Unreported World

Reporter Anja Popp is in Nigeria, home to one of the world's most prolific film industries, to meet the women risking their livelihoods and reputations to push boundaries on screen.

Japan is often portrayed as a modern utopia, but beneath its polished exterior, one of the world's oldest populations is reaching a breaking point. As traditional multi-generational families break down, millions of elderly people are being left in isolation and poverty - with many turning to petty theft to survive. As Japanese prisons become retirement homes for a growing number of elderly convicts, Krishnan Guru-Murthy investigates this geriatric crime wave gripping the country.

The civil war in Sudan has forced more people from their homes than anywhere else on earth. Krishnan Guru-Murthy gains rare access to one Sudanese region, to find over a million people on the brink of starvation. Since the start of the war between the Sudanese government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), 11.3 million people have fled their homes. Over half of the population, around 30 million people, need humanitarian assistance. Famine has been declared in parts of the country, including areas of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. This semi-autonomous area has become a refuge to over a million people fleeing bombings, executions and rape. Krishnan travels deep inside the territory and meets one nurse caring for around 5000 people. Her work bears witness to the scale of the current crisis, as hungry children line up to be seen, and old men die alone in tents. To survive, people scavenge - eating leaves, insects and even rats. In a nearby hospital, one of just three doctors in the region explains that international assistance is nowhere to be seen, as other conflicts like Ukraine and Gaza steal the headlines. Survivors report of horrendous ethnic violence, adding to the catalogue of war crimes being alleged, including sexual violence. 

Unreported World investigates a so-called 'discipline camp' in South Africa. The camps promise to reform children who can't be controlled by their parents. But reporter Sahar Zand discovers an abusive side to its methods. South Africa's youth are in crisis. Drug use is surging, as is violence in the classroom. Parents are struggling to control their children and a thriving 'troubled teen' industry has emerged. At the forefront of this movement is 25-year-old Prince Motlou, who says his Rising Stars Generation discipline camp offers military-style training that will send hundreds of children back to their parents with newfound respect. But it becomes clear that this is no ordinary boot camp; that it's something far more sinister, with children marching for hours in the heat and without water. Children are searched for contraband, and physical violence is used despite corporal punishment being illegal in South Africa. Some children come forward with shocking allegations of sexual abuse. One of Prince Motlou's previous camps is under police investigation after two boys drowned. Motlou, who likes to be known as Emperor General, denies any wrongdoing. 

Unreported World reports from France on the feminists taking the far-right to within touching distance of power. Darshna Soni talks to the growing movement of students, journalists and activists who believe migrants are a problem. Last year, for the first time, the far-right National Rally came close to securing power with 33% of the vote in the first round of parliamentary elections. Although it was defeated in subsequent rounds, the far-right party gained 38 seats in parliament. National Rally has a growing support from women, a new breed of so-called Femo-nationalists waging a fight for the soul of French feminism. Soni meets 20-year-old Kaïna Méné, who's tearing down left-wing posters protesting against the war in Gaza, in favour of her student group, who believe that immigration is a threat to women's safety. Soni tracks down a controversial and social-media-savvy group called the Nemesis Collective, who routinely protest against migration and are linked to groups in the UK associated with far-right extremist Tommy Robinson. When Soni attempts to question Alice Cordier, the group's founder, she's met with a hostile reception. 

Unreported World reports from Brazil, where Elon Musk's Starlink is transforming isolated tribes living in the Amazon. Reporter Guillermo Galdos travels deep inside the rainforest to find out if the internet revolution is for better or worse. The Amazon is the internet's final frontier, and the Javari Valley reserve is home to the largest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world. Starlink antennas have divided Marubo leaders, who disagree on whether its immediate benefits outweigh the possible long-term loss of their culture and way of life. In the village of São Sebastião, which lies 500 miles by river from the nearest city, Galdos meets Cloves and his 13-year-old son Wany. Cloves introduced Starlink to the village, believing the internet would help with healthcare and education. But the impact of screens showing the outside world was immediate, and in just 18 months most of the village's teenagers have left. On a boat patrol in an area renowned for the illegal smuggling of gold, timber and drugs, Indigenous communities are using Starlink to protect the Amazon's precious resources. But criminals also use the technology to help their operations, and government agencies responsible for the Javari Valley are taking a keen interest in those bringing Starlink to the Amazon.

