UK Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-2015) - Tom Fletcher
The Interview3 Kesä 2016

UK Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-2015) - Tom Fletcher

Stephen Sackur speaks to Tom Fletcher who was appointed British Ambassador to Lebanon at the tender age of 36. Five years on he has just written an operational review of the UK’s Foreign Office. What is the point of the modern day diplomat? Theirs is a world of fortified embassies, chauffeured limousines, and elaborate protocol, but in this globalised internet age, what kind of value do they add? Is diplomacy as we know it dead?

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Carsten Breuer, the German chief of defence: Nato faces "very serious threat" from Russia

Carsten Breuer, the German chief of defence: Nato faces "very serious threat" from Russia

Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent, speaks to Carsten Breuer, the German chief of defence.General Carsten Breuer gives his assessment of the threat that Russia poses to the Western alliance Nat...

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Tom Fletcher, UN Humanitarian Chief: Is the world doing enough to get aid into Gaza?

Tom Fletcher, UN Humanitarian Chief: Is the world doing enough to get aid into Gaza?

Tom Fletcher, Chief of Humanitarian Affairs for the United Nations, tells Fergal Keane, the BBC’s special correspondent, that Israel is subjecting Gaza to enforced starvation. Gaza faced an aid blocka...

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Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services - what is the future of big tech?

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services - what is the future of big tech?

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Surviving Syria’s sectarian violence

Surviving Syria’s sectarian violence

Tim Franks speaks to a British-Syrian Alawite who came under attack, along with her family, during the sectarian violence on Syria’s coast in March.The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam and it...

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Dovilė Šakalienė, Defence Minister of Lithuania: Uncertain times for Europe

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BBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale speaks to Dovilė Šakalienė, Lithuania’s Defence Minister.The Baltic nation, along with its neighbours Latvia and Estonia, share a border with Russia, and have ...

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Doris Salcedo, Colombian artist - giving voice to victims of violence

Doris Salcedo, Colombian artist - giving voice to victims of violence

In an interview from the BBC’s This Cultural Life, presenter John Wilson speaks to the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Her work is a response to the devastation of war, and tells the stories of its ...

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Radosław Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland: Dealing with the growing threat from Russia

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Kasia Madera speaks to Radosław Sikorski, the Foreign Minister of Poland.As a key, long-term ally to Ukraine, Poland has played a pivotal role in supporting its neighbour following the full-scale inva...

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Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?

Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?

Nick Robinson speaks to Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.It’s 80 years since VE day marked the end of WW2 in Europe - and Sir John reflects on the lessons that should be rem...

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