Unreported World
(2000)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 25
Inside the K-pop Dream Machine
Episode 5 - 5-24-2024
As the Korean Wave takes the world by storm, Krishnan Guru-Murthy explores the high-pressure K-pop dance schools of Seoul. Is the cost of fame worth it?
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Romania's Timber Mafia
Episode 4 - 5-17-2024
High in the Carpathian Mountains, reporter Amelia Jenne tracks the illegal logging trade. With one of Europe's last virgin forests at risk, whistleblowers face beatings and death threats.
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Divorce Mauritania Style
Episode 3 - 5-10-2024
In Mauritania, women are ditching their husbands and throwing parties to celebrate. Reporter Ayshah Tull explores the country's thriving divorce economy.
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Haiti: Pregnant and on the Run
Episode 2 - 4-26-2024
Unreported World meets the pregnant women fleeing war-torn Haiti. But reporter Guillermo Galdos discovers an immigration crackdown at neighbouring Dominican Republic's hospital doors.
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Campus Wars USA
Episode 1 - 4-19-2024
Across the US, a battle is raging on university campuses over freedom of speech as students divided by the conflict in Gaza fight for their voices to be heard.
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Season 24
Sweden: A Gangster's Paradise
Episode 11 - 12-01-2023
A look at how Sweden has become a deadly hot spot for drug-war gun crime
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Inside Romania's Witch School
Episode 10 - 11-24-2023
A woman claiming to be Europe's most powerful witch bids to open a witch school in Romania
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Taiwan - Prepping for War
Episode 9 - 11-10-2023
Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the Taiwanese civilians preparing for Chinese invasion
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Mexico's Exotic Pet Trade
Episode 8 - 10-27-2023
Inside Mexico's illegal pet scene, where owning a lion or tiger is a lifestyle accessory
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Kenya's Christian Death Cult
Episode 7 - 10-20-2023
Did a Kenyan preacher cause hundreds of people to take their lives, or was it mass murder?
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Drag Queen Culture Wars
Episode 6 - 5-19-2023
In Tennessee, drag queens performing for children have created a political flashpoint
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Drag Queen Culture Wars
Episode 5 - 5-19-2023
From Tennessee, where drag queens performing for children have created a political flashpoint. Minnie Stephenson reports from the latest frontline of America's culture war.
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India's Leopard Attacks
Episode 4 - 5-12-2023
Reporter Mandakini Gahlot investigates the alarming rise of leopards attacking humans, as expanding cities impinge on the predator's natural hunting grounds.
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Inside Little North Korea
Episode 3 - 4-28-2023
In Kyoto, Japan, a Korean community with a network of schools and businesses has a tight bond with North Korea. But rising regional tensions is putting their way of life at risk.
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Your Phone's Dirty Gold
Episode 2 - 4-21-2023
Guillermo Galdos investigates how illegal Amazonian gold could be in your smart phone, as he follows Brazilian police cracking down on unlawful mining in protected Indigenous regions.
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The Bank Raiders of Beirut
Episode 1 - 4-14-2023
Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the unlikely bandits of Beirut, as a desperate middle-class couple prepare to raid a bank to access their savings amid Lebanon's shocking bank crisis.
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Season 23
Mexico's Psychedelic Toads
Episode 12 - 12-09-2022
Guillermo Galdos reports on a psychedelic drug derived from toad venom, being sold in Mexico as a possible cure for mental illness and drug addiction. Galdos meets meets controversial doctor Gerry Sandoval, who demonstrates how he catches toads and extracts their venom as he claims the popularity of the natural drug has now made it more valuable than gold on the black market. Concerns are now mounting around the safety and sustainability of the unregulated drug, amid fears of negative long-term effects.
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Kenya's Bandits and Poachers
Episode 11 - 12-02-2022
How, in Kenya, tensions over food are getting deadly as the Horn of Africa suffers its worst drought in 40 years. Reporter Seyi Rhodes travels the length of the country following herdsmen, farmers, and poachers - all competing with each other to survive on a shrinking supply of fertile land. In Turkana, Seyi discovers a dystopian scene, where grasslands have turned to dust and it is impossible to grow the land or raise cattle. For many poaching has become a necessity, placing the inhabitants of Tsava National Park, one of the world's biggest game reserves, at risk.
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Gaza: Daring To Dream
Episode 10 - 11-25-2022
A report on Gaza's underground art scene, within which young Gazans are trying to express themselves in the face of an Israeli blockade. As Jonathan Miller discovers, simple pleasures - such as going to the cinema or putting on a play - can be a risky endeavour. Nineteen-year-old singer and actress Rahaf, is just one person whose career has been forced underground, running the gauntlet of Gaza's morality police.
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Teen Mums: Pregnant and Trapped
Episode 9 - 11-11-2022
Events taking place in Guatemala, where a silent crisis of abuse and child pregnancies is robbing a generation of their youth. Reporter Anja Popp discovers that girls in rural districts are particularly vulnerable, with no phone signal and no neighbours. She follows one dedicated case worker trying to reverse deep-rooted attitudes towards women in a country still reeling from the legacy of a brutal civil war.
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Secrets of Sumo Wrestling
Episode 8 - 11-04-2022
Sumo wrestling is a centuries-old tradition that has its roots in the Shinto religion. Its top wrestlers hold God-like status. All aspiring wrestlers must first be recruited by a stable, where professional sumos eat, sleep and train. However, life inside a stable is shrouded in secrecy. Reporter Sahar Zand heads to Japan to examine the darker side of sumo, from health issues to claims of bullying and concerns of head injuries.
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Children for Sale: USA's Underage Sex Trade
Episode 7 - 10-28-2022
The city of Houston is at the centre of a sex trafficking crackdown. There are more reported cases of child sex trafficking there than any other city in the United States. Across its state of Texas it's estimated at least 80,000 children and young people have been forced into the industry in recent years, usually by people they know. Reporter Yousra Elbagir tracks the heart-breaking search of one mother looking for her daughter, who was trafficked into prostitution when she was just 15. She also follows the private detective and armed bounty hunters trying to rescue teenagers from Houston's seedy underworld.
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Female Crime Fighters
Episode 6 - 5-13-2022
Fatima Manji meets the policewomen taking on Pakistan's gender violence epidemic
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Addicted America
Episode 5 - 4-29-2022
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from St Louis, Missouri, highlighting a drugs epidemic that has killed more people than Covid and is disproportionately affecting black people. Opioid painkiller fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and much cheaper to buy. Its devastating effects are being felt across the US, but particularly in rust belt middle-America towns like St Louis, which not only has one of the highest murder rates in the States, but last year also saw 436 overdose deaths. Guru-Murthy meets residents trying to dull the pain of their life with fentanyl, learning that many of the city’s addicts are homeless or prostitutes.
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Cocaine Wars
Episode 4 - 4-22-2022
Ecuador's murder rate soars as a lethal and bloody battle between drug cartels rages
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Fast Fashion's Toxic Legacy
Episode 3 - 4-08-2022
Ashionye Ogene travels to the bustling market of Kantamanto, in Ghana’s capital city Accra, to meet the traders struggling to sell the clothes the UK no longer wants. In 2019, roughly 63 million kilograms of clothes were imported into Ghana from the UK to 30,000 traders, who relied on good-quality second-hand clothes to make a living. However, what isn’t sold is going to waste and contributing to an environmental catastrophe. Mountains of waste exist on the outskirts of the city, much of which can take up to 200 years to decompose, with excess waste spilling over into the city’s slums.
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The Crypto Gold Rush
Episode 2 - 4-01-2022
With the pandemic leaving many Thais cash-strapped and jobless, huge numbers of farmers and traders alike have turned to crypto to boost their fortunes. Though cryptocurrency is volatile, prone to scammers and market manipulation, Thailand remains a crypto-friendly nation, keen to harness new blockchain innovations in a new technological era. Jonathan Miller travels to north-eastern Thailand to meet a rice farmer who’s trading crypto using a smartphone, solar panel and online tutorials. However, in Bangkok, a man who made and lost nearly a million US dollars represents the downside to crypto.
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The Anti-Vaxx Preachers
Episode 1 - 3-25-2022
As rich nations celebrate the success of their Covid vaccination programmes, most people in Africa haven’t even received one life-saving injection. As variants of the virus emerge from unvaccinated populations, Seyi Rhodes visits South Sudan to investigate the reasons behind vaccine inequality. Poor of non-existent distribution of the vaccine is only one problem as Rhodes meets many people convinced by claims that vaccines are deadly. As anti-vaxx sentiment grows amid a stalling rollout, Rhodes meets a pro-vaxx preacher in a refugee camp with a David-versus-Goliath task.
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Season 22
Girls Who Surf
Episode 7 - 11-19-2021
Meet the young female surfers riding the waves of change and seeking new roles in Senegal
First shown: Fri 19 Nov 2021 | 24 mins
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Beaten Back
Episode 6 - 6-25-2021
In Serbia, Seyi Rhodes meets the migrants who are being beaten back from the EU border
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Love Under Siege
Episode 5 - 6-18-2021
In Maiduguri in Nigeria, couples wed despite Covid and terrorists laying siege to the city.
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New York
Episode 4 - 6-14-2021
Krishnan Guru-Murthy explores New York's epidemic of homelessness
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Thailand's Tiger Kingpins
Episode 3 - 5-28-2021
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On the front line of the battle to save Thailand's wild tigers from poachers and smugglers.
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Uprooted by Crisis
Episode 2 - 5-21-2021
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Violent hurricanes and severe drought have decimated once fertile areas of Central America, with the region's rural poor worst affected. Hunger and child malnourishment is widespread, prompting an exodus of migrants to the United States. Reporter Guillermo Galdos tracks the journey of Gonzalo, who desperate to give his family a better life, risks his own by employing a network of people smugglers to illegally enter the US. The film reveals how climate migrants have become a valuable commodity in a booming trade and in a region controlled by crime cartels, some are paying the ultimate price.
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Dying for Democracy
Episode 1 - 5-14-2021
A report from Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, as young protestors risk everything to defy the military junta's coup. As the death toll in the city mounts, cameras witness the early optimism and hope of a protest movement disintegrate as the security services launch a brutal crackdown on unarmed civilians. The Myanmar government says it is responding to protests that harm the stability of the nation, using non-lethal force. However, as pressure to release political prisoners and journalists intensifies, so does the bloody crackdown.
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Season 21
Episode 7
9-26-2020
Adnan Sarwar follows the trail of migrants dicing with death as they attempt to cross the frozen Alpine peaks marking the border between Italy and France. Braving altitudes of up to 2,500 metres and temperatures as low as minus 20, many have died in their attempt to seek safety, having been denied asylum in Italy or threatened with deportation back to the countries from which they fled.
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Episode 6
9-19-2020
Adnan Sarwar follows the trail of migrants dicing with death as they attempt to cross the frozen Alpine peaks marking the border between Italy and France. Braving altitudes of up to 2,500 metres and temperatures as low as minus 20, many have died in their attempt to seek safety, having been denied asylum in Italy or threatened with deportation back to the countries from which they fled.
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Death in the Alps
Episode 5 - 9-12-2020
Adnan Sarwar follows the trail of migrants dicing with death as they attempt to cross the frozen Alpine peaks marking the border between Italy and France. Braving altitudes of up to 2,500 metres and temperatures as low as minus 20, many have died in their attempt to seek safety, having been denied asylum in Italy or threatened with deportation back to the countries from which they fled.
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Nirvana For Sale
Episode 4 - 9-05-2020
Marcel Theroux visits Thailand and the controversial Dhammakaya movement. Critics say they're a money-obsessed cult while Dhammakaya claim they're a force for good.
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Swarm Chasers
Episode 3 - 8-29-2020
Sahar Zand reports on the adverse impact of locusts across Kenya and neighbouring countries, which are devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation. Filmed before the UK went into lockdown, she visits Kenya, on the trail of immense swarms of the insects - the biggest for 70 years. In a country in which agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 80 per cent of the population and where over a million people live on the edge of hunger, even a small swarm can eat the same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people, threatening millions with starvation and economic collapse.