In Gaza, young couples are getting married amid the destruction. Gaza is under siege, but some are determined to tie the knot anyway. Filmed from December 2024, Unreported World follows two couples trying to live and make plans in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, which Israel says is a safe zone for the 1.9m displaced residents. There is also the work of wedding photographer Najah reflecting on how the splendour of Gaza's famously elaborate weddings has changed since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, prompting an Israeli bombardment and blockade that's left between 48,000 to 61,000 Palestinians dead. On the outskirts of one of southern Gaza's many camps for displaced people, Hamza plans to marry his fiancée Nada. Forced to evacuate northern Gaza, Hamza buys and builds a marital home - in his case a tent - with the help of his family. Mohammad and Shaimaa are determined to marry but struggle with price increases and the idea of starting a new life in a displacement camp. As a fragile ceasefire takes hold early in 2025, the two couples go back to their homes in northern Gaza, where they confront the challenges of having to rebuild again.

How a controversial new generation of young women known as slay queens are monetising South Africa's dating culture. Slay queens flaunt luxury lifestyles online funded by wealthy 'blessers' - inspiring both admiration and anger. As Symeon Brown reports, to their followers, they're glamorous entrepreneurs breaking free from poverty and oppression. To their critics, they're dangerous gold diggers who blur the lines between dating, sex work - and scams.

After a 2016 peace deal following a 50-year civil war, Colombia has once again become engulfed in violence, as guerrilla groups battle for control of coca fields and lucrative smuggling routes. In the past year alone, more than 50,000 people have been forced from their homes and civilians face the daily threat of killings, forced recruitment and displacement. Guillermo Galdos travels deep into the Catatumbo region to understand the fight for cocaine production and gains rare access to Colombia's special forces as they launch operations against guerrilla fighters.

In Los Angeles, families are living in fear of President Trump's anti-immigration drive, as ICE are tasked to make 3000 arrests a day, leading to anger and resistance.

In Israel, a murder epidemic is devastating Arab-Israeli communities. Krishnan Guru-Murthy investigates why most of these killings go unsolved. With much focus on the conflict in Gaza and rising hostilities in the West Bank, Krishnan asks why hundreds of Arab-Israeli citizens are being murdered each year in Israel itself? Arab citizens make up one-fifth of Israel's population, but nearly three-quarters of its murder victims. When Israeli-Jews are murdered around 75 percent of cases are solved, compared to around 15 percent when the victim is Arab-Israeli. Krishnan discovers Arab organised crime families tightening their grip on towns long neglected by the state. In some areas, residents say they're living under gang rule and accuse Israel's right-wing government of turning a blind eye to the killings. In the coastal town of Jisr az-Zarqa, Krishnan meets families mourning sons shot dead in the street and mothers who say the police never even came to take witness statements. He meets a former gangster who says weapons from Israel's own police and army are being sold to criminals. While community figures and an opposition politician accuse the government of deliberately abandoning Arab citizens to lawlessness and fear, Israel's police say it's doing everything it can to stop the violence.

In Tenerife, squatters are taking over homes prompting hotels and property owners to turn to hard-man evictors to get them out. The Canary Islands attract 16 million tourists a year, but a deepening housing crisis is turning the Spanish region into a battleground, as people who say they can no longer afford soaring rents are occupying other people's properties instead. Under Spanish law, once people occupy a property for 48 hours, a court order is needed to evict them - and this can take years. Reporter Anja Popp joins a controversial new force of private eviction teams employed by property owners.

The US-based students, divided by the conflict in Gaza, who are fighting for their voices to be heard on campus. At Columbia University, two pro-Palestinian groups have been banned for holding unauthorised protests - a move that members say is about shutting down criticism of Israel. Amid allegations of intimidation, antisemitism and Islamophobia, reporter Kiran Moodley follows a Palestinian student and a Jewish-American student to see if he can find common ground.

Unreported World meets the pregnant women fleeing war-torn Haiti.

In Mauritania, women are ditching their husbands and throwing parties to celebrate. Reporter Ayshah Tull explores the country's thriving divorce economy.

The illegal logging trade in Romania, where a so-called timber mafia is chopping down Europe's last remaining virgin forests. Reporter Amelia Jenne follows the conservationists risking their lives to stop the corruption that's destroying the lungs of Europe. Environmental campaigners and law enforcement believe that half of the timber harvested in Romania is illegal. The European Union has launched legal action against the Romanian government, which continues to authorise logging in protected areas that are rich in wildlife and vital in the fight against climate change.

