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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband on hunger strike vows to continue until it is unsafe
The husband of Nazanin Zagahari-Ratcliffe says his family is “stuck in the same status quo” following what he described as a “depressing” meeting with British government officials.
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‘Freetown to Treetown’ – mayor outlines plan to plant a million trees
Thousands of miles across the African continent, in Sierra Leone and its neighbours, the overheating planet and desertification are becoming ever more urgent.
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Maldives suffering impact of climate change ‘now’, former president says
For the low-lying islands of the world this crisis is truly existential, literally lapping at their feet.
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2035: Green revolution choked by coal in Africa #OurClimateFutures
This video is part of Our Climate Futures – a project which takes real science to forecast what impacts and changes humanity may face as the climate crisis unfolds. This is not a news story. At least not yet.
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Youth climate conference debate: what can be achieved at COP26?
We speak to Archie Young, the UK’s lead climate negotiator at the Cabinet Office, who’s in charge of the team who will actually sit at the table in Glasgow, and Ella Simons, from Australia, who’s just turned 15 and is the youngest delegate here in Milan.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband marks her 2,000 days in detention
It is exactly 2,000 days since British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was first detained in Tehran on trumped up charges of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime.
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From shipwrecks to Iron Age forts – how climate change threatens our heritage
It might not be the first thing you think about when climate change is mentioned.
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SpaceX launch makes history as four amateur astronauts orbit Earth
According to the experts in these things, the holiday of the future could involve hurtling around the earth at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour. Sickbag included.
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Submarine pact ‘manifestation of global Britain’, says former UK national security adviser
We’re joined from Washington by Richard Fontaine, who was foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign,
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Miami’s ‘climate gentrification’
Where the rich move to safer ground and force other communities to bear the brunt of the climate disaster.
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Windrush scandal: Victim on 38-year battle to return to the UK
Imagine going abroad to visit your in-laws and suddenly being told you have no right to go back to Britain because of a mistake in your passport.
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Is it fair to raise national insurance to fund social care?
The pressures to spend more on the NHS in the short term and social care in the long term are clear. But the way national insurance works has raised doubts about whether it’s fair – between rich and poor and between the generations. So what is the right answer to these big spending challenges?
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Afghans wanting to flee terrified ‘they’ll be arrested or shot’, says retired British Army General
The logistical problems of getting people out of Kabul are overwhelming.
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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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‘No strategic choices now, just an operational reality and a tactical embarrassment,’ says former Head of British Army
So what strategy can the international community now grasp from the wreckage of comprehensive defeat.