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Trump's Housewives
Episode 2 - 8-22-2020
Karishma Vyas visits California to meet the "TradWives" - a growing movement of women in the United States who idolise Donald Trump, embrace traditional family values, reject feminism and are working hard to secure his reelection.
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Schoolgirl Pin-Ups
Episode 1 - 8-07-2020
Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Liam Nolan travel to Japan to meet some of the country's `Junior Idols' - schoolgirl performers whose audiences consist almost entirely of middle-aged men.
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Season 20
Social Media Martyrs
Episode 3 - 11-26-2019
Sahar Zand meets Iraq's new social media stars. They've got millions of followers, but, as Unreported World finds out, fame can have deadly consequences.
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Schools Under Siege
Episode 2 - 11-16-2019
Adnan Sarwar meet pupils, parents and teachers trying to survive at a primary school caught in a turf war between lawless drug-dealing gangs in Cape Town, South Africa
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Hurricane Hell
Episode 1 - 11-08-2019
Exploring the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian’s rampage through the Bahamas. When Dorian hit the region back in August, it sparked worldwide headlines. In its aftermath, reporter Seyi Rhodes uncovers the dark story of how Haitian migrants have been left homeless and now, prohibited from rebuilding, are being deported by the government. They live with families who are in hiding after their homes were wrecked and their documents lost. Their futures are now uncertain with the government threatening jail sentences and heavy fines.
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Season 19
Censored
Episode 5 - 5-17-2019
Reporter Sahar Zand travels to Nicaragua, where President Ortega has launched a crackdown on the independent media in a country gripped by civil disruption and economic chaos.
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Girls Behind Bars
Episode 4 - 4-27-2019
In Madagascar, Unreported World investigates the extraordinary stories of children locked up in adult prisons for up to three years before their cases are heard in court
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Episode 3
4-20-2019
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Episode 2
4-13-2019
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Carnival Wars
Episode 1 - 4-06-2019
A film from Brazil exploring the impact of the country's new President, Jair Bolsonaro, on the LGBT community. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Kate Hardie-Buckley travel to Sao Paulo - which holds the world record for the largest gay pride parade ever - as its inhabitants prepare for Carnival.
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Season 18
Episode 8
12-22-2018
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Episode 7
12-15-2018
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Forced To Be Fat
Episode 6 - 12-08-2018
Meeting top actresses who are speaking out against assault, sexual harassment and rape
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Bollywood #MeToo
Episode 5 - 12-01-2018
Unreported World investigates how the #MeToo campaign has taken off in India's film industry, meeting top actresses who are speaking out against assault, sexual harassment and rape
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Evil in Paradise
Episode 4 - 11-24-2018
Krishnan Guru-Murthy visits Caribbean tourist destination the Dominican Republic, to investigate terrible crimes being committed against teenagers by sex tourists
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Kidnapped in Kabul
Episode 3 - 11-17-2018
Reporter Rania Abouzeid and director Karim Shah travel to Kabul where the population, long used to living with bombs and gunfights, face a new danger: criminal gangs who kidnap for ransom. Often their victims are children. The Unreported World team join the lead detective of the police anti-kidnap squad as they attempt to reunite kidnap victims with their families.
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The World's Dirtiest Air
Episode 2 - 11-10-2018
Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Kate Hardie-Buckley travel to Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, where the air quality can reach more than 100 times the accepted limit and is causing a public health disaster. A layer of smog caused by coal smoke blankets the city. The smog is full of floating soot particles, some of which are small enough to bypass the body's defences, causing fatal illnesses including respiratory disease, heart disease and cancer. According to Unicef, cases of respiratory infections have tripled here over the last 10 years as pollution surges. The team visit a children's hospital where senior paediatrician Dr Oyenbileg tells Theroux that respiratory illness is the biggest killer of children under five, as they are more susceptible to respiratory diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia.
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Mogadishu 999
Episode 1 - 11-03-2018
Channel 4's multi-award-winning foreign affairs strand returns for a new series with a film following a volunteer ambulance service in Somalia's war-torn capital, Mogadishu. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Sasha Achilli accompany the extraordinary team who risk their lives braving bombs, gunfights and al-Shabaab militants to get sick people to hospital in a city where the government struggles to cope and where they are many people's only hope.
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Season 17
Sex for Grades
Episode 16 - 11-25-2016
In Mozambique, Unreported World investigates the disturbing phenomenon of teachers forcing schoolgirls to have sex with them in return for good grades, or for their deserved grades.
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South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal
Episode 15 - 11-18-2016
Unreported World investigates why one in three women in South Africa reportedly use potentially dangerous skin-bleaching products, in spite of strict laws,
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The Prison from Hell
Episode 14 - 11-11-2016
Seyi Rhodes gains access to one of the most notorious prisons on Earth: Haiti's National Penitentiary, where 80% of inmates have been locked up without being convicted of any crime.
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The Fish Bombers
Episode 13 - 11-04-2016
Malaysian Borneo's beautiful coral reefs face environmental disaster as local fishermen resort to drastic, destructive fishing methods in order to survive, including using explosives or sodium cyanide
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Vietnam's Toxic Legacy
Episode 12 - 10-28-2016
Ade Adepitan investigates the legacy of a toxic herbicide dropped by US forces during the Vietnam War, which some doctors believe is causing health problems in a new generation of children.
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Exiled: Europe's Gay Refugees
Episode 11 - 10-14-2016
Unreported World meets gay refugees who have fled to Germany from the Middle East but are still subject to violent attacks and abuse, from fellow refugees and migrants.
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India's Blind Daters
Episode 10 - 10-07-2016
Marcel Theroux reports from India on matchmaking schemes for people with disabilities to find husbands and wives, while also navigating the complexities of caste, religion and parents' expectations
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Yemen: Britain's Unseen War
Episode 9 - 9-30-2016
Channel 4's multi-award winning Unreported World returns with a powerful new episode from Yemen revealing the catastrophic effect of the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign, which is being carried out using British-supplied weapons. The bombing, together with a naval blockade on Yemen's major port, has resulted in a humanitarian emergency threatening millions with starvation. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Patrick Wells are the first international crew to film in Hodeidah port, which is critical to Yemen's food imports and has been disabled by bombing.
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Iran's Dating Revolution
Episode 8 - 5-06-2016
Many young Iranians are shunning marriage and enjoying new ways to meet people, like Instagram. But it's hard to balance this modern approach to life with the older generation's traditional values.
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The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes
Episode 7 - 4-29-2016
In four years, more than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests. Ade Adepitan visits Kenya as it faces a World Anti-Doping Agency deadline to put its house in order.
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The Forgotten Holocaust Survivors
Episode 6 - 4-22-2016
Krishan Guru-Murthy reveals how tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel are spending their final days living in poverty despite billions of dollars of reparation payments.
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How to Stop a Murder
Episode 5 - 4-15-2016
In America's murder capital - Chicago - Seyi Rhodes meets volunteer ex-gang members who risk their lives to try to halt cycles of revenge killings, in the face of budget cuts.
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Mission Critical: Afghanistan
Episode 4 - 4-08-2016
Abigail Austen has unique, extraordinary access to the battle against Isis and the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are threatening to take everything Britain helped fight for.
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The City with No Water
Episode 3 - 4-01-2016
Reporter Fazeelat Aslam and director Karim Shah reveal how thousands of families living in Pakistan's richest city, Karachi, are suffering from chronic water shortages as a result of climate change, mismanagement, corrupt officials and criminal gangs. Their eye-opening report shows how drastic the situation has become, with families who are running out of supplies sometimes having to spend half their salary buying water illegally from criminals, or wait up night after night to see if community water taps will be turned on for a couple of hours.
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Find My Kid Drugs
Episode 2 - 3-25-2016
Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Patrick Wells travel to Venezuela, where they are joined by a family's frantic door-to-door search for medicines for their desperately ill daughter. This is one of the thousands of families who are affected by the shortage of drugs and medical equipment across the country. The episode visits a hospital lacking items as basic as antibiotics, and if doctors decide to speak out they are labelled anti-revolutionaries. The show will reveal how one of the world's biggest oil producers has been crippled by an economic disaster.
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Muslim, Trans and Banned
Episode 1 - 3-18-2016
Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Victoria Bell are in Malaysia, where the government has declared transgender people to be enemies of Islam. There they meet the Trans women who are forced to live in what human rights groups say is one of the worst places in the world to be transgender and accompany the country's religious police as they crackdown on anything considered ‘un-Islamic'.
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Season 16
Brazil's Child Preachers
Episode 16 - 11-20-2015
Child preachers in Brazil are attracting large crowds and becoming celebrities, as the country's fast-growing evangelical movement gains religious and political power.
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30 Years a Slave
Episode 15 - 11-13-2015
Marcel Theroux investigates the growing national scandal in South Korea of modern-day slaves, many of whom have learning difficulties and worked for years on a remote island chain.
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Mexico's Baby Business
Episode 14 - 11-06-2015
Reporter Kiki King investigates Mexico's fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar surrogacy industry.
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Mafia Hunter
Episode 13 - 10-30-2015
Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the television journalist in Sicily who's risking his life to expose the Mafia bosses whose tentacles still reach far into almost every aspect of life.
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Frontline Family Reunions
Episode 12 - 10-23-2015
Reporter Morland Sanders meets the aid workers trying to reunite children and parents who are trapped on different sides of the frontline in the brutal civil war in South Sudan.
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The Girl Who Lost Her Face
Episode 11 - 10-16-2015
Reporter Giles Duley visits a remarkable clinic for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh, and follows one young victim as she rebuilds her life, and the inspirational team helping her.
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The Fight for Sight
Episode 10 - 10-09-2015
In this uplifting episode, reporter Ade Adepitan meets medics in Malawi who perform 15-minute operations that allow blind people to see.
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China's Gay Shock Therapy
Episode 9 - 5-22-2015
Unreported World reveals how some Chinese hospitals use nausea-inducing drugs and electric shock therapy to 'cure' gay people, while gay rights activists are closely monitored by the police.
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Miss Crimea
Episode 8 - 5-15-2015
In the disputed territory of Crimea, Marcel Theroux meets Tatar families worried about what Russian rule might bring and a young woman who hopes to become the first Tatar winner of Miss Crimea.
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The Black Mambas: Saving the Rhino
Episode 7 - 5-08-2015
In South Africa, reporter Evan Williams and director Laura Warner meet the Black Mambas: the world's first all-female anti-poaching unit, who are battling to save the rhino from extinction.
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Generation Football
Episode 6 - 5-01-2015
Ade Adepitan investigates unscrupulous agents preying on young footballers in Cameroon who are desperate to make a career playing for teams in Europe or the Middle East.
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40 Years to Find My Family
Episode 5 - 4-24-2015
In Cambodia, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets families torn apart by the Khmer Rouge genocide, who are now being reunited by reality TV.
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Vaccination Wars
Episode 4 - 4-17-2015
Unreported World meets the health workers risking their lives to vaccinate children against polio in Pakistan, where the Taliban have issued a decree against vaccination.
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Standing Up to Mugabe
Episode 3 - 4-10-2015
Unreported World meets the brave - and very funny - comics risking their security by satirising Zimbabwe's politicians online.
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America's Cowboy Kids
Episode 2 - 4-03-2015
This action-packed, eye-opening episode visits Texas to meet the young children participating in what has been described as the world's most dangerous organised sport: bull-riding.
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The City That Beat Isis
Episode 1 - 3-27-2015
A unique, devastating insight into the last days in the battle between Kurdish fighters and Isis for the Syrian town of Kobani.
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Season 15
15 and Learning to Speak
Episode 16 - 11-21-2014
Unreported World follows the inspirational work of the sign language teachers transforming the lives of deaf children and adults in Uganda who have never been able to communicate until now.
