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‘At least 49 dead’ in Syrian protests
A prominent activist says at least 49 people have been killed in demonstrations across Syria – the highest death toll in a single day since protests against Bashar al-Assad’s rule erupted last month.
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’Sign of the times’ as Trump tells Christians they won’t need to vote again if he wins
We are joined by Laura Blumenfeld, who’s a Middle East Analyst at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a former American ambassador who is now President of The Middle East Policy Council.
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FactCheck: why has Iran just fired drones and missiles at Israel and does it make a wider war more likely?
Why are Iran and Israel so hostile to one another, and what could last night’s events mean for the prospects of a wider war in the Middle East?
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UK and US accuse Chinese state-linked hackers of cyber attacks
America and Britain have combined to accuse hackers affiliated to the Chinese state of targeting democratic institutions in both countries.
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UK government will have to ‘adapt its policy towards Israel’ following ICJ report, says former security adviser to PM
Neither the Government nor anyone from the Labour party were available to come on the programme but earlier we spoke to Sir Mark Lyall Grant, a former security adviser for the prime minister and former UK ambassador to the UN.
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No one in Gaza can speak openly against Hamas, says senior Israeli advisor Mark Regev
We talk to Mark Regev, senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to the UK.
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FactCheck: what is a war crime and did Hamas commit war crimes in its attack on Israel?
This is what the laws of war say.
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Arab states ‘coming to terms’ with Syrian war, says former Middle East minister
We spoke to Alistair Burt, who was the UK’s Middle East minister for much of the time the Syrian Civil War was raging. We began by asking him whether Assad’s appearance will give reassurance to President Putin.
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Zelenskyy’s surprise appearance at Arab League meeting
The United States is backing an international plan to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets due to begin in the next few weeks.
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Syria earthquake: ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ says Brit-Syrian survivor
The United Nations says it is working urgently to get more aid into northern Syria, where areas devastated by the earthquake have seen little help. Rebel-held towns like Jandaris – close to the Turkish border – have had to make do without any of the supplies, heavy machinery and international rescue teams that have been…
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Earthquake: Emergency upon emergency as crisis hits war-torn Syria
In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.
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Ukraine’s fast-track application to Nato will ‘stoke tensions’, says US Institute of Peace
The UK has ramped up sanctions against Russia in response to President Putin’s illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine.
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Russia ‘won’t receive weapons from China’ if US threaten economic sanctions
We’re joined by Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Students – and John Herbst, who is a former US ambassador to Ukraine and now a director of the Atlantic Council.
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Russia-Ukraine conflict: Western sanctions so far are ‘embarrassment’, former US Nato rep says
As Russia’s stranglehold on Ukraine tightens, much of the world is looking for clues to President Russia’s aggressive intent.
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FactCheck: what’s happening in Ukraine and what do sanctions on Russia mean?
FactCheck takes a look.