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When the spokesman becomes the headline it’s never a good idea. Today White House spokesman Sean Spicer admitted he had “screwed up” – by saying Adolf Hitler had never used chemical weapons “against his own people”, like Syria’s president Assad.

There was no special friendship award this time: the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met the Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, at a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to a new low.

Interview with the political commentator and Trump supporter, Scottie Nell Hughes.

Initially it was a story about a man being dragged off a plane because his flight was overbooked. Then, as the phone footage of the incident went viral, it became a costly PR disaster for the airline, and the would-be passenger also found himself thrust under a global spotlight.

Republican commentator Ann Coulter, a long-time supporter of President Trump but a critic of the air strikes he launched in Syria, and Dr Jan Halper-Hayes, an adviser to the President’s administration who supports the strikes.

North Korea is firmly in the current fray. It has accused the United States of being “reckless” and “foolish” after President Trump ordered an aircraft carrier to sail into waters just off the Korean peninsula.

A video posted on Facebook last night has gone viral after showing a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville in the United States being forcibly removed from the plane before takeoff.

Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, and Dmitry Babich of Sputnik news debate the response to US strikes on Syria.

In a deliberate echo of presidential phrases, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah today issued a joint statement condemning the US missile strike on Syria as having crossed “a red line”.

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has cancelled a planned trip to Moscow tomorrow, saying Russia’s continued defence of President Assad after the chemical weapons attack was “deplorable”.

Bassma Kodmani, who is a member of the official Syrian opposition delegation of negotiators and founded the Arab Reform Initiative.

President Trump prides himself on his unpredictability. Well, last night he proved the point.

The former chief spokesman for the US State Department, Jamie Rubin, and the Russian political scientist Sergey Markov.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of an “act of aggression against a sovereign nation” after its missile strike on Syria.

Joining us from Central London is Karen von Hippel, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the US State Department and director of the foreign policy think tank, the Royal United Services Institute.  And from Abu Dhabi, the US diplomat Ali Khedery who was a special assistant to five American ambassadors in Iraq, and…