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Syria intervention ; Chelsea Manning

Do you want your country to intervene in Syria after claims chemical weapons killed hundreds? Also, Bradley Manning says he felt female since childhood & hopes to become a woman

Would you want your country to intervene in Syria? UK, France and Turkey are leading calls for an international response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria on Wednesday. Activists say hundreds were killed in the attack. How should the international community should react to this? Also, as he starts a 35 year prison sentence for leaking secret US government documents, Bradley Manning has released a statement saying he has felt female since childhood and now hopes to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible to become a woman called Chelsea.

Picture credit: Civilians watch as Civil Defence members search the rubble for missing casualties in a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

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