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Hello and welcome to the Sunday with Neil Patterson podcast.

The UK has joined the US and France in targeted strikes in Syria

after the Assad regime carried out a chemical weapons attack on its own people.

To discuss this and what happens next, I was joined by the First Minister of Scotland,

Nicholas Sturgeon and Labour's Richard Bergen.

Last weekend, up to 75 people were killed in a chemical attack in the Syrian town of Duma, near the capital Damascus.

The UK government and its allies have pinned blame on the Syrian regime, led by, of course, Bashar al-Assad,

though he and his Russian backers, of course, deny any responsibility.

In response, after a week of delays, debates and speculation,

the US, UK and France launched a series of missiles.

They targeted research facilities and storage sites

in an attempt to hamper Assad's ability to launch chemical attacks.

Afterwards, it was proclaimed a success by President Trump and the Prime Minister

Theresa May. She said that while regime change was not the goal, she was left with no alternative

to the use of force. But she has come in for criticism at home after joining a military

operation without first consulting parliament, breaking a convention established with the Iraq

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