UK Column News - 14th July 2023

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Vanessa Beeley with today’s UK Column News.

 

BBC Loses Media Accreditation in Syria Due To Terrorist Documentary

00:38 BBC World Service Documentaries: Captagon: Inside Syria’s drug trafficking empire (BBC iPlayer / YouTube)

LinkedIn: Tim Awford—Executive Editor, BBC Arabic Service

BBC: Syria cancels BBC media accreditation

Twitter: Center for International Policy (@CIPolicy)

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: Syria

OCCRP: Explore the global assets of Russia's oligarchs and enablers 

GOV.UK: Tackling the illicit drug trade fuelling Assad's war machine 

 

Fear And Loathing In Vilnius 

18:22 10 Downing Street on Twitter: Photo of an embracing hug with Zelensky and Sunak

Washington Post: Zelensky’s angry tweet on NATO membership nearly backfired

Sky: UK not an Amazon delivery service for weapons to Ukraine, says defence secretary Ben Wallace

Chay Bowes on Twitter: 

One's banned all opposition,

The other's trying to jail his,

One’s cancelled elections,

The other pays him billions,

One’s a corrupt actor playing President,

The other reads instructions from cue cards and is obviously demented. 

The "Guardians of freedom" indeed.

Reuters: France to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles

Barron’s: First French Long-range Missiles Already In Ukraine

AFP News Agency: France has already made a delivery of a number of SCALP long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

Ukraine Weapons Tracker: The remains of a UK-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile used by the Ukrainian Air Force to strike the Berdyansk airfield

MBDA: MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles

Rishi Sunak: ”NATO is where Ukraine belongs

GOV.UK: Joint Declaration of Support for Ukraine 

U.S. Department of Defense: Biden Approves Mobilization of Reserves to Support Eucom

Independent: Sunak seeks reaffirmation on Nato commitment to Ukraine membership

Russian Embassy comment on UK leadership’s statements at the NATO Summit 

21st Century Wire: Scott Ritter Investigation: 'Agent Zelensky'—Part 1

 

FBI-SBU Doxing And Censorship Operation Against American Citizens

37:44 New York Post:  FBI facilitated social media ‘takedown requests’ made by Ukrainian spy agency

Reuters: Ukraine receives cluster munitions, pledges limited use

TASS: Russian senate speaker says sending cluster munitions to Ukraine would be war crime 

UK Column Interview: Queer Theory—The Attack on the Minds of Our Children: Kim Isherwood

UK Column Interview: An inquest denied—Matt Campbell demands 9/11 answers

 

Study Finds, Modelling Suggests: Fear

50:32 VOA: Influencers Overtaking Journalists as News Source, Study Finds

Forbes (2015): Americans Trust Jon Stewart More Than Bloomberg And The Economist

Invesco: Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study 2023

The Guardian: London at risk of major measles outbreak, UK Health Security Agency warns

GOV.UK: London at risk of measles outbreaks with modelling estimating tens of thousands of cases

Invesco: Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study 2023

The Guardian: London at risk of major measles outbreak, UK Health Security Agency warns

GOV.UK: London at risk of measles outbreaks, with modelling estimating tens of thousands of cases