The Korean Wave is taking the world by storm, and Korean Pop, or K-pop, is at the forefront. Krishnan Guru-Murthy goes inside South Korea's K-pop dance schools, investigating the hidden cost of becoming the next big idol. He learns how teenagers are crafted to be idols with relentless training regimes, scripted answers and picture-perfect looks, though just one per cent will 'make it big'.

Drug seizures across Spain are on the rise, with more than 90 million tonnes seized last year. Most is found in shipping containers and ports, but in the coastal region of Galicia, Guillermo Galdos discovers a network of seasoned smugglers operating under the police's radar. As cocaine production surges in Latin America, authorities in Spain are increasingly on the lookout for small so-called 'narco-subs' - home-made contraptions, each capable of carrying tonnes of cocaine across the Atlantic to Europe.

As the world's largest exporter of corn and soy, Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse, yet just one per cent of the population owns almost half the land. The uneven distribution of land is felt hardest by the country's working poor, and despite its natural riches, over a quarter of Brazil's households are considered food insecure. In a nation with a history of land disputes turning deadly, reporter Symeon Brown tracks down communist activists who are taking land from the rich to give to the poor as well as a landowner and founding member of a movement intent on defending private property.

Madeeha Syed heads to Pakistan to meet the young female hip-hop artists trying to thrive in what were once Karachi's most deadly neighbourhoods. A generation of young rappers are turning away from the gangs, capitalising on the area's relative calm. However, embracing western-inspired music isn't without its risks as many performers have to juggle the politics of their conservative neighbourhood, the requirements of family and religious opposition to their chosen profession.

Mexico's government says its policy of mandatory pre-trial detention is a vital tool for its war against drug cartels. However, as Darshna Soni discovers, close to 90,000 people are now stuck in limbo behind bars awaiting trial. The measure means that around 40 per cent of Mexico's prisoners haven't been convicted. Soni follows Juan Antonio's efforts to challenge his detention. She goes inside the maximum-security jail which has held him for more than two years and also tracks down a victim of alleged police brutality, who claims she was forced to confess to her husband's kidnapping.

Almost 8,000 people are homeless in Vegas - a 56 per cent increase in three years. Jordan Jarret-Bryan investigates how the city is responding to this crisis as he visits a network of subterranean tunnels that have become a refuge. Jordan meets Echo Marie, who lives in a tunnel just four feet high. In a city that has made living on the street a crime, and having been moved by police from one neighbourhood to another, Echo says a tunnel is the safest place to live. However, life underground is still risky - some tunnels are drug ridden, while all those underground risk being washed away by the rain.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports on the political paralysis gripping Lebanon, where public services are in tatters, power cuts are routine, and because of hyperinflation medicine is expensive and in short supply. Across the nation, over a million people have been locked out of their bank accounts, able only to withdraw a few hundred pounds of their own money a month. Guru-Murthy interviews Riad Salameh, long-serving governor of the Central Bank, who since their discussion has charged with money laundering, illicit enrichment and embezzlement.

Guillermo Galdos follows Brazilian federal police cracking down on illegal mining in protected Indigenous regions and the network of companies dealing in the precious metal. Officially Brazil exports a hundred tons of gold a year. But efforts by police, academics and non-governmental organisations reveal evidence that possibly almost half of Brazil's gold trade comes from an illegal source, raising serious concerns for tech companies using gold in their products.

Reporter Secunder Kermani explores a community of North Koreans living in Japan who feel a close bond with one of the world's most repressive states. He spends time with Koreans born and raised in Japan who have their own unique schooling system, complete with portraits of North Korean leaders in every classroom. In Kyoto, Japan's cultural capital, Secunder gains rare access to a grouping known as the Chongryon, a powerful residents association with strong links to the North Korean regime.

Symeon Brown investigates how one influential preacher in Kenya could have led hundreds of men, women and children to their deaths. So far 429 bodies have been exhumed from graves in Shakahola Forest, where Pastor Paul Mackenzie is accused of inviting his followers to meet Jesus and witness the 'end of days'. Mackenzie denies any wrongdoing, but Symeon tracks down the survivors and the families searching for loved ones to find out if this was mass suicide - or mass murder.

