Assad claims victory is close, have the West failed Syria? A virtual no show by the UK at an important Security conference and 20 years since the MOD gay ban was lifted.

Summary: The scale of the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Syria is hard to comprehend.   Close to 1-million civilians — the majority women and children — have fled towards the Turkish border in the depths of winter.  Western nations, though, appear unwilling to do anything. Could the war in Afghanistan be coming to an end? Sir William Patey talks about the impending peace deal. A lot has changed in the two decades since the government lifted the bar on gay and bisexual people serving in the armed forc