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The world’s richest nations are divided over military action in Syria, with US President Obama and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in disagreement over whether the Assad regime has used chemical weapons.

The government is ditching plans to award legal aid contracts to the lowest bidders, following criticisms it would reduce justice to a “factory mentality”, according to reports.

Following his Commons defeat, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News he doesn’t want to “quibble about it for days on end”, adding the British public is deeply sceptical about Syrian intervention.

As David Cameron shrugs off his Syria defeat in the Commons, Channel 4 News examines why and how the crucial vote on military action was lost – and the key players behind the event.

Cabinet minister Ken Clarke tells Jon Snow that the US wanted an early vote by the UK on any joint military action over Syria, and rejects American reports that David Cameron “mishandled” the issue.

The number of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war has topped two million, the UN’s refugee agency says, in what it is calling the “great tragedy of this century”.

The government’s attempts to clean up political lobbying are condemned by charities as the Commons debates the proposed reforms.

President Barack Obama says he is confident that congress will vote in favour of military action and that the US will “degrade” President Bashar al-Assad’s capabilities.