Anja Popp goes inside Mexico's illicit exotic pet trade, investigating how owning a lion or tiger has gone from being the indulgence of drug lords to a mainstream obsession. The Mexican state of Sinaloa is home to the notorious Sinaloa cartel. Exotic pets have become a trapping of Mexico's wealthy elite here, in what has become the world's fourth largest illegal trade after drugs, guns and people trafficking. Popp meets Jesus, who built a house in uptown Culiacan around his young tigers Simba and Nala, but as they grew up, they became riskier to manage. Jesus bought his tigers legally, but lax law enforcement means that many people don't. And it becomes clear that pet owners across Mexico have bitten off more than they can chew, with many resorting to extreme medical practices to make their dangerous pets less dangerous. At a pet sanctuary on the outskirts of Culiacan, Popp discovers hundreds of big cats rescued from the illicit market. In Mexico City, she meets a smuggler who claims that corruption is making their job all too easy.

Taiwan is currently living in limbo as the self-ruling island is viewed by China as a renegade province, with Beijing vowing to unify by force if necessary. As Taiwan's autonomy strengthens, the threat of war grows. Krishnan Guru-Murthy follows the democratic nation's civilians, who are learning how to shoot weapons and save lives, as the Island prepares to protect its way of life. These 'preppers' are determined to defend their country against a Chinese invasion.

On the outskirts of Bucharest lies the family home of a woman claiming to be Europe's most powerful witch. It's here that Miheale Minca is planning an ambitious but controversial establishment that she hopes will give women from her minority Roma community a new chance at life. Ashionye Ogene reports on this coven of self-proclaimed witches, determined to open Romania's first ever witch school. She meets one of its first trainees, who is learning the art of rituals and potions that she hopes will win her wealthy clients at home and abroad.

The once-quiet suburbs of Sweden's major cities are the epicentre of a vicious turf war between rival gangs competing for the drug trade. The fierce competition has resulted in a series of tit-for-tat killings with almost daily shootings and bombings. More than 45 people have been shot dead so far this year. Paraic O'Brien steps onto the frontline of Sweden's deadly gang war, as the country becomes one of the most lethal for gun crime in the whole of Europe.

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.

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.

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.

Life on the front line of a bloody drug war in Ecuador, where rival drug cartels have taken over the once peaceful city of Guayaquil in a bid to control lucrative new drug routes to Europe and the United States. The Sinaloa and Nueva Generacion organisations have recruited local gangs into their deadly battle to gain exclusive control of the city ports. The Ecuadorian government is keen to show it is taking on the cartels, so reporter Guillermo Galdos joins police Major Stalin Armijo as his unit patrols the deadly streets of Guayaquil.

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.

Figures suggest nearly one in three women in Pakistan have experienced domestic violence from a man they know personally - with hundreds if not thousands, of women murdered, assaulted or kidnapped each year. The formation of Pakistan's first Gender Protection Unit means that female officers are at the forefront of attempts to reverse the deadly trend. Reporter Fatima Manji follows the work of those who are striving to provide the most vulnerable women with a safe environment to seek justice. Meanwhile, a more conservative counter movement is also finding its voice in a campaign against what they describe as female `vulgarity" that weakens family values.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A report from Guatemala, where the cries of young girls go unheard, and a silent crisis of abuse and child pregnancies is robbing a generation of their youth. 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.

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.

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.

The battle to save Thailand's wild tigers from poachers and smugglers, who have made millions from their sinister and sometimes deadly trade. Reporter Jonathan Miller travels to the last safe haven of the near-extinct Indochinese tiger and meets the rangers and conservationists fighting to protect the endangered tiger. Thai wildlife enforcement agencies are determined to crack down on the illegal trade in both live and dead tigers. However, they are struggling against a lucrative and murky industry that supplies an insatiable demand from Vietnam and China for trophies and quack medicine.

In the city that never sleeps, Krishnan Guru-Murthy explores New York's epidemic of homelessness, made worse by Covid, race inequality and alleged profiteering

The brides and grooms defying the jihadist militants laying siege to the city of Maiduguri in Nigeria, spiritual home of Boko Haram, a terrorist group at the centre of an insurgency that has killed over 36,000 people and displaced more than two million. With Covid lockdowns over and the militants driven out to north-eastern Nigeria, Yousra Elbagir discovers a city determined to reclaim the joy of weddings despite the ongoing risk of kidnappings and attacks. The reporter hears stories of loss and desperation, but also meets the residents determined to repair mental scars and rebuild Maiduguri for its people.

