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Ben Emmerson QC

HARDtalk meets British lawyer Ben Emmerson QC. He says drone strikes simply breed more terror - but does he really know what's best in the struggle to make the world a safer place?

When a US drone kills a jihadi militant in Pakistan has a law been broken? What if the missile kills women and children too? Who can be held to account? HARDtalk speaks to Ben Emmerson, the British lawyer addressing these questions for the United Nations. He says drone strikes and other exceptional counter terror measures simply breed more terror - but does this liberal lawyer really know what's best in the struggle to make the world a safer place?

30 minutes

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Fri 10 Jan 2014 04:30GMT

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