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Tripoli Burning
Episode 15 - 11-14-2014
Libya is so dangerous most foreigners have left. Embedded in Tripoli's fire station, reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Laura Warner gained a vivid snapshot of life in a disintegrating country.
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The Kids of Murder High
Episode 14 - 11-07-2014
Ade Adepitan meets the inspirational head teacher in Honduras who's battling to give his pupils the best chance of survival in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
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India's Electric Dreams
Episode 13 - 10-31-2014
Krishnan Guru-Murthy examines the Indian government's drive to provide electricity for every village in the country, and how it will affect the country's environment.
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Siberia's Next Supermodels
Episode 12 - 10-24-2014
Unreported World meets some of the thousands of young Russian women moving to China to become models, but finding the work and conditions a lot harder than they had expected.
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The Invisible People
Episode 11 - 10-10-2014
Unreported World visits Lebanon to reveal the plight of some of the most vulnerable refugees fleeing the war in Syria: disabled people, many of whom are children.
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Vietnam's Dog-Snatchers
Episode 10 - 10-03-2014
Unreported World investigates how dog thieves are stealing thousands of pet dogs from family homes in Vietnam to meet the demand for dog meat.
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Surviving Ebola
Episode 9 - 9-26-2014
Unreported World provides a unique view of what life is like for the health workers battling Ebola in Sierra Leone and the families affected by the virus.
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Africa's Drugs Scandal
Episode 8 - 5-30-2014
Krishnan Guru-Murthy visits Senegal to reveal how cancer patients across Africa are being deprived of pain-relieving drug morphine, although governments have the funds to purchase supplies.
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Jamaica's Underground Gays
Episode 7 - 5-23-2014
Ade Adepitan investigates the growth of homophobic attacks in Jamaica and meets a gay and transgender group who've ended up living in a storm drain and suffer shocking violence and attacks.
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Neighbours at War
Episode 6 - 5-16-2014
Krishnan Guru-Murthy presents an episode filmed on both sides of the lines in Lebanon, as Sunni Muslim fighters besiege an Alawite neighbourhood in a conflict mirroring the one in Syria.
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The Cursed Twins
Episode 5 - 5-09-2014
In a remote area of Madagascar, behaviour is controlled by taboos handed down from long-dead ancestors, which are leading to twins being abandoned and their mothers becoming outcasts.
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Carjack City
Episode 4 - 5-02-2014
At least 30 vehicles are carjacked every day in South Africa. Marcel Theroux joins Andries Hlongwane, who works for a private security firm, as he chases gunmen and recovers stolen cars.
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Kickboxing Kids
Episode 3 - 4-25-2014
This powerful episode documents the lives of Thai children as young as seven who fight in the brutal sport of Muay Thai, knocking out their opponents with elbows, knees, feet and fists.
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Dancing in the Danger Zone
Episode 2 - 4-18-2014
Unreported World meets the extraordinary dancers and musicians at Iraq's only music and ballet school, battling to keep their art alive against the rising tide of violence in Baghdad.
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The World's Dirtiest River
Episode 1 - 4-11-2014
Indonesia is home to the planet's most polluted river and a textile industry supplying some of the world's biggest fashion brands.
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Season 14
Nepal: The Orphan Business
Episode 16 - 11-28-2013
Unreported World goes undercover in orphanages in Nepal, where they discover that many children have been taken from impoverished parents, and used by orphanage owners to attract donations.
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The Jungle Midwife
Episode 15 - 11-15-2013
Seyi Rhodes meets a local midwife in the jungles of the Central African Republic saving mothers and babies in one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth.
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Egypt's Tomb Raiders
Episode 14 - 11-08-2013
Unreported World investigates the shocking effects Egypt's political unrest is having on the country's tourism industry and its unique archaeological heritage.
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India: Slumkid Reporters
Episode 13 - 11-01-2013
Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and director Suzie Samant travel to Delhi to meet the remarkable children who run the only newspaper in India campaigning on the problems that street children face.
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Mexico: The Abandoned
Episode 12 - 10-25-2013
Ade Adepitan, Daniel Bogado and former hospital patients gain access to Mexico's psychiatric institutions to secretly film the horrific and inhumane conditions endured by thousands of men and women.
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China's Lonely Hearts
Episode 11 - 10-18-2013
China is predicted to have 24 million single men looking for love by 2020. Reporter Marcel Theroux meets two people who represent inequality in love in modern China.
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Venezuela's Kidnap Cops
Episode 10 - 10-11-2013
Caracas is the kidnap capital of the world. Unreported World follows the Venezuelan police's elite Anti-Kidnap Squad as they fight the kidnap gangs with brute force and technical ingenuity.
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Afghanistan's Hunted Women
Episode 9 - 10-07-2013
Unreported World gains rare access to secret houses in Afghanistan sheltering women hiding from violent husbands or from families who have tried to kill them for refusing arranged marriages.
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Making Brazil Beautiful
Episode 8 - 5-31-2013
Seyi Rhodes reports on the huge growth in cosmetic surgery in Brazil, where the pursuit of beauty means more subsidised or free surgery; does Brazil risk losing what's so special about its own people?
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Yemen: Death Row Teenagers
Episode 7 - 5-24-2013
Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to Yemen to reveal the scores of young men locked up in prisons and awaiting execution for crimes they are accused of committing while they were children.
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Bangladesh Women's Driving School
Episode 6 - 5-17-2013
Unreported World meets the young women in Bangladesh who are learning to be professional drivers but who face extraordinary odds, both on the dangerous roads and from social taboos.
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Hong Kong's Tiger Tutors
Episode 5 - 5-10-2013
Marcel Theroux meets the students in Hong Kong aiming for success in one of the most competitive exam environments in the world, and meets the millionaire tutor seen as a key to success.
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Syria's Rebel Doctor
Episode 4 - 5-03-2013
Reporter Evan Williams meets Dr Rami Habib, the NHS doctor who is risking his life by providing frontline medical care to the victims of the worsening conflict in Syria.
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Gaza's Property Ladder
Episode 3 - 4-26-2013
In war-torn Gaza, Location, Location, Location means finding an apartment in one of the highly sought-after areas that are usually not shelled or hit by missiles.
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Saving Kenya's Street Kids
Episode 2 - 4-19-2013
Aidan Hartley reports from his home town in Kenya on an extraordinary project to rescue the children who live on its streets.
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Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal
Episode 1 - 4-12-2013
Ade Adepitan meets some of Cuba's top basketball players and finds out why some of them are defecting when the country seems to be opening up.
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Season 13
Burma: The Village that Took on the Generals
Episode 16 - 12-21-2012
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Russia's Radical Chic
Episode 15 - 12-14-2012
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Egypt: Sex, Mobs and Revolution
Episode 14 - 12-07-2012
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Mumbai's Party Police
Episode 13 - 11-30-2012
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The Master Chef of Mogadishu
Episode 12 - 11-23-2012
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Dominican Republic: Baseball Dreams
Episode 11 - 11-16-2012
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Indonesia's Tobacco Children
Episode 10 - 11-09-2012
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USA: Talk Radio Nation
Episode 9 - 11-02-2012
In the run-up to the 2012 US election, Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets the talk-radio hosts broadcasting to a country more polarised than ever before.
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Honduras: The Lost Girls
Episode 8 - 6-08-2012
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Libya: My Week with Gunmen
Episode 7 - 6-01-2012
Six months after its revolution, Libya is still riven by factionalism, militias and violence, as the armed groups who overthrew Colonel Gaddafi cling to territory and power.
Tripoli's streets are ruled by the gun. The police have tried to remove roadblocks manned by militiamen and have been driven off in a hail of gunfire.
Reporter Peter Oborne and director Richard Cookson talk to fighters from the powerful Zintan militia who have controlled the country's main airport since they seized it from Gaddafi forces. They've been involved in tense negotiations with the government about handing it over but the talks appear to have stalled.
Across town, the team finds militiamen streaming into a government compound. The government is offering payments of £10,00 to each fighter in an effort to persuade them to return to civilian life.
It has reportedly already paid out around a billion pounds in this way, but that hasn't bought stability. At another roadblock, furious militiamen say they haven't been paid yet and vow to fight on.
In the coastal city of Zuwara the team finds another gun battle taking place between two rival militias, with constant gunfire and artillery overhead.
One fighter says the battle has been going on for three days and claims his militia are the true representatives of the revolution and are battling Gaddafi loyalists in the militia from the neighbouring town of Regdalin.
By dawn, the battle has claimed more than 20 lives, with hundreds wounded. The two sides arrange a truce and Oborne and Cookson cross the line to enter Regdalin.
The man in charge of the local military council that rules the town - like most other towns in Libya there is little government authority - denies the townsfolk are Gaddafi loyalists.
The conflict, he tells Oborne, is about territory, while others say battles like this are really about who controls nearby smuggling routes.
The team moves on to the town of Gharyan, where civilians have formed another private army. A compound built by Gaddafi has been turned into a detention centre.
More than 1000 black workers and suspected illegal immigrants are housed in the camp. There has been no functioning court system in Libya since the revolution and many of those locked in the metal cells face the prospect of being detained indefinitely.
When western governments backed the revolution in 2011 they hoped to replace the barbarism of Gaddafi with democracy and the rule of law. The revolution freed millions from fear and terror but in the new Libya many of those Unreported World meets have lost everything.
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The Monkey Business
Episode 6 - 5-25-2012
In Cameroon there are fears that the practice of eating bushmeat - wild meat hunted in the rainforest, including endangered gorillas and chimpanzees - could trigger a new global pandemic of viruses. Unreported World investigates.
Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon also meet the British woman battling the trade and looking after the animals orphaned by the slaughter.
Eighty percent of all meat eaten in Cameroon is bushmeat. To understand how the trade works, the team travels to the Dja Reserve in the south east of the country, where the tracks and clearings created by logging companies have opened up the once-impenetrable jungle to bushmeat poachers.
Williams meets some of the wardens trying to combat the poachers. There are only 60 wardens to cover the 2000 square miles of the Dja Reserve. Until 2009 they were funded by the EU. Now they're on their own and it's dangerous work.
One warden has already been killed by poachers this year and many have been injured.
Williams and Brabazon walk into the forest with the wardens and meet a group of indigenous Baka people, the so-called pygmies. They tell Williams that people come four or five times a week looking for all sorts of bushmeat and hire locals to go and hunt for them.
One warden tells Williams that the local hunters get around 25 to 30 Euros for a chimpanzee.
But the Baka have something even more shocking to reveal. Eating gorilla meat has wiped out one of their neighbouring villages: 25 men, women and children died. There was only one person who survived, and that person didn't eat the meat.
The team heads back to the capital, Yaounde, to meet Professor Dominique Baudon at the Pasteur Centre. He's on the frontline of protecting both Cameroon and the world from the threat of new viruses emerging from man's contact with apes and in particular the preparation and consumption of bushmeat.
He tells Williams he believes within the next 20 years new viruses, possibly similar to HIV or Ebola, will definitely appear. And this isn't just a problem for Africa. At least 11,000 tonnes of illegal bushmeat - including ape meat - are smuggled into Britain every year, much of it from Central Africa.
The team travels to Yokadouma, one of the most remote areas in Cameroon. Filming secretly, Unreported World meets a man with contacts to commercial poachers specialising in gorillas and chimps. He sets up a meeting with an ape hunter.
Shooting, eating or possessing part of a great ape can lead to three years in jail and a hefty fine in Cameroon, but in exclusive footage and access, poacher 'Frankie' tells Williams that just a few days before he had killed a female gorilla and her baby.
He has brought with him the severed arm of an adult gorilla, which is now a delicacy in Cameroon's big cities. The team is forced to leave by villagers angry that Frankie has revealed ape hunting to outsiders.
As demand for ape meat soars, so does the number of orphans created. Unreported World visits Rachel Hogan, who came to Cameroon from Birmingham 11 years ago. She has set up Ape Action Africa.