Seyi Rhodes reports on the migrants being beaten back from the European Union by border guards on the notorious Balkan Route. A once-welcoming Europe is now closing its doors, and Serbia has become a bottleneck for thousands of people trying to get through the increasingly hostile route. Rhodes meets beaten and bruised men trying to leave Serbia, and witnesses the families living in government camps too frightened to make the journey. He also hears how the animosity is fuelling a small but growing right-wing political movement.

In Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, Coca-Cola is king. Residents in the state drink on average 821 litres a year, almost 16 litres a week, five times the national average. Reporter Guillermo Galdos travels to San Cristobal to meet one family who sell the beverage, but are experiencing first-hand the consequences of a sugary lifestyle. Blighted by ill-health, they rely on Coca-Cola for an income. Galdos investigates the region's growing diabetes crisis, where the deadly combination of Covid and sugar is sending people to early graves.

The indigenous women going missing without a trace in the wilderness of the United States. As reporter Ayshah Tull discovers, often confusion over jurisdictions between federal, state and tribal authorities can mean that many police investigations become cold cases that are never solved. She follows the enquiries of an indigenous woman-turned-private investigator, known as a Sahnish Scout, who introduces her to a murky world of homelessness, drug addiction and alleged domestic violence in a community where indigenous women are thought to be murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average.

Reporter Minnie Stephenson meets the young female surfers riding the waves of change, seeking new roles in Senegal, a predominantly Muslim state going through changes

Marcel Theroux meets the Japanese schoolgirls seeking pop stardom performing for mostly older male fans. A cultural quirk, or is something more sinister going on in the Japanese music industry?

As Donald Trump fights for re-election, his campaign is particularly targeting white women voters. Filmed prior to the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, Karishma Vyas travels to California to meet the `TradWives", a growing movement of US women who idolise Donald Trump, and have put him at the heart of their anti-feminist, traditional family values as they work to get him re-elected. This is despite the fact that women have often borne the brunt of the President's political and personal barbs.

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.

Filmed before lockdown, Marcel Theroux reports from Thailand on the controversial Dhammakaya movement, which has millions of followers around the world. Dhammakaya claims its a force for good - updating Buddhism for the modern world, but critics say it's a money-obsessed cult. The movement believes in reincarnation and there's a big focus on making donations to pave the way to Nirvana, with offering boxes and cashpoints enabling the faithful to donate. Its founder, Abbot Dhammajayo, is in hiding following allegations that the sect has laundered £25million of stolen money, which he denies.

Channel 4's multi-award-winning foreign affairs strand returns for a new series with 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. Brazil has an image as an open and permissive melting pot, but they reveal that it's actually one of the most dangerous places in the world to be LGBT, with estimates that someone from the community is killed every 16 hours in the country.

Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Masood Khan travel to Pakistan where they meet people - including children - who have fallen foul of the country's strict blasphemy laws, and the lawyers and activists who hunt them down, determined to ensure the death penalty is carried out as a punishment.

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Nick Blakemore visit southern Italy to meet a fearless TV reporter who's taking on Mafia drug-dealers and gangsters. Vittorio Brumotti is world famous as a daredevil cyclist whose death-defying exploits range from jumping from rock to rock in the Grand Canyon to riding the arches of high-altitude bridges. But Brumotti also has another way of getting his adrenaline fix. He's a reporter for one of Italy's top-rating TV shows, working with an undercover team and confronting Mafia drug-dealers and gangsters. 'This is the sharp razor blade that makes you feel alive,' he tells Guru-Murthy.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Roeland Doust travel to Nicaragua, where President Ortega has launched a crackdown on the independent media in a country gripped by civil disruption and economic chaos. The Unreported World team visits the newsroom of the country's oldest newspaper, independent TV studios and a blogger's home, to meet the journalists risking a beating, or worse, to get their stories out - and others who have decided the only way to survive is to flee. Series Ed: Sue Turton;

In Madagascar, reporter Datshiane Navanayagam and director Leslie Knott gain rare access to some of the hundreds of 'forgotten' children held in the country's jails. The team investigate the extraordinary stories of the children accused of petty crimes who can be locked up in an adult prison for up to three years - sometimes without their parents ever being told where they are - before their cases are heard in court.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Roeland Doust travel to Nicaragua, where President Ortega has launched a crackdown on the independent media in a country gripped by civil disruption and economic chaos. The Unreported World team visits the newsroom of the country's oldest newspaper, independent TV studios and a blogger's home, to meet the journalists risking a beating, or worse, to get their stories out - and others who have decided that the only way to survive is to flee.

