Since President Rodrigo Duterte took power in the Philippines his administration has been surrounded in controversy, firstly for his heavy handed stance on drugs which has seen the murdering of drug dealers and users become commonplace without repercussions for those committing such murders.Now we see the biggest crisis to hit the young administration, a full blown war in Marawi City. The war
The relationship between China and North Korea has always been complicated, China's Mao Zedong famously said that the two countries were as close as lips and teeth. A relationship forged in blood and steel during the Korean War against the United States.The leaders of China and North Korea have kept up that appearance of brotherhood since the times of Mao and North Koreas founder Kim Il-sung a
North Korea has just tested a nuclear bomb which is believed to be 10 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima. Kim Jong Un versus Donald Trump is the most dangerous stand off seen in decades and people are no longer asking if the hermit kingdom can be stopped from developing nuclear weapons, but rather it can be prevented from using them.So how did North Korea achieve it's nuclear a
In the Northern Irish conflict spying was a very dangerous game, through recordings obtained by Panorama the IRA's chief interrogator explains how he extracted information from informers before they were shot. This may seem typical given the circumstances of war except that for years the interrogator himself was one of Britain's most important spies.Codenamed Stakeknife, he was unmaske
On the morning of the 26th May, 1940, an order was transmitted from Admiralty building in London, to a secret headquarters in Dover. The order stated that the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force should begin from the port of Dunkirk and the beaches near by.A vast armada of ships was approaching the French coast to facilitate the evacuation, codename Operation Dynamo took place over 1
This film follows Brendan, Gerald and Tom all of whom are former volunteers of the Irish Republican Army or IRA. For these men and all Irish Republicans alike the period of armed struggle is now over, but for those who were directly involved in the 30 years of war how difficult is it now to find peace?Today all these men are now Black Taxi drivers and operate within the Republican areas of Bel
The Tuol Sleng secondary school is hidden behind a fence in a quite district of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. It has been empty for over 40 years, a silent witness to the agony of a nation. Thousands of men, women and children were tortured in it's classrooms, they were then driven to the outskirts of the city and executed.Nearly 2 million people died in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, a q
The U.S. Army Rangers are an elite military formation that serve in designated U.S. Army Ranger units or are graduates from the U.S. Army Ranger School. This film The Ranger is a unique documentary which was created by Emmy Award Winning Director, Robert Ham for the All Warrior Network. In it we hear the brutally honest and deeply heartfelt story of Chris Bemiss who himself was a U.S. Army Ranger.
The the night of August 22, 1991, a crowd of Russians began removing a 14 tone bronze statue in a major Moscow intersection. It was an act that years earlier would surely have cost them their lives, but on this night as democracy was budding the Soviet Union the statue itself represented all that was wrong with the country.For those attending the affair the statues removal signified the end of a