Rachel tells Williams she has seen an explosion in the numbers of orphans coming into the sanctuary in the past five years. There are currently 324 orphans at the centre in Mefou. They include 22 Western lowland gorillas - now a critically endangered species - and 107 chimpanzees.
Rachel is doing the best she can but the sad truth is that the apes she looks after can almost certainly never be returned to the wild; Cameroon is just too dangerous
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Ukraine: The Teenagers Who Live Underground
Episode 5 - 5-18-2012
UNICEF estimates that there may be as many as 100,000 street children in Ukraine. Marcel Theroux and Suemay Oram go underground in Kiev to meet some and find out what their life is like.
Ukraine has invested billions in infrastructure projects for the 2012 European football championships.
While the fans will enjoy the facilities, most of them won't know that living around them - and beneath their feet under the country's cities - are thousands of young people left on their own to survive dangerous, subterranean lives.
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, years of economic hardship have hurt Ukraine. The result has been a lost generation of teenagers who have run away from broken families, alcoholism and abuse.
They suffer awful living conditions and embarrass the Ukrainian government, which in June will host the European Championships as part of its efforts to project a modern, European image with luxury shops and a thriving culture.
Many of the teenagers inject drugs or sell sex, and face serious health risks including syphilis, hepatitis, and HIV/AIDS. In some cities, close to 20 per cent of youngsters living on the streets who were tested were HIV positive.
Theroux and Oram journey underground through pitch-black basements and passageways under the streets of Kiev. Their guides are a group young people who have made their home at the end of a warren of dark corridors.
Outside, the temperature is below minus 20 degrees. Underneath the city's Soviet apartment buildings, hot water pipes are helping keep the street children alive.
The team finds 13 who have set up home together, surrounded by mounds of rubbish, which indicate they've been living rough for some time.
They've been sniffing glue to take away the feelings of cold and hunger, and the effects are starting to become obvious. Longer-term use causes brain damage.
The leader of the group is Vanya, a 29-year-old ex-prisoner. He tells Theroux he can't work because he has no identity papers. They have been stolen and he can't afford the bribes to get new ones.
Alongside him is Vova, who has been stabbed but can't afford a doctor. Medical treatment is meant to be free, but hospitals routinely demand payment.
Above ground, Kiev's Central Station is a focal point for the city's homeless, who sleep in the waiting rooms and beg outside. Kiev does have shelters for homeless children but many don't want to use them.
Theroux meets 14-year-old Dima and his 18-year-old girlfriend Clara. They are living on a set of pipes that carry hot water to nearby apartment blocks. Clara tells Theroux she'd got pregnant from a previous partner, but social services had taken the baby.
The spiral of street life is hard to escape, but some do make it out. An hour outside Kiev, Theroux and Oram meet Oksana, who was raised in a state orphanage. After she left it, she lived on the streets and began to drink heavily.
She fell pregnant and her daughter was taken away. Then she got pregnant again. But somehow, Oksana tells Theroux, she found the strength to stop drinking. She kept her baby and was eventually reunited with her eldest child. But if she hadn't had help, her children might have ended up on the street themselves.
As the Unreported World team leaves Ukraine, Theroux feels like he has witnessed a side of Ukraine that the football fans will never know about: a generation of children who have got lost on the journey from the country's Soviet past to its European future.
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Congo: Magic, Gangs & Wrestlers
Episode 4 - 5-11-2012
Wrestlers are superstars in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this vast and troubled country, wrestling is a passion, allowing fans to forget the poverty, violence and ongoing civil war for the duration of a bout.
Contests are televised and reported on the sports pages and attract thousands of fans.
In the capital, Kinshasa, Unreported World reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Wael Dabbous find some of the superstars of the sport practising 'black magic', and uncover allegations that many fighters are involved in gang violence and political intimidation.
Like other countries where wrestling is popular, there's a tradition in Congo of fighters wearing masks and customised costumes.
But alongside the theatrics common to wrestling elsewhere, Congo's version has incorporated the belief in black magic, or fetishe, which is genuinely feared by many.
The film begins with an amazing scene. Rhodes and Dabbous visit a wrestling match in Kinshasa to watch Congo's champion wrestler, Nanga Steve, taking on Super Angaluma, a fetishe wrestler famed for using black magic to defeat his opponents.
The street bout is held in a ring surrounded by hundreds of spectators, many of them young men. To the crowd's delight Super Angaluma uses fetishe to try and defeat Nanga Steve, sacrificing a chicken to help him unlock supernatural powers.
Despite this, in a classic denouement, good triumphs over evil and Nanga Steve is victorious.
In this city of eight million people - the third largest in Africa - Steve and the other star wrestlers aren't just celebrities: they're figures of power and influence.
Steve tells Rhodes that some wrestlers are major forces in gangs called 'Kuluna' that are terrorising the city. While some fighters like him are celebrities, others struggle to make a living, which he says explains the attraction of the gangs.
The team also meets Armand Lingomo, a veteran wrestler who's watched as his sport has become entangled in criminality and Congo's violent politics.
Rhodes and Dabbous investigate allegations that the government uses gangs of wrestlers and other combat sportsmen to crush opposition protests. A local cameraman shows them footage of sportsmen, including a champion wrestler, physically assaulting opposition MPs during a crucial debate.
The team also meets one of the most famous Congolese wrestlers, called Zombi. At his large house he boasts of his riches and influence. Zombi takes Rhodes to his power base in an area known as 'The Kingdom of Zombi'.
Here the team find a dedicated group of young followers - would-be wrestlers - who regard him as their 'master'. Zombi reveals this group is in fact 'Kuluna' but denies they are criminals.
However, it's clear that he has a huge amount of control over them as he hands them cash. Critics from the political opposition allege this money comes from the government, keen to buy the gang's loyalty. Zombi denies this.
As well as champion fighters, the gang has someone who further intimidates their rivals - a fetisheur. This sorcerer tells Rhodes 'I give them magical medicines so they can demonstrate their strength, cut off their opponent's head, drain their blood and pull out their intestines.'
The team find the huge popularity of wrestling has spawned violent and dangerous gangs. But the sport also provides a way for millions of people to escape the violence and poverty of everyday life.
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Afghanistan: Lights, Camera, Death Threats
Episode 3 - 4-27-2012
The team begin their journey on set with Saba Sahar - an actress, screenwriter and Afghanistan's first female film director. In a country where few women work at all, Saba is directing her sixth production - a TV series about the Afghan police force.
The only woman on set, Saba has complete authority, even over the real policemen who are acting as her extras. As well as directing, Saba is playing the heroine, who's a female cop succeeding in a man's world.
Saba's high-profile job is provoking some of the most dangerous people in the country. The drug lords and the Taliban have threatened her life. 'Each morning when I leave the house I think I'll never see my family again. I might be killed,' she tells Kleeman.
Kleeman and Lang meet Salim Shaheen, Afghanistan's most prolific film director. He's directed and starred in over 100 low-budget, high-octane movies over three decades.
With a large fan base, Salim has a huge influence on ordinary Afghans. He takes Kleeman on to the film set where he's in the middle of directing a fight scene.
Salim fears the departure of foreign troops from Afghanistan could mean the end of his career. 'There's going to be a civil war here,' he warns. 'If the Taliban come back, films will be banned. I'll have to leave the country.'
Like Saba Sahar, Salim's life has been threatened. 'Every second we are under threat,' he tells Kleeman. 'Every minute our lives are in danger.'
The team meets a Taliban fighter. He tells Kleeman that cinema goes against their interpretation of Sharia law and should be outlawed.
He has a warning for Salim and Saba: 'They should be told that what they are doing is wrong first,' he says. 'If that doesn't stop them, we will punish them according to Sharia law.' The punishment, he says, is death.
Everyone the team meets is convinced the Taliban will soon be back in power, and Afghanistan will soon return to fundamentalism.
But Kabul's DVD bazaars are booming. Salim takes Kleeman into a market where one trader says he sells up to 1400 copies of a newly released film per day. There's a huge appetite for home-grown cinema.
Salim and Saba have already paid a high price for making films: Saba has been rejected by her wider family, and Salim lost eight crew members in a rocket attack on one of his sets.
He shows Kleeman footage of the aftermath. 'I'll continue in their name,' he says. 'I'm prepared to sacrifice myself. I'll never give up making films.'
Salim and Saba have more sacrifices ahead: the Taliban want them to suffer for believing in the freedoms promised by the west.
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Baghdad Bomb Squad
Episode 2 - 4-20-2012
nreported World gains unprecedented and exclusive access to the Baghdad Bomb Squad. Nine years after the invasion and with the British and the Americans gone, Iraq still faces almost daily attacks from those trying to foment political chaos and sectarian hatred. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Alex Nott spend time with a small band of brave Iraqi officers trying to prevent further murderous attacks.
With modest resources and great courage in the face of terrible danger, four 12-man squads work around the clock defusing bombs or investigating crime scenes where a device has detonated. The Unreported World team joins one team as they begin a morning shift, when the bombers are at their busiest. Twenty-nine year old officer Rawad Yassin, who has already spent six years in the bomb squad, tells Guru-Murthy that his family have urged him to leave the unit but he feels a responsibility to his fellow officers.
Travelling in convoy they are called out to the suburb of Karrada. They believe they are heading to an unexploded device but on arrival find the aftermath of detonated device. The target was a senior military commander in charge of the Ministry of Communications Protection Force. Several of his staff have been killed, and more than a dozen injured.
As the team head off, reports come in of other bombings around Baghdad. Another unit finds an unexploded device right outside Iraq's Oil Ministry. Unreported World reveals extraordinary footage showing how a 'sticky bomb', which is fixed under the car of a Brigadier General, is made safe.
In the last two years more than 30 bomb disposal experts have been killed across Iraq. Guru-Murthy speaks to someone close to one of those killed trying to defuse a vehicle bomb. Ali Hameed shows Guru-Murthy video footage of the incident which left his partner Ali Latif with terrible injuries. Hameed says since the incident he's been living with severe psychological stress.
The bomb squad believes Sunni extremists known as 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' are behind most of the bombings. The violence is deepening the sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Most targets are Shia, and Shia leaders including the Prime Minister accuse Sunni politicians of complicity. In turn Sunni leaders claim Shia are blaming them so Iraq can be dominated by the Shia.
Guru-Murthy highlights how Sunnis feel wrongly blamed and persecuted. They want nothing to do with Al Qaeda but feel cut out of power by the Shia led government. The team speaks to one of the most powerful Sunni tribal leaders - Sheikh Ali Al Hatam. Five years ago he ordered his men to stop fighting the Americans and turn on Al Qaeda. Now he feels betrayed and believes the Shia government is using the current bombing campaign as an excuse to increase discrimination against Sunnis. He fears the result will be further terrible sectarian violence.
In the week Unreported World is in Baghdad the bomb squad save many lives but across the country some 30 bombs explode and more than a hundred people are killed. When US troops withdrew in December, President Obama said they'd left Iraq stable and democratic. The Bomb Squad know that stability is still elusive. As Lieutenant Jassim Hamad Saleh says over shocking footage showing when he was injured in a bomb blast... 'Our work is a sacrifice, dealing with bombs means going to meet death. Death normally comes to people, but we go to death'.
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Terror in Sudan
Episode 1 - 4-13-2012
As George Clooney campaigns against the atrocities being committed in Sudan, Unreported World has filmed extensive documentary footage from the war zone.
Aidan Hartley and Daniel Bogado gained rare access to the Nuba Mountains to film the heroic doctors who are saving children in a largely hidden war being perpetrated on civilians by one of the world's most brutal dictatorships.
The Nuba Mountains region, in the South Kordofan oil fields upriver from Khartoum, is a troubled part of Sudan where a civil war has continued since the 1980s.
Nuba always fought alongside its southern black African Christian neighbours against the Arab Islamic regime in Khartoum, but the region was left behind in the peace accord that led to the independence of South Sudan in mid-2011.
