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Newshour: UK Criticised Over Change in Death Penalty Stance on IS suspects

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UK Criticised Over Change in Death Penalty Stance on IS suspects

23/07/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, UK Criticised Over Change in Death Penalty Stance on IS suspects

UK will not demand that the US does not use the death penalty against two IS suspects

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The British government has been criticised for dropping its opposition to the death penalty for two Islamic State suspects who may face trial in the United States.

Also in the programme: A sprawling settlement in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been demolished to make way for a new road, making 30 thousand people homeless; and what do Iranians make of tough talk out of the White House? 


(Photo: Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were captured by Syrian Kurdish forces. Credit: Reuters)

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