The House of Commons held a three-hour emergency debate on Tuesday on the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Aleppo and Syria. An emergency debate is usually called at short notice about an urgent internal matter, so it is unusual to have an emergency debate on international affairs. Politicians at home and abroad have called for a no-fly zone over Syria and the provision of safe havens for fleeing refugees. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs that Russia's actions in Syria amount to 'war crimes’. Reportedly, sixteen people were killed by heavy bombing which targeted besieged rebel-held neighbourhoods, The former deputy supreme Allied commander of Nato said that the British should ‘absolutely’ be training other armed forces in the war-torn country and should occupy the skies to enforce a no-fly zone. See article 7 in the World section.