In June 2011, President Omar al-Bashir's forces launched fresh attacks against opposition supporters in Nuba, many of them Christians and black Africans.
The Unreported World team highlights how government forces are carrying out almost constant aerial bombardment of civilian settlements, driving them from their fields so they cannot grow crops, while banning relief deliveries by international agencies.
As soon as they arrive in Nuba, Hartley and Bogado are caught in an air raid by Sukhoi ground attack jets firing rockets as terrified families dive into foxholes while explosions rumble in the surrounding villages. In another incident soon after, the team films traumatised children running into caves to hide from Antonov bombers.
The impact of Khartoum's refusal to allow medicines into Nuba is clear as doctors are forced to carry out operations on shrapnel-wounded children without anaesthetics and almost no medicines apart from traditional herbs.
Hartley and Bogado visit the Catholic Mother of Mercy hospital, the only functioning hospital for a million civilians trapped by the war. Made for 80 beds, it has 500 patients. The situation is so dire that even the medical staff are not eating as they tend the wounded and sick.
Teenage mother Alawiya tells Hartley how her new-born baby was killed in her arms by a blast that also claimed the lives of her mother and sister and tore off her right arm. One doctor claims that 80 per cent of all victims are civilians: the result of deliberate targeting.
An estimated 350,000 civilians have been driven from their homes by fighting and many have fled to live in the caves. The team travels with a local doctor to caves in the mountain of Tungule, where thousands have been forced to live.
In one clinic hidden among the rocks, Dr Alamin examines a seven-month-old baby, who he says has severe pneumonia and will die as Khartoum has banned the delivery of vaccines for children as well as supplementary foods for starving babies, and the United Nations, which evacuated in 2011, has delivered no supplies for a year.
The team stays with Mansur and his family in one cave overnight to shelter from aerial attacks, and as the sun goes down he cooks what food he has been able to buy that day with the last of his money: a few handfuls of sorghum grain that went cheap because it was contaminated by petrol.
The next morning the team films at a school the cave dwellers have set up under the canopy of tall trees. As the children attend their morning assembly, a bomber circles overhead and hundreds of children run screaming in fear to take cover in the nearby caves.
Their teachers tell Hartley that the schools have no pens, no books, nothing with which to learn, due to Khartoum's attacks.
As he unleashed terror last year, Bashir declared: 'There will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity... Islam [will be] the official religion and Arabic the official language... we will force them back into the mountains and starve them.'
As Unreported World shows, this is exactly what he has done, and unless action is taken, the horn of Africa faces another terrible man-made famine.
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Season 12
Australia's Hidden Valley
Episode 20 - 12-09-2011
Unreported World investigates the effect of controversial emergency legislation on Australia's Aboriginal population. The government has used this legislation to take control of many Aboriginal settlements. It said this was help to end violence and child abuse, and combat the alcohol abuse that ravages many Aboriginal communities.
Reporter Oliver Steeds and director Ed Braman begin their journey in Alice Springs - visited by tens of thousands of Britons every year for its aboriginal art galleries and tourist sites - where alcohol addiction is still ravaging the lives of the country's original inhabitants, many of whom live in desolate squatter camps on the outskirts of town.
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Honduras: Diving into Danger
Episode 19 - 12-02-2011
Indigenous people in Honduras are risking their lives diving to dangerous depths for lobsters destined for North American and European diners. Overfishing means they must now dive as deep as 150ft to land their catch. Each time they dive, they risk paralysis or death from the bends.
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Daniel Bogado travel into the Caribbean with divers on board a lobster diving boat. Kleeman discovers that while companies and consumers care about buying tuna that's caught in a way that doesn't harm dolphins, we don't seem to care about lobster that's caught in a way that has left hundreds dead and thousands paralysed.
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Trinidad: Guns, Drugs and Secrets
Episode 18 - 11-25-2011
Trinidad has become the murder capital of the Caribbean. While half a million tourists soak up the carnival atmosphere every year, the government has introduced a state of emergency to try to stop the gang violence that results in a murder on average every 17 hours.
At 11pm in the capital Port of Spain the atmosphere changes as a strict curfew comes into force and the normally bustling city becomes a ghost town. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Will West are only allowed out because they have obtained a special curfew pass for journalists.
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India's Child Savers
Episode 17 - 11-18-2011
Across India more than 60,000 children go missing every year. Unreported World explores the dark side of the booming economy, as many children are kidnapped into domestic slavery for the growing middle class and businesses, and others are kidnapped for ransom by those desperate to share some of the country's new wealth.
In Delhi alone seven children go missing every day. Reporter Evan Williams and director James Brabazon discover that the capital has become a major destination and transit point for tens of thousands of children being trafficked into forced labour, prostitution, begging and drug running.
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Gaza Going for Gold
Episode 16 - 11-11-2011
Unreported World meets members of the Palestinian Paralympic team hoping to qualify for London 2012. They find athletes struggling to train in the conflict zone.
In a territory where those who die fighting the Israelis are considered the true heroes, the Paralympic team goes completely unrecognised by its own people.
Nobody knows who team captain and discus thrower Khamis Zaqout is, despite the international medals he's won since he helped establish disabled sports in the Occupied Territories two decades ago. This is in spite of the fact that the only athletes representing Palestine in London will be disabled ones, since there is no Palestinian Olympic team.
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Richard Cookson meet Khamis as he struggles to find a taxi to take him to the gym. He introduces them to the rest of his eight-man squad at the training ground: a little patch of green in an overcrowded enclave of bombed-out buildings and shanties.
The news is that, as things stand, only four Palestinians are going to qualify to make it to the Games. The athletes are shocked and tensions boil over.
Mohammed Fanuna, a partially sighted long jumper and javelin thrower, loses his temper. The news is too much for him to take when he also has all the other daily worries of living in Gaza - the air strikes, the siege, the lack of freedom to travel, the poverty - and of course his disability.
Another very worried young athlete is 20-year-old Abed Abuwatfa, who invites the team back to the home he shares with his parents. Abed tells Hartley that the suspense over whether he will qualify for London is adding to the pressure on him to give up sport and find a job.
Three of Abed's cousins are deaf and his two sisters are also disabled, placing an enormous burden on the family. In Gaza it's common for poor people to marry into their extended families, which is a major reason why it has one of the highest rates of disability in the world.
The team learn that there's also a women's team. Disabled Palestinian women athletes have never had the chance to compete overseas as in this conservative Muslim society their families hadn't allowed them to travel alone.
This time, coach Hala Shakura has persuaded the families to allow them to go. One of them, shot putter Fatma Halooli, is the team's best hope for a place on the podium if she can make it to London.
She says she needs a new leg to perform well, but her best hope of getting that is if she qualifies. If she becomes a winner, she says, she might attract a sponsor who will give her the new leg she dreams of.
Gaza is effectively under siege and Israel controls the goods that go in, which has caused problems for the athletes as well as disabled people more generally, since it's difficult for amputees to get equipment such as prosthetic limbs or suitable wheelchairs.
The team visits the only place in the Gaza Strip that manufactures them. Since the last war in Gaza, Israel has relaxed a blockade on a range of items and denies that it blocks medical supplies, but the centre's director alleges that one donation from Slovenia has been stuck in an Israeli warehouse for the last eight months.
The conflict itself is also swelling the number of injuries and amputations. Hartley notices one young man who watches the training sessions but never joins in.
Adli Obeid lost his left leg when he was recently blown up by an Israeli drone-launched missile. He wants to join the team but can't until he finds an artificial limb and recovers from shrapnel injuries.
Hartley and Cookson meet some of the athletes one last time. They learn that Khamis is one of the four almost definitely going to London. Abed is still on the borderline but has decided to defy his family and keep training.
Hatem is struggling to improve his personal best at discus so he doesn't miss out, and Mohamed has resumed training and is one of the squad's best bets for a medal.
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Russia: Vlad's Army
Episode 15 - 11-04-2011
Unreported World reveals the huge personality cult around Vladimir Putin as it follows the extraordinary actions of the mass youth movement dedicated to protecting the interests of the Prime Minister and Russia.
As Putin announces his intention to return as President, reporter Peter Oborne and director James Jones meet some of the young people who are utterly devoted to him, have seemingly limitless resources, and appear to be above the law.
Outside the American Embassy in Moscow the team films members of Nashi, or 'Our People', as the movement is called, spray-painting 'Russia Forward' in six-foot letters, following criticism of Russia by the American Defence Secretary.
The police step in, but it soon becomes clear who is in charge as Nashi members bully, shove and chase away the officers in an extraordinary display of strength.
Nashi's headquarters are in a £20 million house in central Moscow, decorated with murals of Putin and quotes from his speeches. Oborne joins Nashi's weekly political meeting, which reveals a sinister side to its patriotism as anti-western and racist views come to the fore among some members.
Masha Kislitsnya, Nashi's Commissar, describes how her experience growing up as the daughter of a single mother in the 1990s formed the basis for her admiration for Putin.
She recalls that her family lived in dire poverty while the government was in collapse following the fall of communism, with the shops often empty of goods. Everything changed for the better, she says, when Putin took over.
Oborne also meets 21-year-old Nashi members Victoria and Oksana. They believe Putin has restored pride and prosperity to Russia and say joining Nashi was a way to express their adoration. They show and describe their favourite pictures of their leader, declaring that they are fanatics and that they worship him.
Critics say Nashi's true function is to build a personality cult for Vladmir Putin, while bullying, intimidating and harassing his opponents. The team speak to journalist Oleg Kashin, who was brutally beaten up after writing an article criticising a business project of one of Putin's closest allies.
His attackers have never been caught but Kashin tells Oborne he believes Nashi were most likely behind the attack, as one of his articles featured a project which they supported. Nashi denies all involvement, with Masha dismissing the suggestion as 'just accusations'.
While Putin's Russia may look like a liberal democracy - with elections, law courts and parliament - Unreported World shows how in reality there is a parallel state. Putin is a former Director of Russia's security service, the FSB - successor to the notorious KGB.
Critics say that, just like Nashi, the FSB is used to silence opposition and further the business interests of Putin's allies.
The team meets Olga Romanova, a financial journalist whose husband Alexei ran a profitable construction business until she ran an article exposing the business practices of a close Putin ally. Olga claims Alexei was given the choice between divorcing his wife or losing his business.
Soon afterwards the FSB started an investigation. Alexei was arrested, charged and sent to jail for eight years for the theft of shares - a crime she says he had not committed.
As the Unreported World team leaves Russia, it seems as though Nashi's worship may be turning Putin into one of the archetypal figures who occur throughout Russian history: a strongman with mystical powers, attracting uncritical devotion from his followers.
What also seems clear is that the future of democracy and the rule of law in Vladimir Putin's Russia is under threat.
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Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers
Episode 14 - 10-28-2011
Miracles, expensive cars, exorcisms and bodyguards: religion is big business in Nigeria. Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Lagos to reveal the extraordinary world of the millionaire preachers.
By promoting the dream of escaping poverty, they have turned their churches into corporations, which are changing the face of Christianity.
Every Sunday millions of Nigerians crowd into thousands of competing churches. The team visits one church in Lagos run by Dr Sign Fireman, an up-and-coming preacher who is attempting to break into the big time.
They find 2000 people at an event billed as the Burial of Satan. After a rock star entrance, Dr Fireman begins his service by exorcising the demons in his congregation.
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Uganda's Miracle Babies
Episode 13 - 10-21-2011
Jenny Kleeman and Suemay Oram travel to Uganda to investigate hydrocephalus: a preventable yet misunderstood condition that affects a quarter of a million babies a year in Sub-Saharan Africa.
They visit Africa's only paediatric neurosurgery hospital and meet the mothers in a race against time to save their babies' lives.
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Undercover Syria
Episode 12 - 10-14-2011
Ramita Navai and Wael Dabbous spend two weeks living undercover in some of the most dangerous parts of Syria with members of the opposition movement determined to overthrow President Assad's brutal dictatorship.