Unreported World ventures deep into the rainforests of the Republic of the Congo to meet members of the Baka tribe, who are under threat as the forests they've hunted in for generations are turned into a national park. Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Karim Shah investigate claims that heavily-armed 'eco-guards', part-funded by the World Wildlife Fund, are not only preventing the Baka from hunting the food which keeps them alive, but also abusing and intimidating them to the extent that the whole tribe now lives in fear.

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.

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

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.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels to Mali, where continual fighting has severely impacted tourism and threatened the upkeep of significant historic sites

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. Reporter Seyi Rhodes;

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.

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.

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Jamie Welham visit the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean country famed for its pristine beaches and year-round sunshine, but where the UN has identified terrible crimes being committed against teenagers at the hands of sex tourists.

In Bollywood, reporter Sahar Zand and director Alicia Arce investigate how the #MeToo campaign has taken off in India's film industry. They talk to some of the country's top actresses, who are speaking out against assault, sexual harassment and rape. In a country where attitudes to women are changing but where many people still hold conservative views about the role of women and where victims of sexual assault are often regarded as shameful, can the #MeToo movement really gain momentum?

Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Johnny McDevitt join a team of young journalists reporting from inside one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent favelas. For the first time in 30 years, Brazil's president has ordered the army onto the streets of Rio to help the police take on drug gangs that control the city slums, and Unreported World is present as they try to enter the favelas. Getting caught in the crossfire is now a constant danger to the people who live there and the team talks to victims, families, campaigners and politicians about the impact of the crisis on the ordinary people who live in the favela.

Reporter Marcel Theroux is granted rare access to North Korea as the country contemplates reunification. As he explores the country with director Karim Shah and his official minder Mr Ri, the highlight of his trip is the first Mass Games to be held in five years, with 100,000 citizens singing their hearts out for the fatherland in celebration of the country's 70th anniversary. They also tour Pyongyang's stunning metro system, and visit a trade fair and a collective farm, and Theroux gets an officially sanctioned haircut, in a country where the wrong style can get you into trouble with the police. Travelling outside the city, his guides show off the country's first ski resort, and the team witness a changing country with an emerging soft capitalism.

Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Eric McFarland visit Johannesburg to meet miners who are risking their lives to descend deep underground in South Africa's abandoned gold mines, hoping to scratch a dangerous living from whatever ore remains. With the mines controlled by violent gangs and surrounded by lawless settlements, Unreported World's miniature cameras capture the stark reality of life at the end of a gold rush.

Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Jamie Welham travel to El Salvador to reveal what life is like for deportees from the US who are sent back to the gang-ravaged country under President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. President Trump says his government's latest crackdown is aimed at removing criminals and illegal immigrants, in particular members of the notorious Salvadoran-American street gang MS-13. However, official figures show that an increasing number of those who are being deported have no criminal record. There is a growing trend of Salvadorans with deep roots in the US - many of whom arrived in the States as children more than 20 years ago, and some of whom can't speak Spanish - being deported back to a country with which they have little relationship.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Mauricio Gris travel to Mauritania in West Africa to discover how young girls and women are being force fed up to 10,000 calories a day because, when it comes to marriage, big is deemed beautiful. And, as Unreported World reveals, a food shortage has led many to choose an even riskier way to pile on the pounds, as they take chemicals - sometimes including some that are meant for animal consumption - with tragic consequences.

Channel 4's multi-award-winning Unreported World returns for its 33rd series with an eye-opening episode from Peru, exposing the callous and illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon jungle. Animal trafficking is a global trade that's seen an unprecedented spike in recent years, threatening dozens of species with extinction. Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Will West travel to the remote city of Iquitos, where they use undercover filming to reveal the shocking scale and the brazen nature of backstreet dealers and market traders selling protected wildlife for bush meat and the international trade.

Unreported World meets some of Russia's most prolific parents and investigates a wave of intolerance sweeping the country. The resurgent Russian Orthodox Church is at the forefront of a new movement combining religion and nationalism. In Rostov on Don, Marcel Theroux and Jessica Kelly meet an Orthodox family with 18 children who have received medals from the government and cash from some of the country's richest people, who are keen to associate with the values that President Putin is promoting: family, God and country. And in Moscow the team investigates the darker side of this resurgent religion and nationalism: a wave of intolerance. