Middle East headaches | Dominic Raab, Emily Thornberry & Lisa Nandy

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab refuses to endorse President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry criticises the Prime Minister for remaining on holiday during the crisis. Thornberry and Lisa Nandy lay out their respective pitches to be the next Labour leader.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engel.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.7	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim
0:28.0	wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Safie Bridge on Sunday podcast,
0:35.4	the first of 2020, with tensions in the Middle East reaching dangerously high levels.
0:40.5	We have the perfect line-up to dissect what is going on, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and the Shadde Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry.
0:47.4	We also heard from the Labour leadership contender, Lisa Nandi. Well, we're joined, as usual on the podcast by Matthew Lavender.
1:01.9	Hello, happy new year.
1:03.0	Happy new year.
1:04.5	No Toby Skullthop today.
1:05.8	He actually has got quite a genuine reason, which is he's just got loads of work on.
1:09.7	Well, also, he tells us, yes, there is no Toby because he's busy on other even more
1:14.9	important projects, but he will be back, we are assured, in not too long.
1:19.9	How was your New Year and Christmas break?
1:22.4	It was good, it was good.
1:23.6	It was, I have to say, quite nice not to have too much politics going on. I think last
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