One of the few teams to avoid the ban on foreign media operating without official permission, they meet the protestors and the victims of the bloody crackdown, and visit the clandestine hospitals set up in private homes by doctors who risk torture or death for treating the injured.
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South Africa: Trouble in the Townships
Episode 11 - 10-07-2011
New Unreported World reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy visits South Africa. Seventeen years after it was freed from apartheid, he finds a country in which violent protests against corruption and the lack of basic services mean its ambition to lead the continent as a prosperous democracy hangs in the balance.
Simmering with anger, South Africa's people tell Krishnan they feel a sense of betrayal they will tolerate no longer.
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Indonesias Wildlife Warriors
Episode 10 - 6-10-2011
Unreported World travels to Indonesia to meet young environmental activists battling to save endangered species such as orang-utans and sea turtles. Reporter Aidan Hartley and producer Rodrigo Vazquez visit a vast market where critically endangered animals are sold as pets or for the Chinese medicine trade, and uncover allegations of corruption and harassment of the campaigners.
Borneo has one of the planet's last big forests, but every hour an area the size of three football pitches is cut down to be used for palm oil production. The Unreported World team joins one team of young, local environmentalists who are trying to rescue the orang-utan, which, because of the loss of its habitat, is heading for extinction.
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Breaking Into Israel
Episode 9 - 6-03-2011
In the Sinai desert, thousands of African immigrants fleeing conscription, torture and conflict in East Africa risk being shot by border guards and held ransom by people smugglers as they try to get to Israel.
The director Paul Kittel and his reporter arrive in the Sinai desert in north-east Egypt just over a month after the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Smuggling from Egypt to Israel has gone on for years, but now the smugglers are focused on people rather than goods.
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The Battle for Ivory Coast
Episode 8 - 5-27-2011
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Alex Nott arrive in Abidjan, the commercial capital of the Ivory Coast in West Africa, to report on the escalating political crisis. Instead they find themselves one of the few television crews to be there as terrifying violence tears apart a city that had been described as the Paris of West Africa.
For four months President Laurent Gbagbo has clung to power - despite losing elections. As the team arrives fighters loyal to Alassane Outtara, who has won the UN-backed elections, are advancing towards the presidential palace.
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Mexico: Living with Hitmen
Episode 7 - 5-20-2011
Mexico's drug wars have been well reported, but there is a frightening, new phenomenon that is going largely unnoticed. A growing number of journalists are being killed or 'disappeared' as they try to report on drug violence and the growing links between the cartels and the corrupt police and politicians.
Reporter Evan Williams and Director Alex Nott travel to Ciudad Juarez, on the US border, to experience the daily life of a journalist who has been called one of the most courageous women in Mexico.
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Burundi: Boys Behind Bars
Episode 6 - 5-13-2011
Unreported World exposes the plight of hundreds of children in Burundi locked up for years without trial in adult prisons, among some of the most dangerous criminals in the country. And they meet one man who has dedicated his life to freeing them; Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa is the only hope many of these children have.
Burundi has no juvenile justice system and children above the age of 15 are tried as adults. By law any child under that age should not be imprisoned, but in a country recovering from civil war and where record keeping is scant, many underage children are slipping through the net and are being locked up.
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China's Lost Sons
Episode 5 - 4-22-2011
Reporter Oliver Steeds and producer Matt Haan travel to China to follow one father's inspirational search for his son, who was abducted and sold into slavery. They expose one of the untold stories behind China's economic boom, discovering how thousands of young men with mental impairments have been kidnapped and forced to work in brick factories.
The team meet 62-year-old farmer He Zhimin in Sanyuan town in central China. He Wen - his son who has the mental age of a child and used to live at home - went missing last June.
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Pakistan: Defenders of Karachi
Episode 4 - 4-15-2011
In 2010, more civilians were killed in political, ethnic and criminal violence in Karachi than in terrorist attacks across the whole of Pakistan.
While the state seems unable to control the violence, reporter Peter Oborne and director Edward Watts spend time with a few courageous individuals who are risking their lives to hold the line against anarchy in Pakistan's largest city.
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Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic
Episode 3 - 4-08-2011
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director James Jones travel from Italy to Africa to reveal how human traffickers are using black magic to coerce and trap Nigerian women into a life of prostitution in Europe.
Women are made to swear an oath of loyalty to their traffickers in an elaborate ritual that compels them to pay back extortionate sums of money. If they ever break free or report their traffickers, they believe they will be cursed.
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Congo: The Children Who Came Back from the Dead
Episode 2 - 4-01-2011
Unreported World travels to eastern Congo to witness the remarkable work of one man who liberates the child soldiers who have been forced to fight in one of the world's longest-running conflicts.
While they are fortunate enough to film the moments several dozen youngsters are released, the team also discovers that hundreds more are being abducted as rebels and the army prepare for a new round of fighting.
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India's Leprosy Heroes
Episode 1 - 3-25-2011
Unreported World meets remarkable people fighting back against leprosy in India, where millions affected by the disease are pushed to the margins of society, ostracised by their friends and families.
Based on targets set by the World Health Organization, the Indian government claims it has eliminated leprosy. However Unreported World reveals the numbers of new cases in some areas could be much higher than previously estimated.
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Season 11
Congo: The Children Who Came Back from the Dead
Episode 21 - 4-01-2011
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Thailand's Red Fever
Episode 20 - 12-10-2010
Unreported World investigates Senegal's Islamic schools.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Philips reveal how many young boys living in the religious schools are subjected to abuse, and forced by their guardians to beg on the streets for their survival. And they meet those trying to save the children from exploitation and abuse.
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Senegal: School for Beggars
Episode 19 - 11-26-2010
Unreported World investigates Senegal's Islamic schools.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Philips reveal how many young boys living in the religious schools are subjected to abuse, and forced by their guardians to beg on the streets for their survival. And they meet those trying to save the children from exploitation and abuse.
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India: Love on the Run
Episode 18 - 11-19-2010
As more young couples reject arranged marriages in modern India, Unreported World investigates a wave of violence that's left hundreds dead across the country's northwest states.
Reporter Annie Kelly and director Katherine Churcher reveal that, despite Indian law giving everyone the right to marry who they want, increasing numbers of young couples are facing death at the hands of their own families for defying centuries of tradition.
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Witches on Trial
Episode 17 - 11-12-2010
The Central African Republic is a country obsessed with black magic, where nearly half the prison population are convicted witches.
In villages and the capital witchcraft is used to explain every misfortune and it is such a powerful weapon that it is a feature of almost every family quarrel or village dispute. And, as Unreported World reveals, it's often the most vulnerable who are singled out.
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Pakistan: After the Floods
Episode 16 - 11-05-2010
Pakistan's floods may have receded but their catastrophic consequences continue. Reporter Peter Oborne and director Simon Phillips discover that incompetence and alleged corruption have caused poor areas to be flooded and rich ones protected. And in a country whose institutions are failing the people they are supposed to protect, they find ordinary Pakistanis striving to rebuild their lives.
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Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
Episode 15 - 10-29-2010
Zimbabwe is supposedly enjoying political stability under the coalition government formed in 2008. However, Unreported World finds a country still gripped by terror and violence.
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Mexico's Indian Rebellion
Episode 14 - 10-22-2010
In the mountains of southeastern Mexico, Unreported World finds 400 members of an indigenous community, who are fighting for independence, holed up in bullet-ridden homes and surrounded by a militia in an unreported war.
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Philippines: The City with Too Many People
Episode 13 - 10-15-2010
Manila is one of the world's most overpopulated cities.
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Richard Cookson find the Philippine capital stretched to breaking point, with mothers four to a bed in maternity wards, primary schools with a thousand children in each year, and graveyards with no more room to bury the dead.
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Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts
Episode 12 - 10-08-2010
While the world's focus is on the fight against the Taliban, Unreported World reveals a hidden result of the conflict in Afghanistan: a huge rise in the number of children addicted to opium and heroin in a country now said to have the youngest drug addicted population in the world.
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Malaria Town
Episode 11 - 10-01-2010
Unreported World visits the 'malaria capital of the world' in northern Uganda to investigate why this preventable and treatable disease is still such a problem.
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Colombia's Dying Tribes
Episode 10 - 7-02-2010
Unreported World investigates how Colombia's indigenous people have been targeted in a string of massacres perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the security forces.
Colombia's government claims success in its war against left-wing FARC guerrillas and in restoring law and order. But the country is still beset with a conflict that is killing thousands.
And as Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Katherine Churcher discover at a jungle massacre site where the pools of blood are still drying, behind the continuing violence there is a state of complete impunity. Nobody can explain why the massacre happened. Soldiers claim civilian attackers with pistols have murdered eight people. But local witnesses say they heard sustained bursts of automatic gunfire, hinting at the involvement of security forces.
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USA: Down and Out
Episode 9 - 6-25-2010
Unreported World meets the USA's new middle-class homeless: families struggling to hold down jobs that pay so little they're forced to live in tent cities or their cars and receive little help from the government.
Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Clancy Chassay begin their journey in Chicago, one of the country's manufacturing centres, which has been hit hard by the effects of the worst financial crisis in decades. St Columbanus church is one of 600 charities across the city that gives out emergency food rations.
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El Salvador: The Child Assassins
Episode 8 - 6-11-2010
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott visit El Salvador as it experiences its worst gang violence in a decade. Many of the gangs' hitmen are children who kill and die with appalling frequency but accept it as part of normal life. Navai and Nott expose another disturbing trend: the torture and murder of young teenage girls - victims of a gang culture that regards them as sexual objects.
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Bolivia's Child Miners
Episode 7 - 6-04-2010
Unreported World descends deep underground into Bolivia's silver mines to find boys as young as 13 working long hours in deadly conditions. The thick dust and poisonous gases in the mines mean the children face the near-certainty of crippling lung disease and a life expectancy of little more than 35 years.
The mines are centered around Potosi in the Bolivian Andes, the highest city in the world. Looming over it is a legendary mountain, the Cerro Rico. It has been mined for hundreds of years and is now being exploited by co-operatives of up to 10,000 miners.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan meet 14-year-old Jose Luis, who works with 400 other miners at the San Jacinto mine, one of the largest on the mountain. He tells Rhodes that he's working in the mine because school starts in a few days and he needs money for a new uniform. Like most of the 200,000 people in Potosi, he comes from an indigenous Indian background. Although the indigenous people have recently won a decades-long struggle for political freedom in Bolivia they are still poorer than their white compatriots.
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Iraq's Next Battlefield
Episode 6 - 5-28-2010
As the US prepares to withdraw from Iraq, reporter Evan Williams and director Matt Haan travel to the most dangerous part of the country and find increasing religious, ethnic and political violence in this oil-rich region threatening to spill into bloody civil war once the troops leave.
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Inside Burma's Secret State
Episode 5 - 5-21-2010
Unreported World gets a rare glimpse into the Karen region of Burma.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Phillips spend two weeks trekking through forests to reveal the devastation the Burmese army is inflicting as it intensifies its war against the Karen people.
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Tobacco's Child Workers
Episode 4 - 5-14-2010
Unreported World travels to Malawi to reveal that children as young as three are being illegally employed to produce tobacco, much of it destined to be consumed by British smokers.
Malawi's children suffer health problems from handling tobacco and some are trapped in bonded labour arrangements, leaving them unable to escape. Little seems to be being done to protect their health and wellbeing.
In Mchinji district, reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer Julie Noon find a group of 15 to 20 children sorting tobacco by the roadside. Emilida and her three children - including her three-year-old son - have been working there since dawn. She tells Kleeman the four of them will get about 80 pence for a day's work. The air is thick with tobacco dust and Emilida says it makes the family feel unwell.
