Lindsey Hilsum
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Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor, and author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin.’ New book coming in September.
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No tomato shortage here - but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket.
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Sorry I can’t. Too busy fleeing Rojava, leaving Kurdish friends to the mercy of Assad and the military assault started when you told Erdogan you wanted out of ‘endless wars’.
Vote for good guy
@seanspicer
tonight on Dancing With The Stars. He has always been there for us!
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We were in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers - and a kitten called Olenka. ‘If we win my children will live in freedom’ says Vadym. Then we came under fire…
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We got hold of Israel’s dossier against UNRWA - why did the donors including the UK withdraw funding on such flimsy unproven allegations before an investigation?
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This is Lviv: while doing your Christmas shopping before leaving Ukraine, you turn a corner and come across three military funerals.
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Mykola, Romana and Oleksander. Aged 13, 16 and 15. They just escaped Mariupol. They stayed in a bunker for weeks. Some days they had only uncooked pasta to eat. ‘Our town doesn’t exist anymore’. More
@Channel4News
tonight at 7pm.
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For
#InternationalWomensDay
, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier in
#Mykolaiv
presented me with a bunch of… honey! He apologised that he had no tulips. Very touched!
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Pakistani ISI Chief Faiz Hameed just arrived in Kabul Serena Hotel. Told me he was here to meet Pakistani Ambassador - wouldn’t say he was meeting Taliban leadership (but he must be of course!)
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Buiding a seaport for aid into Gaza City will take months during which many more children will die of malnutrition. But if Israel opened the Erez Crossing and cleared the road, aid could be sent in by truck now, and save lives immediately. So why isn't the US insisting on that?
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Meet Vadym and his kitten Olenka in their trench in Donetsk. We spent a few hours there and saw how tough and dangerous it is. Ukrainian soldiers will be fighting there all winter. More
@Channel4News
tonight at 7.
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I cross the river from Rojava into Iraqi Kurdistan in shame and sorrow. Our Kurdish friends risk being killed by Turkey or Assad. The British govt that supported them in the fight against ISIS alongside the US has abandoned them. It is shameful.
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Hard to see how this ‘urgent message’ will get to the citizens of Gaza as the Israelis cut internet and mobile phone
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Driving across Ukraine it’s easy to understand why they chose their 🇺🇦
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Worried about the unexplained disappeared from
@LBC
of
@SangitaMyska
. She’s a brave, principled journalist and an excellent broadcaster. Listeners will be missing her. What’s the explanation?
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Thinking today of
#MarieColvin
who was killed in Baba Amr, Homs in Syria 11 yrs ago today. She was a great journalist and friend. Her legacy is with the
@MarieColvinNet
which supports female journalists in the Arab world.
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This is unbearable. The journalists of Gaza are unbelieveably brave. This man has endured too much.
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This is what would have been happening in Odesa this weekend - if Putin hadn’t decided to invade Ukraine
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Tonight
@Channel4News
I’m reporting on the 130 bodies of Russian soldiers the Ukrainian military are storing in Kyiv. Will the Russian authorities agree to their repatriation - and tell the families that their sons and fathers are dead?
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Today
#Mykolaiv
Governor Vitaliy Kim told me there were about 1000 Russian units in the region, that Ukrainians have captured ‘dozens’ of Russian soldiers and ‘we’re not going to surrender, we’re going to attack’.
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Is
@Twitter
bowing to an Indian government request to remove the account of
@washingtonpost
columnist, the brave reporter Rana Ayyub?
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Tonight
@Channel4News
I’m reporting on
#coronavirus
spreading in Iran, including audio of a desperate doctor who says his hospital is losing 20 or 30 patients a day. “It’s a disaster. It’s worse than the war.” A few days after the recording he also died.
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Yesterday we reported how dangerous it is to stay in
#Mariupol
. Today we discovered how dangerous it is to leave. These kids were shot on the way out. Now they’re in a sandbagged hospital ward. More
@Channel4News
tonight at 7pm.
