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Donald Trump has hired his third national security adviser in 14 months, after replacing General McMaster with the notoriously hawkish former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. The move has unsettled allies, who fear the move will serve to harden US foreign policy and do away with the Iran deal.
Gary Gibbon
As the European Council meets in Brussels, yet again the Brexit issue is shoved to the moment chairs scrape and attention drifts at the dog end of the evening. Mrs May will have her say – the transition deal is in both our interests, the guidelines for negotiations on the future relationship are welcomed –…
Boris Johnson has waded into the diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, agreeing that the way Vladimir Putin is using the World Cup in Russia as a “PR exercise” is comparable to how Hitler used the 1936 Olympics. For their part, the Russian foreign ministry invited all…
After the Prime Minister spoke this afternoon, the response from the Russian government was swift. Their ambassador to the UK described the action as “hostile”.
Gary Gibbon
Mr Corbyn’s spokesman, briefing reporters after the Commons exchanges, suggested that the Labour leader was not convinced that the intelligence pointed without question to the Russian state as perpetrator of the act.
Dr Balbina Hwang, a senior adviser to US Ambassador Christopher Hill during his negotiations with North Korea.
Sir Andrew Wood, former British ambassador to Russia and associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, discusses the Sergei Skripal case.
Gary Gibbon
As Theresa May got Cabinet sign off for the “serious” and “ambitious” Brexit policy she’ll set out in her speech tomorrow, EU leaders have warned that her own red lines mean Britain is closing the door on itself.
While President Assad faces international condemnation there are plenty on his side who support him too. But of course it’s a very different picture for people trapped in rebel-held areas. This report contains distressing images from the start.
“Today we’ll see if Russia has a conscience” declared the US Ambassador to the UN this evening. All the while Syria has been pounding eastern Ghouta with warplanes and artillery guns. Activists and rescuers say around forty-one people have been killed today, taking the total this week to over 500. Warning: this report contains distressing…
Footage from Damascus shows the impact of rebel shelling in sites I visited within an hour of them being hit. The rebels – who include extremists linked to Al Qaeda – have been firing on a much smaller scale but it is bringing fear and shoring up support for President Assad.
You might remember him as “the man who broke the Bank of England”, but George Soros is also at the centre of dozens of conspiracy theories. Here’s why they don’t stack up.
An Iranian drone flies into Israeli airspace from Syria. It is shot down by an Israeli aircraft. Then an Israeli aircraft is shot down by forces backing the Assad regime. The Israelis launch attacks on 12 mainly Iranian targets around Damascus. The Russians say this poses an unacceptable threat to their soldiers. And it all…
Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Christopher Hill. discusses the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where North and South Korea marched together under a single flag.
African leaders have demanded that Donald Trump apologise over his alleged use of a vulgar term to describe their nations. The Ghanaian president called the words he is said to have used “extremely unfortunate” and 54 African ambassadors to the United Nations condemned what they said were his “outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks”. The US…