Page 62 - Arab Spring News Today

Gulf more generally and of course, those issues are linked to a whole range of other regional issues relevant to u. S. Foreign policy in the middle east from israel and the palestinian territories to the conflicts in siria, yemen and afghanistan and beyond, and to have a discussion on such an important and wideranging array of issues we have assembled a Real Dream Team of diplomats with experience in the region and im going introduce them briefly and trust me, introducing them in a timeefficient...

To Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website bellingcat. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, stephen sackur. What is the truth behind the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 or the poisoning of the former russian spy Sergei Skripal, or the recent assassination of a Chechen Rebel fighter in berlin. My guest today thinks he can piece together truths from the World Wide Web. He is Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website bellingcat. In an age beset by fake new...

It again ireland the irish tiger you remember this phrase that was used at the time and we were looking at what was the secret to how did ireland manage to transform its economy from that was basically very much agriculture based into a completely modern one so we had the benefit of having of looking at that what were your portuguese then decisions were taken to invest heavily in the technology in the infrastructure in the day the use of data and ideas as fundamental Building Blocks in the meant...

A member of the board responsible for maintenance of the basilica called the church the heart of the citys culture and faith is a matter of. State the responsibility Global Responsibility if i may say our forebears generation because we were too much patient are we our generation which. We had to have another friend of the math these. These plays their history the landmark basilica dates back to the 11th century its famous gold mosaics took hundreds of years to complete but such an important rel...

Weve assembled a dream team with experience in the region. Im going to introduce them briefly. And trust me, introducing them in a time efficient manner requires a lot of distlation of their incredible accomplishments across decades of u. S. Foreign service. Im going to start on my left, your right with ambassador gerald federstein who a veteran in the u. S. Foreign service. He was ambassador to yemen in the obama at ministration. Administration. From 20132016 has had many other crucial posts in...

Question is protests across the globe talking about a revolution. Thanks very much indeed for joining us here on to the point and here with me in the studio today. Bonhomme from lebanon who says we are witnessing a global you through belly and not seen since 968 and people in the middle east a finally breaking the fear bhartiya also with us is rick not from the Washington Post who argues that protesters share their frustrations with political systems that dont work in their favor but the solutio...

Iran. This event was held at the ol university of michigans ford school of a policy in ann arbor. Hello everybody and welcome. I would like first to add my thanks to the weiser family as well as to the American Academy of diplomacy with which weve been fortunate to partner to bring todays event together. The topic we will address is obviously timely and extremely important. Going to talk about us iran relations, the nuclear deal, politics and security y in the gulf more generally and of course t...

What we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes th...

The president of france says that nato is brain dead and that terrorism is now the enemy of the not russia and the neo mccall wants his criticism to be a wakeup call for the military alliance so what does it mean for nato future an organization the us president also once described as obsolete this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Adrian Finnegan after world war 2 and facing a rising threat from the soviet union a group of european and north american countries banded together and ...

Gaza is met with a barrage of rockets fired on israel. And get out while you can. Australians are urgeded to flee cataststrophic bushfires. One fire chief says its so bad that his crews are simply unable to stop the flames. Plus, half a Million People fighting to stay in the country that they call home. The u. S. Supreme Court Hearing arguments over the trump administrations decision to end protection for the children of undocumented migrants. The dreamers future hangs in the balance. Brent to o...