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The World Tonight: Will US respond to renewed Syria chemical attacks?

Will US respond to renewed Syria chemical attacks?

05/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Will US respond to renewed Syria chemical attacks?

US blames Russia as UN security council fails to agree motion on Syrian attacks.

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Reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria have been discussed by the UN Security council. We ask if there's any likelihood of an international intervention? The Transport Secretary tells us why the East Coast Mainline may have to be taken back into government control. Also Brazil battles to contain a spike in Yellow fever. And on the eve the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which gave some women the right to vote, we remember Countess Markievicz, the first woman to be elected to the Commons.
Picture: A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a make-shift hospital following a reported gas attack in the eastern Ghouta area of Damascus
Credit: Getty.

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