Seven million Syrians have been displaced and more than 100,000 killed in the ongoing civil war, nearly one third of the country’s population, with the international community still divided on how to reduce the bloodshed.
The UK is to propose a UN Security Council resolution today which would authorise “necessary measures to protect civilians” in Syria.
The West has been united in its condemnation of the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, laying the blame squarely on Assad’s forces, but Russia has downplayed the importance of the attack and the need for international military intervention in the ongoing civil war.
French prosecutors are investigating an incident of police brutality caught on video, where a police officer is seen repeatedly beating a black woman with his baton and spraying her point-blank in the face with some form of pepper spray or tear gas.
Alongside the outrage, there is also a certain gratitude towards Snowden in some quarters for providing information about what has been going on, including a surprisingly broad spectrum of politicians are calling for him to be offered political asylum