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Pakistan's Terror Central
Episode 3 - 4-09-2010
Unreported World is granted rare access to the Pakistan headquarters of what the US and UN say is a front organisation for one of the world's biggest terrorist networks, and the organisation behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
While the group says it's a charity set up to help the poor, reporter Evan Williams talks to insiders, government ministers and terrorism experts to investigate the truth about an organisation that has expanded its activities from Kashmir to attacking western targets outside Pakistan.
Williams and director Will West begin their journey in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province. They have a meeting with Asadullah, a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba - 'The Army of the Righteous'. The terrorist organisation has been directly blamed for the Mumbai attacks that killed 173 people, and a string of other deadly attacks in India. Asadullah tells Williams he and 26 friends fought in Kashmir, but he was the only one who survived.
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Nigeria's Killing Fields
Episode 2 - 4-02-2010
As the world's attention focuses on recent sectarian violence in Nigeria, Unreported World provides an exclusive report on the events leading up to the latest round of bloodletting.
Reporter Peter Oborne and director Andy Wells were the only television journalists in the town of Jos in the immediate aftermath of a previous outburst of sectarian violence, which left 500 people dead. There, they uncover the truth about the convulsion of barbarism that is afflicting a country, and which is rapidly spiralling out of control.
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End of the Elephant?
Episode 1 - 3-26-2010
Unreported World goes undercover to investigate how the increased Chinese presence in East Africa has lead to a huge increase in elephant poaching, with potentially devastating effects on tourism and the local economy.
The team also hears astonishing claims that when Chinese president Hu Jintao travelled to Tanzania for a state visit, his officials left with large quantities of illegal ivory.
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Alex Nott begin their journey at a conservation area in northern Kenya, run by Kuki Gallman. She says that elephant poaching has risen from six animals in 2007 to 57 in 2009, just in her small area. It's not long before the team discovers the carcasses of several elephants, killed for their tusks. Local gamekeepers say that poachers spray herds indiscriminately with AK 47s, killing babies, mothers and pregnant elephants. Kuki says it's the highest death toll for decades and elephants are at risk of becoming extinct in the area.
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Season 10
Israel: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Episode 21 - 11-27-2009
Unreported World travels to Israel to reveal how the rapid growth of Jewish 'fundamentalists' is creating tension within Israeli society and endangering any negotiations on a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Reporter Evan Williams and director Alex Nott begin their journey in the Mea Sharim district of Jerusalem. It's the heartland of ultra-Orthodox Jews known as the Haredi, or 'those who fear God'. They find a poor, overcrowded part of the city where everyone is wearing clothes in the style of 18th-century Europe, from where most of their ancestors came. 'We are the real Jews,' says one community leader, 'everyone else in Israel just happens to be born Jewish.'
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Israel: The Battle for Israel's Soul
Episode 20 - 11-27-2009
Unreported World travels to Israel to reveal how the rapid growth of Jewish 'fundamentalists' is creating tension within Israeli society and endangering any negotiations on a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Reporter Evan Williams and director Alex Nott begin their journey in the Mea Sharim district of Jerusalem. It's the heartland of ultra-Orthodox Jews known as the Haredi, or 'those who fear God'. They find a poor, overcrowded part of the city where everyone is wearing clothes in the style of 18th-century Europe, from where most of their ancestors came. 'We are the real Jews,' says one community leader, 'everyone else in Israel just happens to be born Jewish.'
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Malaysia: Refugees for Sale
Episode 19 - 11-20-2009
Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials to Thai human traffickers.
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director George Waldrum travel to Kuala Lumpur to highlight how the refugees are forced to exchange one hellish existence for another. Living in complete fear of the state, the refugees claim they are being rounded up and subjected to bloody whippings and indefinite imprisonment in overcrowded detention camps. As Unreported World reveals, for some this is just the beginning of a horrific journey into the trafficking network, where men, women and children disappear into a world of slavery and prostitution.
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Nepal: The Living Dead
Episode 18 - 11-13-2009
Unreported World highlights the tragic plight of Nepal's child widows, some of whom are as young as thirteen. Many face abuse and servitude for the rest of their lives, ostracised by their families and communities, and often forced to sell their bodies to provide food and shelter for themselves and their children.
Reporter Yemi Ipaye and director Katherine Churcher begin their journey in south-eastern Nepal. Nearly half the country's population live here and child marriage is prevalent. The team meets frail and fragile 14-year-old Gita, who was forced into marriage against her will by her parents when she was just 11 years old. At 13 she became a widow, and has been ostracised, treated with contempt and told that she's cursed. She says her parents are trying to get her remarried and that they sometimes beat her.
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South Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine
Episode 17 - 11-06-2009
Escalating violence in South Sudan has claimed more lives in 2009 than the conflict in Darfur, but has been largely ignored by the western media. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Julie Noon uncover a disturbing new trend of women and children being directly targeted. More than 2000 people have been killed in 2009 in South Sudan, and a quarter of a million people displaced. The unrest is threatening to destroy the 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest and bloodiest civil war, which lasted 22 years and saw over two million people killed.
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Greece: The Unwanted
Episode 16 - 10-30-2009
As the French and British governments discuss how to deal with migrants camped outside Calais, Unreported World travels to the European Union's eastern border, to the illicit crossing points for hundreds of thousands of Afghans making their way to our shores.
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Jacob Waite begin their journey on Turkey's north-west coast, just eight miles from Greece and the EU. It's 2.40am and the team come across a people smuggler and 25 migrants - men, women, children and even toddlers, all from Afghanistan.
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Guatemala: Riding with the Devil
Episode 15 - 10-23-2009
Bus drivers in Guatemala City are being murdered at a rate of one every other day as part of a campaign of extortion that threatens to bring the city to its knees. Extortion is the main source of income for Guatemala's criminal gangs, earning them millions of dollars a year, and the drivers are killed to instil fear as the gangs maintain their grip on the city.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan begin their journey at Santa Rosa on the outskirts of the city. A bus driver has been shot at nine in the morning. The family have already arrived at the scene and are distraught. The bus company owner says he doesn't know why his driver was shot, but eight other divers have been killed on the same route in the last year.
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Liberia: Stolen Childhood
Episode 14 - 10-16-2009
Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis. Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the west African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims - a quarter of them under four years of age. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan begin their disturbing journey in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. They meet Mercy, a six-year-old girl who was abducted and raped two weeks previously. She is now taking drugs to try to stop her from contracting HIV and lives in a safe house, run by a Liberian charity, many of whose inhabitants can never return home; reporting the rape is seen as disgracing the family, especially if the perpetrator is a relative.
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Peru: Blood and Oil
Episode 13 - 10-09-2009
Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global corporations has led to violent clashes with thousands of indigenous tribal people.
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Philippines: Holy Warriors
Episode 12 - 10-02-2009
Unreported World uncovers a deepening sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in the Philippines. The battle for land on the southern Filipino island of Mindanao has already claimed 100,000 lives and created a humanitarian disaster with 600,000 people being driven from their homes.
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Ingushetia: Russia's Dirty War
Episode 11 - 9-25-2009
Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of 'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every year.
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Brazil: The Killables
Episode 10 - 5-15-2009
Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of 'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every year.
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Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic
Episode 9 - 5-08-2009
Unreported World travels to one of the most remote parts of the world, to investigate the growth of 'witch' murders in Papua New Guinea. More than fifty people accused of being witches were tortured and murdered last year in two provinces alone and the programme reveals that the problem is now spreading from remote highland areas into the towns. Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Katherine Churcher meet the victims, the so called witch hunters and the police struggling to keep order.
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Afghanistan: Waiting for the Taliban
Episode 8 - 5-01-2009
Peter Oborne finds that the resurgent Taliban and increasingly powerful criminal gangs are creating levels of instability and lawlessness that many liken to the period before the Taliban's first rise to power
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India: Children of the Inferno
Episode 7 - 4-24-2009
Aidan Hartley visits North East India, where vast subterranean coal fires burn out of control beneath towns and villages, children mine coal day in day out, and half a million people are being moved out of their ancestral villages to make way for the coal mines fuelling India's growth.
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China and North Korea: The Great Escape
Episode 6 - 4-17-2009
Oliver Steeds witnesses North Koreans who flee to China, forced to live in miserable conditions and vulnerable to being sent back to hard labour camps, some commit suicide, others are easy targets for sex traffickers and some are even sold into marriage to Chinese husbands
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Haiti: The Island That Ate Itself
Episode 5 - 4-10-2009
Aidan Hartley visits a country locked in a vicious cycle of environmental disaster, hunger, poverty and reliance on international aid
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Sierra Leone: Insanity of War
Episode 4 - 4-03-2009
Seyi Rhodes finds that ten years on from one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, a population which has lived through rape, torture and public executions is served by just one psychiatrist
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Turkey: Killing for Honour
Episode 3 - 3-27-2009
Ramita Navai reports that 200 girls and women have been victims of honour killings in the past year alone and that a new law outlawing honour killings may have led to a huge increase in forced suicides.
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Cambodia: Selling the Killing Fields
Episode 2 - 3-20-2009
Jenny Kleeman reveals how, at the same time as Pol Pot's accomplices are put on trial, Cambodia's people are once again being brutally driven from their land, this time by a property boom fueled by tourism.
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Congo: Forest of the Dead
Episode 1 - 3-13-2009
Nima Elbagir finds the child soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army being told that they are engaged in a war against the entire world as they take over villages and wage a campaign of terror
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Season 9
Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
Episode 19 - 12-19-2008
This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.
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Yemen: Sea of Tears
Episode 18 - 12-12-2008
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Thailand: Lessons in Terror
Episode 17 - 12-05-2008
Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
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Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
Episode 16 - 11-21-2008
Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
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Philippines' Dirty War
Episode 15 - 11-14-2008
Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
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Paraguay's Painful Harvest
Episode 14 - 11-07-2008
Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
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Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
Episode 13 - 10-31-2008
Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
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India: God's Own Country
Episode 12 - 10-24-2008
Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
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South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
Episode 11 - 10-17-2008
Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
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Kenya's Human Time Bomb
Episode 10 - 4-18-2008
Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
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Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
Episode 9 - 4-11-2008
Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
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Benin: Voodoo Children
Episode 8 - 4-04-2008
Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
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Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
Episode 7 - 3-28-2008
Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
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Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
Episode 6 - 3-14-2008
Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
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Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
Episode 5 - 3-07-2008
Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
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Russia: Railway of Bones
Episode 4 - 2-29-2008
Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
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Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
Episode 3 - 2-22-2008
Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
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USA: The Devil's Highway
Episode 2 - 2-15-2008
Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
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Egypt's Rubbish People
Episode 1 - 2-08-2008
Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.
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Season 8
Congo: Children of the Genocide
Episode 20
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.
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Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Episode 19
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.
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Colombia: Cocaine City
Episode 18 - 11-02-2007
Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.
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Iraq: The Battle for Oil
Episode 17 - 10-26-2007
Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.
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China's Olympic Lie
Episode 16 - 10-19-2007
Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
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Honduras: The War on Children
Episode 15 - 10-12-2007
Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
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Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country
Episode 14 - 10-05-2007
Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
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South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Episode 13 - 9-21-2007
Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.
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India's Broken People
Episode 12 - 9-21-2007
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.
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Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money
Episode 11 - 9-14-2007
Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.
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Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)
Episode 10 - 6-15-2006
Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.
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Israel's Wild West
Episode 9 - 6-08-2007
Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.
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East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Episode 8 - 6-01-2007
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.
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Kosovo: State of Denial
Episode 7 - 5-25-2007
Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror
Episode 6 - 5-18-2007
Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.
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Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)
Episode 5 - 5-11-2007
Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.
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Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes
Episode 4 - 5-05-2007
Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.
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Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
Episode 3 - 4-27-2007
Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.
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Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover
Episode 2 - 4-20-2007
Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.
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Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
Episode 1 - 4-13-2007
Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.
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Season 7
Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War
Episode 20 - 12-15-2006
Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11.
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Japan: Red Sun Rising
Episode 19 - 12-08-2006
Evan Williams on how an increasingly influential far-right nationalist movement is trying to persuade the Japanese government to rewrite the country's constitution and become a nuclear power.
