In May, Trump faces a bigger deadline on whether to waive sanctions on Tehran; and, given his very public displeasure with the nuclear agreement, the prospects do not look good.
Observers believe the tensions between the two countries are driven largely by domestic US politics. Trump has recently replaced members of his administration that advocated the nuclear deal with hardliners who are calling for scrapping it. Iran, in turn, has indicated that it would not feel bound by the deal at all if the US walks away from it.
Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Washington.
As tensions heighten between Vladimir Putin and Western leaders, Gabriel Gatehouse takes a look into Russia's power structure and how much control President Putin really has over the factions that surround him. The film does contain some flashing images.
The February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar until February 1918) began on March 8, 1917 (or February 23 on the Julian calendar), when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now called St. Petersburg).
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was said to be a major factor to the February Revolutions of 1917. The events of Bloody Sunday triggered a line of protests. A council of workers called the St. Petersburg Soviet was created in all this chaos, and the beginning of a communist political protest had begun.
Overview. The Russian Revolution took place in 1917, during the final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first Communist state.
1917 Russian Revolution. The 1917 Russian Revolution was not, as many people suppose, one well organised event in which Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power.
Bolshevik, ( Russian: “One of the Majority”) , plural Bolsheviks, or Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
Is ageing a disease? One that can be 'cured'? BBC's Gabriela Torres meets the self-experimenters and scientists who are trying to dramatically extend our lives.
In the days after World War II, a convenient story was told of church leaders and ordinary Christians that defied the Nazis from the beginning. Recent research has uncovered a very different story. Rather than resisting, the greater part of the German church saw Hitler's rise in 1933 as an act of God's blessing, a new chapter in the story of God among the German people.
This film, based on ground-breaking research, introduces the viewer to three of the greatest Christian scholars of the twentieth century: Paul Althaus, Emanuel Hirsch, and Gerhard Kittel, men who were also outspoken supporters of Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1933 Althaus spoke of Hitler's rise as "a gift and miracle of God." Hirsch saw 1933 as a "sunrise of divine goodness." And Kittel, the editor of the standard reference work on the Jewish background of the New Testament, began working for the Nazis to find a "moral" rationale for the destruction of European Jewry.
This provocative film asks: how could something like this happen in the heart of Christian Europe? Could it happen again? How does the scholarship of this period affect the church today? Does the church of today retain the ability to recognize profound evil?
Douglas Murray's speciality is in intelligently pointing out the blindingly obvious to all the bone headed careerists within politics, academia and the media. If nothing else the inability of the established classes to deal with this issue has revealed how incapable and unremarkable they are.
China has reminded the world it has a crucial role in any nuclear bomb and missile talks before Kim Jong Un's planned summits with both the South Korean and American Presidents. The North Korean leader's secretive talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing — which were not confirmed until he returned home — appear aimed at improving the leverage of both countries.
Ties between the long-time allies frayed recently as China supported tougher UN sanctions on North Korea and suspended coal and iron ore imports. Over the past couple of days in Beijing, it's all smiles and friendly handshakes.
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam | Guests: Chad O'Carroll - Director of news site NK News; Einar Tangen - Chinese government adviser; Karl Friedhoff - Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Religious extremists are gaining increasing influence in Bosnia. Social workers are trying to keep young people away from radical Islamist preachers.
Bosnian social worker Vahidin Omanovic warns young people about the dangers of religious extremism, and offers them the vision of a peaceful future. 20 years after the end of the Bosnian War, his country still suffers from high unemployment and political stagnation. He’s worried by conservative Islamist preacher Elvedin Pezić, who's now popular with many young Bosnian Muslims. Pezić rejects violence, but advocates Sharia law and an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that has its origins in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have promoted the spread of this variety of the faith in Bosnia and many other countries by financing the construction of mosques and supporting conservative imams.
Three years after launching air strikes in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is under attack. Houthi rebels targeted Riyadh and three other Saudi cities as they step up their response to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman defends his country's military intervention in the conflict in 2015, saying "the options are between bad and worse".
After three years the situation could not be any worse. About 10,000 killed in the fighting, thousands more dead from the worst recorded outbreak of cholera, and millions facing famine.
The UN calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. And the complex relationships and divisions of all those involved in the conflict make any hope of a settlement even more remote.
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam | Guests: Mohammed Jumeh, columnist and editor at the Al Quds newspaper; Adam Baron, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations; Suze van Meegen, protection and advocacy adviser at the Norwegian Refugee Council
Could the Brexit vote be invalid? Claims by an insider that the Vote Leave campaign may have broken British spending laws could call into question the entire Brexit vote. The CBC’s Wendy Mesley talks to British Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, who says he’s outraged that Theresa May’s government isn’t doing enough about it.
On March 22, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted the minister of foreign affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H.E. Adel Al-Jubeir, for an Alan and Jane Batkin International Leaders Forum. In his remarks, the foreign minister provided perspectives on Saudi Arabia’s role as a regional leader for stability and reconstruction.
It was an abrupt end, by tweet. After months of speculation and denial, Donald Trump turned to Twitter to fire America's top diplomat.
Democrats say the loss of Rex Tillerson is yet another sign of chaos in the White House. Trump blames policy differences and lack of "personal chemistry" for the departure of the US Secretary of State.
The president's choice to replace him is CIA Director Mike Pompeo - whom he says, shares the same 'thought process'.
Will Rex Tillerson’s replacement toe the line with the President’s vision for foreign policy?
Presenter: Laura Kyle | Guests: Michael O'Hanlon - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; James Moran - Associate Senior Research Fellow, Center of European Policy Studies; Glenn Carle - Former CIA officer
'The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First' and 'To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran' are just two of the articles penned by John Bolton in leading US newspapers over the years.
Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser appears to match the President's confrontational views on the rest of the world.
This muscular stance often rejects consensus-building and supports using American economic and military power to punish anyone who doesn't fall in line.
What signal is the White House sending to the rest of the world now?
Presenter: Sohail Rahman | Guests: Jim Walsh, Senior Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program; Evan Resnick, Coordinator in the United States Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; Ali Fathollah-Nejad - Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
In this week’s UpFront, we discuss reform in Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the country's role in the war in Yemen.
Debating in a Special Arena are self-exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, founder of the Arabia Foundation Ali Shihabi, and the executive director for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, Sarah Leah Whitson.
And as Donald Trump takes full credit for 2017 economic growth in the United States, we set the record straight with a Reality Check on the “Trump Bump”.
This week's Question Time, filmed in Leeds. Topics include the row over Facebook data being harvested by Cambridge Analytica, and the generational divide over Brexit. Panellists: James Cleverly MP (Conservative Party), Shami Chakrabarti (Labour Party), Stewart McDonald MP (SNP), Peter Hitchens, Paris Lees
