Syria sends troops back to Druze heartland

The US says it brokered a deal between Israel and Damascus, allowing the Syrian government to deploy a new force to the Druze capital of Sweida, following days of sectarian clashes in the country’s south. One member of Sweida’s Druze community tells us the city is in a humanitarian ‘disaster area’, after government forces attacked its primary hospital earlier this week.

Also in the programme: We ask how does Russia see Europe and the European Union; and Trump sues the WSJ and its owners over claims he wrote a letter to the late sex offender Jeffery Epstein, what do his supporters think?

Joining presenter Paul Henley are Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relation in Berlin and David Patrikarakos, British author and journalist and Special Correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper, here in the UK.

(Picture: Bedouin fighters standing on a highway. Credit: Reuters)