#UkraineRussiaWar
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This is a great piece about my friend and journalistic twin
@bbclysedoucet
, whose calm humanity shines through her broadcasting
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So much for Putin’s ‘de-nazification’ of Ukraine.
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This is a big historic win for South Africa and many will say for international justice. Judges called for immediate protection of Palestinians in Gaza from potential genocide by Israel, and required Israel to report back to court in a month. This is huge.
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Thank you all for concern about our safety when debris from Iron Dome landed nearby while we were on air
@Channel4News
.
@C4annalisa
@JoshHo_
and Nava Mizrahi brilliant calm team. And it is nothing compared to what the ppl of Gaza are enduring day and night. Think of them not us.
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I am back home from Ukraine for a few weeks. No more poetry tweets for a while! But normal service will be resumed after a break.
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The rough guide to Putin’s speech: Degradation of western morality, NATO was about to attack us, Kyiv was going to get nuclear weapons, we’re fighting neo-Nazis, the Donbas is Russian, it’s a continuation of the Great Patriotic War. Here’s a military parade. That’s about it.
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We joined a mixed military/civilian convoy heading towards Ras al Ayn. We did not go all the way. As they entered the front line town a Turkish airstrike hit. I don’t know how many of these people survived.
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Always a pleasure to see the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko
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As the conflict in the Middle East threatens to spread, I keep thinking of Yehuda Amichai’s poem ‘The diameter of the bomb’ translated by Ted Hughes.
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As I drive around Kyiv, I see how difficult it is for Russian tanks to enter. Forest on either side of roads in. Bridges. Flyovers. High rises ideal for snipers. So artillery and airstrikes only option. To save the village we had to destroy it - as they said in Vietnam.
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It’s possible to hold more than one idea in your head at the same time. Iranians might be angry both that the US killed General Soleimani AND that their own govt shot down a civilian plane and tried to cover it up in a botched retaliation. This is not contradictory.
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The idea that you can be horrified by both the slaughter of Israeli civilians AND the bombing of Gazan civilians shld not be controversial. Polarisation is damaging. Good piece by
@arusbridger
.
"Modern political debate assumes that you have to sign up to one camp or the other. But I suspect most people feeling horror-struck by what they’re currently seeing in Gaza were equally disgusted by the Hamas atrocities on 7 Oct" My column
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Tonight
@Channel4News
I’m reporting on the investigation into
@UNRWA
by three outside organisations. Israel provided no evidence that their staff members took part in the Sept 7 attacks - so will the UK now resume funding?
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Extraordinary brave work by my colleague Yousef Hammash in
#Gaza
“Pure panic everywhere you look.”
Inside the Gaza siege - a resident’s eyewitness report by Yousef Hammash.
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17 year old Bohdan and his 16 year old brother Ruslan fell upon a hot meal in Zaporizhzhia after fleeing Mariupol today. They say they were strip-searched and interrogated by Russian soldiers, escaping conscription because they were under 18. More
@Channel4News
tonight
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An unexpected bonus of doing the newspaper review
@BBCRadio4
BH this morning was running into my journalistic twin
@bbclysedoucet
. After a terrible year reporting wars in Ukraine, Gaza & Sudan may there be some good news in 2024.
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I have read more male twitter outrage about Australia refusing to play cricket against the Afghan team than about the Taliban excluding girls from school and university, and women from work.
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Was glad to sign this.
@SangitaMyska
is an excellent journalist and broadcaster
Sangita Myska: Over 100 media personalities sign open letter supporting former LBC journalist
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Today we interviewed the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitchko, as he visited one of the apartment blocks hit by Russian artillery in the early hours. More
@Channel4News
tonight.
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There was no collusion! But
@bbclaurak
@maitlis
and I do look a little flag-like as we wait for the
@realDonaldTrump
@10DowningStreet
presser conference.
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Worth remembering that
@PrivateEyeNews
was way ahead on this, running stories about the injustice done to post masters and mistresses for years before others noticed or cared.
