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This film explores how the Spanish empire built its global dominance by fusing military conquest, religious conversion and imperial wealth.

The United States has realised it cannot keep “trying to police the whole world”, argues Victor Gao, the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.

More rockets have been launched as China continued its massive live-fire exercises off Taiwan. Beijing named the drills Justice Mission 2025 and they are widely seen as a show of force as China seeks to assert its claim that Taiwan is part of its sovereign territory. The drills come on the heels of an $11 billion arms deal between the United States and Taiwan. And although the US was not mentioned...

Yet another attempt to end a century-old border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand. Fighting is escalating, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes on both sides of the border Now the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is taking the lead in attempts to end the violence and reach a peace deal. All this comes after an attempt by US President Donald Trump to end the war...

The United States is reviving a policy first set out in the 1800s that treats Latin America as its strategic sphere of influence. As Washington expands maritime operations in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, critics warn of legal violations and rising regional instability.

Beyond armies and violence, France built its empire through language, schooling and cultural influence. This film explores how assimilation became a method of rule and a source of resistance.

Israel has carried out the biggest land grab in the occupied West Bank since the signing of the Oslo agreement more than three decades ago. The current right-wing government has accelerated the confiscation of Palestinian land to build new illegal settlements -- cutting deeper into Palestinian territory. At the same time, Israeli settler attacks are increasing in frequency and intensifying. For ma...

There are yet more signs that the US is disengaging from the global order established after World War Two. President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to pull out of more than 60 agencies, half of them part of the United Nations. Trump argues that being member of these organisations is contrary to his country's interests. The Secretary of State went as far as saying they're useless or wa...

It all began more than a decade ago. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the pillars of a coalition created to fight the Houthis who had taken control in Yemen. Over the years, that mission failed. Then the UAE set out to pursue its own long-term interests, by supporting and arming a group called the Southern Transitional Council in the south of Yemen. But Riyadh stepped in to disrupt w...

Phil Lavelle speaks with Nayna Gupta, Policy Director at the American Immigration Council, to unpack how ICE operates, the legal questions surrounding its authority, and how its actions affect both undocumented immigrants and Americans.

Millions of Americans are facing a huge increase in the amount they have to pay for health insurance. A dispute about government subsides for healthcare was one of the major issues that led to a 43-day shutdown of the U-S government last year- the longest in history. But even when the shutdown ended, Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on and extension of the the subsidies. As the clock stru...

This week's violence brings with it a sense of deja vu. This time it's the result of more fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces or SDF. It reflects a deep rift between the two sides and many rounds of talks have so far failed to reach common ground. The SDF seeks a decentralized system of government - with areas under its control having a certain level of autono...

Political tension and unrest in Bangladesh - after the assassination of a student leader of last year's uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina. Elections for a new government are due in February. So how volatile is the political situation now?

On Tuesday, Ukraine got yet another push from its western allies. A meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing in Paris pledged full support for Kyiiv in any future peace settlement to the ongoing war with Russia. The gathering stressed that Ukraine should be able to defend itself even after the fighting ends. France and the UK said a multinational force would be deployed if and when a peac...

Two words that largely define the economy right now: Global reordering. President Donald Trump's Tariffs have landed as a shock to global trade. This is 2025. Major economies are rewriting their playbooks, and alliances are being redrawn.

As this year is coming to an end, a deal between the Syrian government and the Kuridish-led Syrian Democratic Forces had been expected to come into force. Instead, fighting erupted between the two sides in the northern city of Aleppo. They later agreed to stop the fighting, while blaming each other for the violence. That deal was supposed to lead to the SDF integrating with the army, but it is sta...

The conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began more than two and a half years ago. This week, the prime minister presented a peace plan to the United Nations Security Council. It would see the RSF give up weapons and the territory it controls. The paramilitary group says it's 'closer to fantasy than to politics’. Millions of people are caught up in the fighting -- tens o...

The United States has realised it cannot keep “trying to police the whole world”, argues Victor Gao, the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.

US special forces capture Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro - in a daring attack that's taken the country and the world by surprise. He'd denied accusations by president Donald Trump of heading a narcotics cartel. So, what are the implications of Washington's actions?

A nation with the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is now at the centre of a high-stakes economic power play over energy supply - with global ramifications. The United States says it will control the sales and revenue of Venezuelan oil "indefinitely", days after it abducted the nation's President Nicolas Maduro. President Donald Trump wants US companies to invest billions of dollars to revi...

After months of Washington - with the help of much of the US mainstream media - manufacturing consent for a military intervention in Venezuela, last week American forces abducted the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and flew him to a prison in New York City. Now, the Trump administration is shifting the narrative away from the stated objective of striking a "narco-state" to the US taking contr...

In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called “ #MeToo ” swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world’s most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences?

Venezuela's closest ally Cuba is on edge after the capture of president Nicolas Maduro and US politicians' warnings to Havana. US president Donald Trump says Cuba is near collapse. So what are Washington's plans? And what's the thinking in Havana?

A masterclass in maritime power and corporate reach. From the legacy of the Armada to the rise of the East India Company, Britain fuses naval supremacy with global trade control and divide-and-rule governance. Case studies include India, Africa, and Atlantic circuits.

Mohamed Hassan sits down with Shockat Adam, Independent MP for Leicester South and founding member of Britain's Your Party. They discuss the rise of the far-right and its impact on the UK, including anti-immigration rhetoric and the place of British Muslims in UK politics.