to run as candidates in municipal elections and “even have the right to vote”.
The squeezed middle of Israeli society is taking its cue from the arab uprisings all around the region to demand social changes from its government, reports Jon Snow.
As a state of drought is officially declared in some parts of England, one farmer tells Channel 4 News he has already had restrictions placed on him and that his crops are “desperate for rain”.
Jon Snow on the unexpected outmanoeuvring of Saudi Arabia by Iran at the oil producers’ forum OPEC.
Watching Sepp Blatter’s press conference I was constantly reminded of the video appearances of various Arab dictators on the cusp of losing their power. Defiance, anger, finger jabbing.
We’re joined by David Kirkpatrick from the New York Times, who was the paper’s Cairo bureau chief for a number of years and has written a book on the Arab Spring.
In the west, Tunisia is seen as a model of democratic transition since its Arab Spring uprising. But it is also a place where secular politicians have been murdered and tourists killed.
The capital’s airport has fallen into the hands of the Misrata militia allied with jihadi extremists. Once hailed the success of the Arab Spring, is Libya tearing itself apart?
Two years on from the Arab Spring, Egypt is teetering on the bring of chaos. Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the country’s prospects for peace – or civil war.
Gunmen shoot dead Mohammed Brahmi, the leader of a leftist Tunisian opposition party, in the capital Tunis. It is the year’s second political assassination in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
“Waste your summer praying in vain, For a saviour to rise from these streets” – what Bruce Springsteen can teach us about Egypt and the Arab Spring.
It is 12 months since Mohammed Morsi won a democratic election on a surge of hope from the Arab Spring. Morsi is now being ejected as Egypt’s president with bitterness and hatred.