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21/08/2014

America says it launched a mission to rescue James Foley and his fellow hostages in Syria. Jeremy Bowen says he's never seen the Middle East as violent and unstable as it is now.

Tony Livesey and Eleanor Oldroyd with all the day's news and sport - today, America confirms it sent special forces troops on a mission to try to rescue James Foley and his fellow hostages from their Islamic State captors in Syria; our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen tells us "In all the years I've spent here, I've never seen a time when it's been this chaotic, violent, unstable & difficult"; Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pays tribute to his predecessor Albert Reynolds who's died - and we speak to Australian who's become the oldest man to swim the English Channel.

3 hours

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Thu 21 Aug 2014 06:00

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  • Thu 21 Aug 2014 06:00