The full story of the Horizon Post Office scandal as seen on
#MrBatesVsThePostOffice
is now available as a free download on the Eye website here:
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I remember so well the day that picture was taken!
#MarieColvin
was so determined to get to the bottom of what had happened in
#Jenin
. How distressed she would have been to see how things have deteriorated in the West Bank and Gaza since then.
📷 An iconic picture of
@lindseyhilsum
&
#MarieColvin
reporting on the destruction in
#Jenin
refugee camp following a large scale Israeli military incursion in the
#WestBank
back in 2002. If Marie were alive today, she would be reporting on the destruction & suffering in
#Gaza
.
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It was both uplifting and unmeasurably sad to attend George Alagiah’s memorial service at St Martin-in-the-fields today. “In his reporting there was always the outstretched hand of a shared humanity,” said Allan Little.
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She was a role model for many
@MarieColvinNet
members, and much admired. Eye-witnesses say Israeli soldiers shot her in the head. Her flak jacket was clearly marked ‘Press’.
MCJN expresses its deepest condolences to our members for the death of their colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh,
@AJArabic
correspondent, whom witnesses said was killed by Israeli soldiers this morning.
For our full statement:
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Sensitive piece by
@MarinaHyde
. The problem with all this talk about the Prime Minister being a “fighter” is that it implies that those who die of
#coronavirus
- or any other disease - didn’t fight hard enough, as if it’s their fault. It isn’t.
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The war the world forgot - my
@Channel4News
report on
#Darfur
#Sudan
: massacres go scarcely reported and it's the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world today
@jengels92
@Zahra_ZW
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We at
@Channel4News
signed this letter of solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza.
Leaders of >30 news organizations from across the world, including BBC, ITN, ITV News & CNN sign open letter coordinated by CPJ affirming their solidarity with journalists reporting in
#Gaza
.
#pressfreedom
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As we leave Ukraine, I’m haunted by 18 year old Yana, whom we met in the ruins of an apartment block in Sviatogirsk, Donetsk. Without water or electricity she does her makeup every day to ‘relieve stress’. She hopes to study international relations. Picture by
@munksoren
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Amazing scenes out of Iran
When the news came out that students were protesting inside Sharif University & under siege by security forces, ppl rushed to the neighboring streets & showed their anger & concern for students by blowing horns. Just magnificent!
#MahsaAmini
#مهسا_امینی
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Pretty shocking: attack on the
@UNRWA
office in Jerusalem
This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem.
This took place while UNRWA and other UN Agencies’ staff were on the compound.
While there were no casualties among our staff, the fire caused extensive damage…
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This is just extraordinary. On no planet are the PKK a greater threat than ISIS. They’re not even a greater threat to Turkey let alone the US, where they’re no threat at all. Trump parroting Erdogan.
President Trump: “PKK (Kurds) are a greater threat than ISIS.” Not a single National Security adviser to the president would agree with that statement. Turkish talking point.
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We’re leaving Afghanistan after two weeks, hoping to be back soon to report on this beautiful, tragic country. But the dual-national Afghans leaving on
#QatarAirways
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Amazing photo
Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan has won “photo of the year” at the Siena International Photo Awards 2021 with this picture of a Syrian refugee boy and his father in Reyhanli, Turkey. via
@Saeed_Alnahhal
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I’m in Kabul - seeing water-melons everywhere. And they’re delicious!
Watermelon season in Afghanistan and a man selling varieties of it in Kabul streets. 🍉
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Israel did not express concern about UNRWA staff since 2011, independent review finds - and fails to provide evidence to back up claim that
@UNRWA
is infiltrated by terrorists. So will UK resume funding?
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This woman is unbelievably brave
Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who ran onto a live state TV news broadcast, even recorded a message beforehand. In it, she says her father is Ukrainian. She calls for anti-war protests, says she’s ashamed about working for Kremlin propaganda, and she denounces the war absolutely.
