2 June 2016
Episode 1167
30 minutes
Mary Dejevsky and Phil Clark join Tom Edwards to discuss the day’s top news. As Germany declares the killing of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, we ask how Turkey will respond. Plus: we look at humanitarian intervention in Syria and hear Hillary Clinton’s views on Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
2 June 2016
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