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Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban
Episode 18 - 12-01-2006
Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan.
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Mexico: The Longest Journey
Episode 17 - 11-24-2006
Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA.
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Lebanon on the Brink
Episode 16 - 11-17-2006
Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment.
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Nigeria: Fire in the Delta
Episode 15 - 11-10-2006
Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.
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Guatemala: City of the Dead
Episode 14 - 11-03-2006
Ramita Navai exposes how areas of the country’s capital have degenerated into violent lawlessness in a three way battle between gangs, vigilante groups and the security forces.
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India's Hidden War
Episode 13 - 10-27-2006
Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war.
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West Papua: Rainforest Warriors
Episode 12 - 10-20-2006
This week’s Unreported World travels to one of the remotest places on earth, where journalists are forbidden to work and usually arrested when they arrive, and where a bloody conflict between government forces and locals is rarely glimpsed by the outside world.
Reporter Evan Williams and Director Siobhan Sinnerton spend three weeks undercover in West Papua, an outlying province of Indonesia in the Western Pacific, which is home to the world’s biggest copper and gold mine.
Getting in to West Papua is extremely difficult. Obtaining official journalist accreditation is virtually impossible so the team have to film clandestinely” They begin their journey in Wamena in the remote western highlands. Waiting inside a safe house, hiding from the Indonesian authorities, they meet a group of tribal warriors who have travelled for days to be there. They tell Unreported World that at least 12 of their friends have been killed by the security forces, and claim that thousands more have been killed in a campaign which could wipe out their ethnic group.
West Papua’s tribes lived in stone-age isolation until they were discovered by Europeans in the 1930s. Indonesia annexed the area in the 1969, after a group of selected West Papuans voted for annexation, but the rest of the population were not allowed a chance to vote. Since then hundreds of thousands of Indonesians have been subsidised to settle in West Papua, and they now control most of the commerce – leading to seething resentment and conflict between the two groups.
In the company of guides from the West Papuan underground, the team trek deep into ancient forests to tribal villages affected by the conflict. At one village they find the inhabitants crying and wearing mud as a sign of mourning for their children who have been allegedly killed or “disappeared” by the security forces. Some mothers are so heartbroken that they have mutilated themselves by cutting off their fingers.
But while some grieve, others have used their traditional weapons – bows, arrows and poison – against the Indonesians. Papuan students have been at the forefront of protests which have involved the deaths of Indonesian security forces and scores of them are hiding in the mountains. Reaching them involves another long trek through the forests.
The students are protesting against Freeport, the big US gold and copper mine in the South of the Province. It’s West Papua’s biggest resource, but the students claim that Freeport does not pay enough of its annual revenues to help the native inhabitants.
The team then risk immediate arrest by arranging to meet members of the West Papuan armed resistance – the outlawed Free Papua Movement (OPM). The area is so remote they have to travel by plane, deep into the highlands and close to the Freeport mine. Some OPM members have trekked for a week to meet them, and finally Kelly Kwalik, their leader and one of the most wanted men in the whole of Indonesia arrives.
He tells Unreported World that West Papua is rich in natural resources but that Papuans remain poor while Indonesians benefit.
There seems little chance of reconciliation and as the OPM members raise their flag, the act is a potent symbol of how an argument over mineral resources has become a battle against the slow suffocation of a people and their way of life.
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South Africa: The New Apartheid
Episode 11 - 10-13-2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence.
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Brazil: Slum Warfare
Episode 10 - 6-30-2006
Khaled Khazziha films in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, with the permission of the local drug-lords who run it as a state within a state.
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Episode 9 - 6-23-2006
Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia.
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Chad and Sudan (Dafur)
Episode 8 - 6-09-2006
Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians.
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Malaysia: Asia's Slaves
Episode 7 - 6-02-2006
Ramita Navai examines the plight of those Indonesian workers who, with their passports retained by their employers, are abused and treated as slaves.
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Turkey: Europe's Hidden War
Episode 6 - 5-26-2006
Matthew McAllester travels to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group.
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Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge
Episode 5 - 5-19-2006
Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006.
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Philippines: City of Guilt
Episode 4 - 5-12-2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the impact of the government's pro-life policy on women as illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured.
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Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara
Episode 3 - 5-05-2006
Khaled Khazziha, in a refugee camp, meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco.
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Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps
Episode 2 - 4-28-2006
Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor.
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Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows
Episode 1 - 4-21-2006
Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government.
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Season 6
Colombia's Secret War
Episode 10
Sandra Jordan investigates what US military aid and advisers are really doing in Colombia, in the name of the War on Terror.
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Gaza: The Bullet and the Ballot Box
Episode 8 - 12-03-2005
Sandra Jordan visits Gaza as the Israeli forces complete their withdrawal from the territory and asks whether the Palestinians will choose violent resistance or diplomatic negotiation as they continue to seek an independent state.
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Somalia: Al-Qaeda's New Haven
Episode 7 - 11-26-2005
Aidan Hartley reports on the increasing strength of the Islamic Courts Union, which the US alleges to be linked to Al-Qaeda.
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Iraq: On the Front Line
Episode 6 - 11-19-2005
Peter Osborne travels to Iraq and joins a US Infantry Division based in Baqubah, near Baghdad.
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Brazil: Slaves of the Amazon
Episode 5 - 7-16-2005
Sam Kiley travels to the heart of the Amazon in Brazil and reports on the rise in the use of unpaid labourers.
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Thailand: Ghost Warriors
Episode 4 - 7-09-2005
Sandra Jordan investigates the spate of violence in rural areas of the south of Thailand, where it is unclear who is fighting who.
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Papua New Guinea: Rambo Nation
Episode 3 - 6-25-2005
Sam Kiley investigates the worsening of tribal conflicts in Papua New Guinea.
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Peru and Bolivia: Inca Revolution
Episode 2 - 6-18-2005
Sandra Jordan reports that members of the indigenous population are rejecting western capitalism and its influence.
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India: Land of Missing Children
Episode 1 - 6-11-2005
Sam Kiley investigates the trafficking of children in India for the sex trade in Calcutta and Bombay.
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Season 5
Venezuela: El Comandante
Episode 8 - 10-30-2004
Sandra Jordan studies Hugo Chavez's relationship with the US and reports on his overwhelming referendum victory achieved in spite of US funding of opposition groups.
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Angola: America's new Frontiere
Episode 7 - 10-23-2004
Sam Kiley finds that Angola is developing into a capitalist country and a potentially important supplier of oil to the US.
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Vietnam: Hearts, Minds and Souls
Episode 6 - 10-16-2004
Sandra Jordan reports on the activities of American evangelicals spreading American values along with Protestantism.
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Afghanistan: Occupation Lite
Episode 5 - 10-09-2004
Sam Kiley reports on the US occupation of Afghanistan.
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Guyana: Bitter Harvest
Episode 4 - 4-24-2004
Zaiba Malik finds that economic problems are adding to political turmoil and ethnic violence between those of African and Indian origin.
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Yemen: Reluctant Friends
Episode 3 - 4-17-2004
Juliana Ruhfus investigates the strength of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and the attitudes of the people to the US, Al-Qaeda and the "War on Terror".
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South Africa: SA Law
Episode 2 - 4-10-2004
Farai Sevenso takes a look at law and order in South Africa and accompanies a private security company on patrol.
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India: The Killing of Kashmir
Episode 1 - 4-08-2004
Sandra Jordan investigates the reality of occupation and resistance in Kashmir.
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Season 4
Israel: Clubbing on the Front Line
Episode 8 - 12-05-2003
What is it like to be a young person in Israel today, trying to live a normal life against a backdrop of conflict and the ever-present threat of suicide bombings?
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Kenya: Trouble in Paradise
Episode 7 - 11-28-2003
Juliana Ruhfus asks if a frantic effort to regain the West's confidence is pushing Kenya's Muslim population towards extremism.
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Thailand: A Quick Fix
Episode 6 - 11-21-2003
Zaiba Malik investigates claims that the government's attempts to eradicate the world's worst methamphetamine addiction problem have led to state-sanctioned executions in the street.
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Uganda: The Children's War
Episode 5 - 11-14-2003
Farai Sevenso investigates the role of child solders in the 17-year-old war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government.
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Mexico: The City of Lost Girls
Episode 4 - 11-07-2003
Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez where more than 370 women have been murdered, at least 137 of them subjected to rape.
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Haiti: Voodoo Nation
Episode 3 - 3-14-2003
Juliana Ruhfus reports on a nation torn apart by economic collapse, political anarchy and gang warfare.
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Ivory Coast: Enemies Within
Episode 2 - 3-07-2003
William Wallis witnesses the horrors of a civil war born out of economic recession and fuelled by ethnic hatred.
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Nepal: Raising the Red Flag
Episode 1 - 2-21-2003
Sandra Jordan investigates the causes and human cost of the on-going Maoist rebellion in the world's only Hindu Kingdom.
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Season 3
El Salvador: Killing to Belong
Episode 8 - 12-20-2002
Sandra Jordan reports on how refugees deported back to El Salvador have established the gang culture they grew up with in the US.
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Indonesia's Dirty War
Episode 7 - 12-13-2002
Jonathan Miller finds that security forces have been committing human rights abuses against civilians in their attempts to suppress a rebel army fighting for independence.
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Nigeria: The Country that Doesn't Work
Episode 6 - 11-25-2002
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India: Saffron Warrior
Episode 5 - 7-27-2002
Burhan Wazir investigates the ultra-nationalist groups who are redefining modern India.
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Philippines: The Bearers of the Sword
Episode 4 - 2-08-2002
Jonathan Miller investigates Al-Qaeda's alleged Southeast Asian connections, including the kidnap gang Abu Sayyaf.
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Somalia
Episode 3 - 1-25-2002
Juliana Ruhfus visits at a country blighted by war and poverty and ruled by warlords, and asks if America's attempts to control Islamic extremism in the country will only further radicalise its population.
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Uzbekistan: Our New Friend
Episode 2 - 1-18-2002
Marcel Theroux finds that government repression has driven young people towards joining the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and asks if the "War on Terror" will accelerate the process.
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Gaza: Journeys To Heaven & Hell
Episode 1 - 1-11-2002
Sandra Jordan investigates why so many young Palestinians have turned to violence in their struggle for self-determination.
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Season 2
Mauritania: Selling the Future
Episode 7 - 11-16-2001
Kim Willsher reports on the impact of the European Union's fishing agreement on fishermen in Mauritania.
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China: Handle with Care
Episode 6 - 11-09-2001
Jonathan Miller looks at the economic growth of China and the price behind such economic success in terms of society and the treatment of workers.
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Islam and America through the Eyes of Imran Khan
Episode 5 - 11-02-2001
Imran Khan travels around Pakistan to reveal attitudes towards America, Osama Bin Laden and the military campaign and bombings in Afghanistan.
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Colombia's Oil Fix
Episode 4 - 10-26-2001
Saira Shah finds that the oil boom in Colombia has caused an increase in misery and violence for much of the population.
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Bolivia: Coca or Death
Episode 3 - 10-12-2001
Sandra Jordan looks at the American policy of trying to solve its cocaine drugs problems by eradicating coca production in Bolivia and the consequences and effects this has on the country and its population.
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Chechnya: Being Nice to Mr Putin
Episode 2 - 10-05-2001
Marcel Theroux investigates life and conditions in Chechnya and how European governments are deliberately ignoring Russian atrocities and oppression in order to maintain good diplomatic and business relations with Russia.
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Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War
Episode 1 - 9-28-2001
Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the production of mobile phones, is at the root of the war in Congo.
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Season 1
Indonesia: A 21st Century War
Episode 4 - 9-29-2000
Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians.
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Sudan: Market of Death
Episode 3 - 9-22-2000
Saira Shah travels to the centre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies.
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Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table
Episode 2 - 9-15-2000
Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day.
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Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil
Episode 1 - 9-08-2000
Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.
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