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For five long days Eastern Ghouta’s four hundred thousand people have been in hiding from the constant torrent of Russian and Syrian bombs. Hardly a soul has been seen moving on what’s left of the streets. A world away in New York, stalemated diplomats are still meeting in the UN Security Council toiling to win…
Four hundred thousand people are living “in hell on earth”, the UN chief declared today – a “human tragedy that is unfolding in front of our eyes”. This is the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, where dozens more people were killed or injured today as the Syrian bombardment continued. Hospitals have become so overwhelmed…
Fighting has entered its third day as Turkish forces continue their ground and air offensive against US-backed Kurdish fighters in north-west Syria. The UN Security council will meet later tonight to discuss the situation, as leaders from Europe and NATO voiced their concerns, urging Turkey to respond in a “proportionate and measured way”. Syrian activists…
Gary Gibbon
A film about Boris Johnson’s last year or so in office, Blond Ambition, is on Channel 4 on Sunday night at 10pm. It’s the product of some brilliant and dogged work by Lottie Gammon, chasing down Boris Johnson when he didn’t particularly want our cameras on his case. Do watch it if you get the…
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
The United States has told China and Russia they must take “direct action” against North Korea, after its latest missile launch over Japan. The missile set off warning sirens as it flew 2,300 miles before landing in the sea off the island of Hokkaido. China condemned the launch, but with the United Nations Security Council due to meet again…
At the weekend, North Korea sent its most provocative message to date by testing what it claimed was a thermo-nuclear weapon. Today, the UN Security Council responded. US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said that North Korea “has slapped everybody in the face” with its latest nuclear test.
The United Nations Security Council is due to hold an emergency session in an attempt to ratchet down tensions in the Korean peninsula. Yesterday, North Korea tested a long-range missile which may be capable of reaching Alaska. The US and South Korea carried out their own missile drills in response, with the US Secretary of…
John Prendergast, former director of African affairs at the National Security Council.
Steve Bannon is the President’s chief strategist, with a regular seat on the powerful National Security Council. But his background as executive chair of the far-right Breitbart News website has made him a controversial appointment.
Jon Snow
Our unwritten constitution has been tested more in the past six months than at any other time in the past 60 years. It may be time, in this brave new world, to write down what some of these rules are.
Jon Snow
As his own inauguration speech made it clear – we can no longer expect America to deal with the crises that beset us.
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.
Lindsey Hilsum
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.
Jon Snow
Brexit might be heading for a costly pick and mix deal, perhaps denuded of the power to influence either the EU or, perhaps even more critically, the WTO