Neave Barker

Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English Journalist ex Moscow, London now Doha. Politics, People, Culture. #News @AJEnglish - views my own.

[Neve Gordon @nevegordon]

Ok get this, the pilots who drop two ton bombs on residential buildings killing scores of children, women and men in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran earned tens of thousands of dollars from betting on the war. How sick can these pilots get?

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Qatari air defence intercepts projectiles in the skies over Doha

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/GtbNxpQZ18

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

I asked Vladimir Putin: “What future are you planning, are you building for your country?” Here’s his full reply.

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

A solid defense of the BBC

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The Baltic states say Russia is testing NATO by flying jets and drones into their airspace. But how should NATO respond? Shooting down rogue aircraft is one answer - but that could have dire consequences.

Watch Pinch Point with @NeaveBarker ⤵️

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

[Otto English @Otto_English]

This is disgusting racism from a former MP.

Cannot be allowed to pass.

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

Did anyone tell you sir that “ targeted strikes against nuclear facilities” are prohibited under article 56 of the additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions to which Germany is a party, and that the use of force in international relations is generally prohibited in article 2(4) of the @UN Charter with the exception of the right of self defense in the case of armed attack or upon authorization by the Security Council in the case of collective security action.

You might want to familiarize yourself with the basic tenets of international law…
#Israel
#Iran

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Every week, the number of protesters in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa carrying pictures of Gaza children murdered by Israel grows.

They congregated in their hundreds. Now they congregate in their thousands.

A thin ray of light in the endless darkness

Stop the genocide!

[Steve in Toffeeland. @marrtoffee]

Letter from today’s Times

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

My interview with Muhammad Yunus on Al Jazeera

[Talk to Al Jazeera @TalktoAlJazeera]

Following mass protests and the toppling of a Bangladeshi leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus steps in to guide the nation in crisis.

Can he deliver real reform or is it just a reshuffling of elites?

Watch the exclusive interview on Talk to Al Jazeera: https://t.co/q4bq981euV

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

@Cioccolata234 lol Of course i do. But it still means “father”.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

China absolutely unafraid of America.

The creditor speaks.

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

Extraordinary @metpoliceuk Please show your workings out! Worrying new low @mediaquaker

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

🚨 BREAKING

Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide.

On 27 March, more than 20 officers - some carrying tasers - reportedly forced their way into Westminster Meeting House in central London.
According to Quakers in Britain, the officers “broke open the front door without warning or ringing the bell first, searching the whole building and arresting six women attending the meeting in a hired room”.
Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.”
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when society criminalises protest.”

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

Who exactly DID you mean then JD? Who else has offered to put boots on the ground in Ukraine? Insulting countries that have lost lives sending their troops into battle alongside US troops shows extraordinary ignorance. You are single-handedly undoing every meaningful alliance the US has ever made.

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

What ARE you on about. Britain is a mongrel nation - it has been for millennia.

Try reading around your whimpering racism. What are you scared of?

Let’s start with some Defoe. From the poem - true Born Englishman.

For Englishmen to boast of generation,
Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.
A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction,
In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Last night, settlers, backed, escorted, and with full cooperation with the Israeli army, attacked Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

In  Sabastiya, a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by soldiers. In Sinjil, six Palestinians were injured by Molotov cocktails, and in numerous intersections, settlers rioted and threw stones at Palestinian vehicles.

While the deal progresses, the settlers' rioters are clear: to impose a "price tag" for the release of Palestinians from Israeli prisons

[Neave Barker @NeaveBarker]

@lewis_goodall @clarissaward Are you serious @lewis_goodall ?? sitting in the Al Jazeera newsroom with the entire team appalled by the crass crusading weirdness of this report. Can’t help but smell a rat. Please prove us wrong.

[Talk to Al Jazeera @TalktoAlJazeera]

What’s it like to be called a self-hating Jew? Producer Erin Axelman & @simonerzim open up on the backlash they faced from conservative Jewish communities while making Israelism, a documentary that challenges deeply rooted beliefs.

Watch the interview: https://t.co/HeSPNbNE6K