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Crimea: Russian forces are in control here, whatever Lavrov says
Sergei Lavrov says the military fatigues who have taken over Ukrainian military bases in Crimea are not Russian soldiers. One colonel tells me: “It’s a lie.”
The United Nations is to launch an investigation into alleged war crimes and continuing human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
As the UN prepares to launch an inquiry into allegations of war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News presents the evidence collected by this programme over the past five years.
Almost exactly five years after Sri Lanka’s civil war ended, the UN Human Rights Council is preparing to vote on a US and UK-led resolution which would mandate the UN to launch a war crimes inquiry.
Sergei Lavrov says the military fatigues who have taken over Ukrainian military bases in Crimea are not Russian soldiers. One colonel tells me: “It’s a lie.”
Here at Channel 4 News we try hard to keep the plight of people in the Central Africa Republic on the radar – and Monday’s UN report makes for sobering reading.
The escalating crisis in Crimea has set a number of western powers against Russia in a battle of words that includes threats of “costs” and allegations of illegal behaviour.
The priest told me he wasn’t blessing the Russian forces above the Ukrainians, but blessing them both and praying for peace.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, distribute food parcels to 18,000 isolated civilians in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.
Gaza’s kung-fu champion Arab Dola lies, back broken, in his bed – a literal representation of the paralysing poverty suffered by hundreds of thousands in the area.
The Syrian opposition says the government has failed to address President Bashar al-Assad’s political future at peace talks in Geneva.
Women are children will be allowed to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs, hopefully on Monday, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says following another day of struggling peace talks in Geneva.
On the first day of the Montreux peace talks, Syria’s foreign minister gets the prize for the most extravagant rhetoric in an opening speech. But he’s not the only one dwelling in fantasyland.
Representatives of the Syrian regime and opposition have agreed to hold direct talks following discussions at an international summit in Switzerland, according to Russia’s foreign minister.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem tells UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that “Syria always keeps its promise,” when asked to wrap up his opening speech at the Geneva II peace conference.
As a team of international war crimes prosecutors releases images appearing to show evidence of systematic killing in Syria, Channel 4 News asks if this week’s peace talks in Geneva are at risk.