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Afghanistan: Biden’s refusal to extend withdrawal deadline ‘a bad outcome’ for Johnson
We spoke to Kim Darroch, who was the British Ambassador to the United States, and Michael McKinley who was the US Ambassador to Afghanistan.
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Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Nuclear threat means relations between Russia and Nato must not get any worse, ex-US ambassador warns
Ivo Daalder was the US ambassador to Nato under the Obama administration.
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Belarus accused of ‘state-sponsored hijack’ of plane after journalist arrest
State-sponsored “hijacking”, “piracy” and even “terrorism” are the accusations against Belarus.
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‘If they are not going to make negotiations it will head to civil war“ – Myanmar former UK ambassador
The UN human rights office says it fears the situation in Myanmar could escalate into a civil conflict similar to that seen in Syria due to the clampdown on protests by the military there.
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Myanmar: Ex-ambassador says he spent night in car after being locked out of London embassy
Eleven more anti-coup protesters are reported to have been killed by security forces in Myanmar – more than 600 people have died so far in the crackdown.
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Scale of drop in UK exports to EU ‘shocking’, says former UK diplomat Sir Simon Fraser
Sir Simon Fraser is a former permanent under secretary at the Foreign Office who also worked at the European Commission on trade matters, and David O’Sullivan is an Irish diplomat who served as the EU’s Ambassador to the US .
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10 years of hell: Is the dream of a different Syria still alive?
In today’s Fourcast, Waad and Hamza Al-Kateab describe the defining moments of the revolution through their eyes and discuss whether the dream of a different Syria is still alive after ten years of war.
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2021: Former Syrian official convicted by German court in first case of its kind
Today, a German court found a former member of President Assad’s secret police guilty of facilitating the torture of prisoners.
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The Queen praises the resilience of people in the UK and around the world in her annual Christmas speech
The Queen praised the resilience of people in the UK and around the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says there’s a ‘narrow path’ to Brexit deal
Some MEPs are now questioning whether there’s enough time left for the European Parliament to ratify a deal.
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UK PM and EU chief say conditions for finalising post-Brexit trade deal ‘are not there’
“The conditions for finalising an agreement are not there” – that’s the conclusion of the latest high-level phone call between Boris Johnson and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.
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Former UK Ambassador to the US, Lord Kim Darroch says UK’s relationship with US will remain strong whoever wins election
We’re joined by the former British ambassador to the United States, and author of ‘Collateral Damage’, Lord Kim Darroch.
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Uyghur activist says: ‘We can call this a genocide’
We spoke to Aziz Isa Elkun, a London-based Uyghur academic and activist.
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Investigating airstrikes on hospitals in Syria
The provinces of Aleppo and Idlib in the north-west of the Syria are the last remaining areas held by rebel forces. As the Assad regime pushes to reclaim them almost a million civilians have been displaced. Hundreds of thousands of people are still fleeing north to the Turkish border.