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Podcast: BFBS Sitrep
Episode: Assad claims victory is close, have the West failed Syria? A virtual no show by the UK at an important Security conference and 20 years since the M...
Description: The scale of the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Syria is hard to comprehend.  Close to 1-million civilians — the majority women and children — have fled towards the Turkish border in the depths of winter. Western nations, though, appear unwilling to do anything. Germany’s president criticises the US, and Mike Pompeo insists the transatlantic alliance remains strong. We’ll look at those competing claims, and why the UK only sent a very junior representative to the first big international security conference since Brexit.  Sir William Patey talks about the impending peace deal in Afghanistan, the way the...