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Our report on the overnight Israeli raid in
#Rafah
that rescued two hostages but killed 67 Gazans. ‘If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,’ said the EU’s
@JosepBorrellF
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In 1993 I met Chief Jack, who led a cult that worshipped Prince Philip on the Vanuatu island of Tanna. They will certainly be mourning today.
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Tonight’s tension on the border between Serbia and Kosovo indicates that Russia may be considering other fronts; if the war in Ukraine is not going their way, they might stir up allies like Serbia to re-open old fault-lines. Worrying times for European leaders.
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Back in
#Ukraine
- so at the railway station, instead of a timetable there’s a notice with instructions on how to attack a Russian tank
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In
#Omdurman
, I was able to meet up with
@ZeinabMSalih
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#Sudan
for
@guardian
. Like other members of
@MarieColvinNet
she undergoes the danger and discomfort of reporting war all the time, while I visit only briefly.
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Believe me: there is no genocide in Donbas. I was in Rwanda. I know what genocide looks like.
🇷🇺Ambassador
#Kelin
to
@Channel4News
: Those who suggest there is no genocide in Donbas should go to the demarcation line and ask the 4 million people living close to the frontline, how many civilians were killed by the Ukrainian army, and whether they want peace or war.
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Ukrainian journalists are bravely telling the story of the deadly Russian assault on their country. And some are paying the ultimate price. Kuvshynova was working for the US network
@FoxNews
Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova was killed today in Kyiv oblast. The third death of journalists in this war after Russian shells.
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We went to Blahodatne, the first village to be recaptured in the Ukrainian counter-offensive. A tired National Guardsman, a deserted home, and pickle jars abandoned by a villager. More
@Channel4News
tonight.
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Hard to believe tomorrow marks 12 years since my friend
#MarieColvin
was killed in Syria. I joined with
@bbclysedoucet
and Jane Wellesley to found
@MarieColvinNet
supporting Arab women journalists. I think she'd be proud of our members in Gaza - and worried for their safety
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Staff at British embassy in Ukraine not offered refuge in UK, say diplomats | The Independent
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It is hard to understand why the British government has not paid the debt it owes Iran for tanks purchased before the Islamc Revolution and never delivered. The amount has been agreed. There are ways round sanctions. And it could make all the difference to Nazanin and others.
Richard Ratcliffe and his daughter Gabriella sit outside the Foreign Office during the candlelight vigil this eve. Ratcliffe continues his hungerstrike to continue to highlight the situation of his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, still detained in Iran. Pics
@Alamy_Editorial
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Nazanin!!
It's been 6 long years - and I can't believe I can FINALLY share this photo.
Nazanin is now in the air flying away from 6 years of hell in Iran.
My heart goes out to Gabriella and Richard, as her long journey back home to them gets closer by the minute.
#NazaninIsFree
❤️
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World leaders don’t normally travel to war zones. Shows how strongly they want to show solidarity with Zelenskyy and Ukraine.
BREAKING: Leaders of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia traveling to Kyiv on European Union mission to show support for Ukraine as capital is being hit by Russian airstrikes. (CORRECTS Slovakia to Slovenia.)
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Today marks the 9th anniversary of the murder of the journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, who were killed by a Syrian government rocket fired into the besieged enclave of Baba Amr in Homs. Many many Syrians have been killed since that terrible day.
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The story of how Alphonse lost his feet after he was deported from
#Tunisia
to
#Algeria
is truly shocking. Yet European politicians seem to have no pity for
#African
#migrants
. More
@Channel4News
tonight. With
@hodgerob
@munksoren
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This is why Israel’s policy in Gaza is unlikely to work. It is engendering grief and resentment and fury for years to come
I will never ever forget you. I will never forgive your killers. And I will keep your memory alive.
