The UN's comeback moment: will hope and history chime?
Should the American and Iranian presidents manage to grasp a handshake in the margins of the UN general assembly, it could prove the most important handshake since the ending of the cold war.
Should the American and Iranian presidents manage to grasp a handshake in the margins of the UN general assembly, it could prove the most important handshake since the ending of the cold war.
US President Barack Obama says negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme could be the first step on a long road to establishing a new relationship between the two old enemies.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
Syria’s deputy prime minister says that neither side in the country’s civil war is capable of winning a military victory – and that the government would call for a ceasefire.
Karen Abuzayd from the UN war crimes panel investigating 14 suspected chemical weapons sites across Syria tells Channel 4 News both sides have committed war crimes.
A UN inspectors’ report into the Damascus chemical weapons attack in August says there is “clear and convincing evidence” that sarin was used.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says any deal over Syria’s chemical weapons is not a “lifeline” to President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has “lost all legitimacy”.
The Syrian government welcomes the agreement to disarm their chemical weapons but the US warns Syria that it will take action if it fails to live up to its promises.
Monday’s UN inspectors’ report on the alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus will confirm that poison gas was used, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Grant Shapps hit back at the UN, saying UK courts approved the so-called “bedroom tax” policy. But Channel 4 News hears that lawyers are continuing to fight it on human rights grounds.
President Assad tells Russian TV that the threat of a US missile strike hasn’t influenced him at all, while the UN says it has received documentation on Syria joining the chemical weapons convention.
Tory chairman Grant Shapps calls for an investigation into the UN official who raised concerns about the so-called bedroom tax, saying she was influenced by “political bias”.
As negotiations continue over a UN resolution, Russia is reported to have shown the US its plan for placing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal under international control.
A newly bespectacled David Cameron claims US Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments that Syria could turn over its arsenal of chemical weapons to international control was discussed at the G20.
Russia says it is working on a “concrete plan” that would see Syria’s chemical weapons dismantled. How might this be achieved and what are the obstacles?