The Obama administration have all but admitted that their attempts to re-start the Middle East peace process have failed. The State department are now advocating a new tactic – where both sides take “baby steps” toward lower level talks because they know there is no chance of getting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to sit down…
Channel 4 News reporter Lindsey Hilsum examines the shrinking number of options available to the US in Afghanistan.
Jon Snow
This G20 exists at so many levels. Take Brazil’s President Lula. Fearless campaigner against the carbon footprint. But having flown from Brazil to Doha and Doha to Paris, today he abandoned his plane, sending it empty to London while he took the train. But the high spot thus far has been the Obama-Brown press conference.…
As you’re reading this, a young Iranian-American journalist called Roxana Saberi is alone in Evin prison in Tehran, waiting to find out her fate. I met Roxana Saberi a few years ago – dynamic and full of enthusiasm, she was just the kind of person who wouldn’t give up despite the myriad obstacles the Iranian government…
SHANGHAI, CHINA – How is it that the country with one of the poorest populations in the world is the biggest lender to the richest? How can it be that apparently one of the prime agenda items for Mrs Clinton’s Chinese visit was her indebtedness to her country’s indebtedness. Well, welcome to Chimerica. It’s the…
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Hillary Clinton has landed in Jakarta and she says it’s no accident that it is one of the countries she is visiting on her very first trip abroad as US Sec of State. She specifically mentioned the fact that Pres Obama lived in Indonesia as a child. Which will increase speculation about…