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10/03/2019 GMT

Former UN chief prosecutor calls for Assad to face justice

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Ex-UN official calls for prosecution of Assad; UK's first black publisher's anthology

Former UN Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, calls for Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to face trial for war crimes.

Also, Britain's first black female publisher Margaret Busby, on her new anthology of female writers of African descent.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Diane Roberts, Professor of Creative Writing at Florida State University, and George Parker, political editor of the London-based Financial Times newspaper.

(Image: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. Credit: AFP)

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