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  • 14 Feb 2017

    The President’s National Security Adviser, Mike Flynn, has had to resign over telephone conversations he held with the Russian ambassador before he was appointed to office.

  • 7 Feb 2017

    Ted Malloch, who’s worked as an adviser to Donald Trump and is being lined up to become the next US ambassador to the EU.

  • 4 Feb 2017

    We may be about to find out the limits of cozyness between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Fighting has flared up again this week in Eastern Ukraine. The UN has called it “A protracted humanitarian crisis”. And Trump’s ambassador at the UN Nikki Hayley blamed Russia for the new fighting – in a conflict which…

  • 26 Jan 2017

    Mrs May goes to Washington

    The prize of being first through the door has been grabbed in full knowledge that the rest of the world is waiting and measuring before even trying to march to President Trump’s side. Some countries, indeed, think the UK is acting with indecent and rather desperate haste to cosy up to the new US President.

  • 22 Jan 2017

    Interview with Ted Malloch, one of Trump’s advisors during the election campaign and now touted as the next US ambassador to the EU.

  • 17 Jan 2017

    Theresa May: Brexit means leaving the single market

    Theresa May said British voters in the referendum deemed the price of membership, freedom of movement and submission to EU laws, too great. In the years to come we will discover the price of benefits or leaving.

  • 8 Jan 2017

    Israel’s ambassador to the UK apologises after a senior diplomat was recorded saying he wanted to “take down” the Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan.

  • 5 Jan 2017

    Britain faces a “very hard Brexit”, according to the Norwegian prime minister who’s warned the UK has difficult task in negotiating its departure from the EU because it lacks the right experience.  The criticism comes just after the appointment of Britain’s new EU ambassador.

  • 4 Jan 2017

    Interview with US Ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun.

  • 3 Jan 2017

    Jon Snow interviews former British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, and former head of the CIA, Jim Woolsey Junior.

  • 20 Dec 2016

    Russia, Iran and Turkey say they’re ready to broker a deal to end the Syrian war after talks in Moscow held without the United States or the UN. The meeting went ahead despite yesterday’s assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey by an off-duty police officer who shouted “don’t forget Aleppo”.

  • 20 Dec 2016

    Perhaps the simpler explanation is the more likely one: children really are being orphaned in Syria, or left wounded and distressed, and those children are now being wrongly accused of involvement in an elaborate conspiracy.

  • 19 Dec 2016

    Thousands more civilians managed to leave rebel-held Aleppo today for relative safety, including a group of children who’d been trapped inside an orphanage.

  • 16 Dec 2016

    Channel 4 News filmmaker Wa’ad al Kateab, her doctor husband and 11-month-old baby girl are among up to 50,000 people still trapped inside the ever-shrinking enclave of rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

  • 15 Dec 2016

    From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction

    Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.