Does 'new politics' bring new thinking on Iran?
Amid the thrill of the “new politics”, is there the slightest possibility of any UK “new thinking” about Iran? asks Jon Snow.
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Amid the thrill of the “new politics”, is there the slightest possibility of any UK “new thinking” about Iran? asks Jon Snow.
Sri Lanka’s victory over the Tamil Tigers was so decisive that other nations are now citing the “Sri Lanka option” as a model for crushing rebellion, writes Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller.
Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…
Last night I found myself in the ornate circumstance of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. I also found myself too in the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order. For this was an event in which the old world of European kings and queens were making way for a citizen of the…
Dozens of journalists have descended on Geneva for what’s expected to be the most futile diplomatic encounter of the year. The Iranian nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, is to meet what some call the P5+1 and others the E3+3. That means the permanent five of the UN Security Council plus Germany, or – if you’d rather…
This final session of the Pontignano conference is dominated by Obama: whether he will “make it”. Consensus is that on health care, on a domestic climate change bill, and even in terms of economic recovery, he will…eventually (though he’ll need two terms). How the participants here love Obama – he really does walk on water…
On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes…
Okay, so how scared should we be by North Korea’s nuclear brinksmanship? On the face of it, it’s not looking good. First, there’s the (still unconfirmed) nuclear test detonation on Sunday, followed by five short-range missile launches on Monday and Tuesday. And today, reports that North Korea may have restarted its Yongbyon plant which makes weapons-grade…
We obtained some disturbing footage of apparent attacks on Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka yesterday. The pictures – many of which we didn’t broadcast because they were too gruesome – showed rows of dead children, who had allegedly been killed by government shelling of the supposed “safe area” in the north of the island. Note…
What next in Iran’s nuclear plan? President Ahmadinejad says “we don’t have to tell you everything”. Science Correspondent Julian Rush visits a civil nuclear power station on the Persian Gulf coast.
We were joined by the shadow Foreign secretary – and former deputy Foreign Secretary – Andrew Mitchell.
At the UN in midtown Manhattan, the US and France are reported to be leading a new diplomatic effort to end hostilities in both Gaza and Lebanon.
We’re joined by Sir William Patey, the former British Ambassador to several countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, who is at Labour Conference with the Labour Middle East Council.
How do these unprecedented attacks fit in with the rules of war?
We were joined from Tel Aviv by Ronen Bergman, journalist and author of ‘Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations.