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Police in Mexico have been forced to release a man wanted on drugs charges after a huge street battle with cartel gunmen.

A fragile peace in northern Syria appears to have been shattered, with reports – denied by Turkey – that shelling has started again.

As Scotland’s First Minister sent her message of solidarity to the Catalans, hundreds of thousands brought the Spanish city of Barcelona to a standstill today after a general strike was announced.

 Donald Trump has described his decision to withdraw American troops from Syria as “strategically brilliant”, declaring that the Kurds he had abandoned were “much safer now” and were  “not angels” anyway.

Besieged Idlib is now controlled in large part by a coalition of jihadi groups and rebels. With more than four million people still trapped there, with limited access to food and medicines, the most vulnerable are the children. We have been looking at how the youngest victims of war are managing to survive. The filmmaker is Fadi Al Halabi.

Tom Tugendhat is the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Lizzie Irvine is a British volunteer with the Kurds in northern Syria. We asked her what the situation was on the ground.

The UN has warned that Turkey could be “deemed responsible” for alleged summary executions that may amount to war crimes, while Britain has banned all new arms sales to Ankara, but has stopped short of putting a halt to shipments of arms already ordered.

Andrew Mitchell is a former International Development Secretary.

Andrey Kortunov is director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, the country’s leading foreign affairs think tank, which is backed by the Kremlin.

The parents of 19-year-old Harry Dunn say the American suspect in the crash which caused his death should return to the UK to face justice, saying it’s the “right thing to do”.

The former president of Spain’s Catalonia region has condemned the long prison sentences handed down to leaders of the 2017 separatist movement, calling them unfair and inhumane.

Egemen Bagis is a former Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs.

Jan Egeland is a former UN Special Adviser on Syria and UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, and is currently Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Dozens of civilians have been killed and injured in Turkish attacks and tens of thousands of people have fled their homes because of the danger.