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Syrian refugee Hassan Akkad: ‘Cripple Assad’s power or war will not end’
Journalist and author Simon Jenkins has argued that the best way to end the Syrian war is to let Assad win. Syrian refugee Hassan Akkad supports military intervention.
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Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko: ‘No proof’ Sergei Skripal ill in hospital
Before the announcement from the Met Police about Nikolai Glushkov, Cathy Newman went to the Russian Embassy in London to speak to the Ambassador. I began by asking him what he made of the UK Government’s accusations that the Russian state was behind the Salisbury attack.
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Assad determined to finish battle
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from the Syrian capital Damascus.
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Samantha Power: ‘It would have been tricky to use force against Assad’
There’s a new glimpse into the final months of the last American President in a fly-on-the-wall documentary that’s just been released. The Final Year follows Barack Obama’s foreign policy team as they race to secure his goals on the world stage, with the clock ticking down to election day. One of that team’s central figures was the PulitzerPrize-winning author and youngest…
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WikiLeaks lobbied for Assange ambassador role
Having been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over five years, you’d think the last place WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would want to go is another embassy. But it’s emerged that WikiLeaks lobbied the Trump campaign to get them to publicly endorse Julian Assange as a candidate to be Australia’s next ambassador…
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Edgar Vasquez: ‘Iran has propped up Assad regime’
Edgar Vasquez, US State Department spokesman for Near Eastern Affairs, discusses Iran’s role in Syria and the nuclear deal.
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Rights group files war crimes charges against Sri Lankan ambassador
The Sri Lankan government has denied its ambassador to Brazil is on the run, after a human rights group filed war crimes charges against him there.
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Former US Ambassador Ronald Neumann
Joining me from Washington is the former Ambassador Ronald Neumann, who also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
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Ambassador Pasquale Terracciano: ‘Italy cannot cope with migrant crisis’
Italian Ambassador to the UK, Pasquale Terracciano, says the UN has conceded that his country cannot cope on its own with the migrant crisis. He says without European solidarity, Italy’s ports will be overwhelmed.
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Trump: Assad would pay a ‘heavy price’ for chemical attack
The White House has issued a very public threat to the Assad regime in Syria. The Trump administration says Syria’s Government appears to be preparing chemical weapons for an attack and warned it would pay a “heavy price” if one takes place. A warning: this report contains disturbing images.
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Assad responds to chemical attack claims
We have no chemical weapons any more and even if we did, we wouldn’t use them. Syria’s president Assad has dismissed reports that his forces were behind last week’s chemical attack which left 82 people dead – as “100% fabrication”.
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FactCheck: Assad’s implausible claims about chemical weapons
President Assad contradicted previous statements on Khan Sheikhun made by his allies in Moscow and members of his own government.
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Trump strikes Assad over chemical attack
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of an “act of aggression against a sovereign nation” after its missile strike on Syria.
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Assad suspected of chemical attack in Syria
Tonight President Trump has called the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria an affront to humanity, saying his attitude towards Syria and President Assad had now “changed very much”.
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Brexit: UK ambassador fallout continues
In the last hour, the Foreign Office has confirmed that Britain has a new Ambassador to the EU. Just a day after Sir Ivan Rogers suddenly resigned from the job, Theresa May has appointed another career diplomat, Sir Tim Barrow, to take over the post.