My father, Nasri Alnaouq, age 75
My sister, Walaa Alazayizi, age 36
Her children:
-Raghd Alazayizi, age 13
-Eslam Alazayizi, age 12
-Sara Alazayizi, age 9
-Abdullah Alazayizi,…
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More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to
@pressfreedom
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Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. We’re reporting from the border with Chad - the war is causing famine and driving people to flee. We were here with
@AndrewmitchMP
announcing new British aid - but only a ceasefire can really help. With
@munksoren
@Zahra_ZW
War and hunger force hundreds of thousands to flee Sudan
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Just arrived by bus in Zaporizhzhia - more than 50 civilians from the Azovstal Steel plant in Mariupol including this little boy.
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I feel so sad to leave Qamishli. The Rojava administration made a huge mistake to stick so closely to the PKK, but they created a statelet which was peaceful and fairer than anywhere else in Syria. Kurdish friends crying tonight, condemned to violence and repression.
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As we enter the third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I’m thinking about the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 at the same point. In Ukraine I have been travelling in the east and south. In Iraq I was in Baghdad. 1/8
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Today is the 8th anniversary of the death of
#MarieColvin
, killed by Syrian government forces in Baba Amr, Homs. We set up
@MarieColvinNet
to help aspiring female journalists in the Arab world, reporting in Marie’s tradition.
@bbclysedoucet
@reflextv
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“They didn't want to leave. They were kicked out of their homes and taken by force.” Natalia told me Russian troops forced residents of Mariupol to go to Russian-controlled areas. More
@Channel4News
tonight.
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One of the lovely things about driving through
#Ukraine
: the mistletoe that hangs in so many trees.
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How can Israel turn back an aid truck bcs it contains medical scissors?
#Gaza
: an entire population depends on humanitarian assistance for survival. Very little comes in & restrictions increase.
A truck loaded with aid has just been turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits.
Medical scissors are now added to a long list of…
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"There will be no Arabs in Gaza." Tonight
@Channel4News
I'm reporting on last night's rightwing conference in Jerusalem. It was attended by 10 government ministers, though its aim of expelling Palestinians and resettling Gaza is against official government policy.
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Britain is as shameful as the US in its betrayal of the Kurdish-led forces who defeated ISIS partly on our behalf. We refused to help them as they guarded British jihadis. Then we threw them to the wolves, Erdogan and Assad.
At the Nato Parliamentary Assembly in London, UK Def Sec Ben Wallace was asked about Turkey’s action in Syria.
He said: “We have reiterated as a country our view that Turkey must take due regard to the treatment of civilians and human rights”
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This lovely family survived 2 months in the Azovstal Steelworks bunker in Mariupol. ‘We bonded as a family playing cards,’ said Yegor, the father. ‘The worst thing was no internet!’ said 12 year old Artem. Worse than the bombs? Apparently!
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Obama and Bush both had opportunities to kill
#Suleimani
but chose not to bcs of likely consequences.
@realDonaldTrump
does not appear to worry about that.
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man. President Zelenskiy still refuses American entreaties to leave Kyiv for somewhere safer.
⚡️Zelensky posts another video filmed in central Kyiv.
"There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said.
"I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state."
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Oh no - more journalists killed.
BREAKING:
Journalists Rabih Maamari & Farah Omar killed in Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon.
Bringing the total number of journalists killed since the war on
#Gaza
started up to 56.
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As we went on air
@channel4news
#Prigozhin
was approaching Moscow and the Chechens heading for Rostov. By the time we came off air half an hour later, Prigozhin had stood down, the mutiny was over and Ukrainian forces had crossed the Dniper!
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The BBC World Service, radio and TV, is the best ambassador Britain could ever have. I have spent a lifetime travelling, relying on it myself, and meeting people who see it as a consistent source of high quality news and information.
BBC World Service to cut almost 300 jobs in 'digital-first' £28.5m saving drive
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Today I insisted on doing a happy story
@Channel4News
: the Presidents of
#Ethiopia
and
#Eritrea
have celebrated Ethiopian Coptic New Year together, on the border which is no longer disputed. They announced that troops will be withdrawn from both side. Peace!
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