Neave Barker
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Neave Barker
@NeaveBarker
Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English Journalist ex Moscow, London now Doha. Politics, People, Culture. #News @AJEnglish - views my own.


The situation in the Middle East has escalated dramatically overnight. Israel has carried out targeted strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran is responding with hundreds of drone attacks on Israel. This development is more than alarming. @AussenMinDE 1/3

Following mass protests and the toppling of a Bangladeshi leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus steps in to guide the nation in crisis. Can he deliver real reform or is it just a reshuffling of elites? Watch the exclusive interview on Talk to Al Jazeera: aje.io/MYunus



🚨 BREAKING Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide. On 27 March, more than 20 officers - some carrying tasers - reportedly forced their way into Westminster Meeting House in central London. According to Quakers in Britain, the officers “broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room”. Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.” “This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when society criminalises protest.”


Bad news for Starmer and Macron. Vance confirms the only US security guarantee in Ukraine will be the mineral deal. He also plays down British & French peacekeeping troops as “20k troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.


Today I have decided to return to calling myself English because I am. Born in England, makes me English. 🙌🏾



"Syria is free." Extraordinary moment as @clarissaward and her team witness a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret prison in Damascus. Left alone for days without food, water or light, the man was unaware Bashar al-Assad's regime had fallen.













