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When is it legal to kill someone in a drone strike?

Dr Peter Lee and Dr Alexander Leveringhaus on the circumstances which allow drone strikes

A committee of MPs has warned the government it needs to "urgently" clarify the law on military drone strikes.

Today programme reporter Sima Kotecha spoke to a man who controls drones in Afghanistan. Dr Peter Lee, a lecturer of military ethics at Portsmouth University, and Dr Alexander Leveringhaus, author of Ethics and Autonomous Weapons, discuss the ethics of drones.

(Image: Drone. Credit: PA)

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