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Syrian rebels said to control β€œmost” of Aleppo

A review of the week with the latest news.

We discuss with our guests the largest offensive by rebel forces against the Syrian government in years and the first time rebels fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad have reached Aleppo since being forced out by the army in 2016.

Also in the programme: Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, had dinner with Donald Trump in Florida on Friday evening. Earlier this week, the US president elect, Donald Trump, threatened a giant 25 per cent tariff on every single product exported from both Canada and Mexico; and this week an international conference took place in Cambodia to examine why - more than 25 years after a major agreement to end the use of anti-personnel landmines as a weapon of war - such weapons are still a key part of many armies across the world.

To discuss this and more, our two guests, Gloria Dickie, global climate and environment correspondent for the Reuters News Agency, and Nick Westcott, professor of practice in the department of politics and international studies at SOAS, University of London . PHOTO CREDIT: Rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in al-Rashideen, Aleppo province, Syria November 29, 2024 / REUTERS

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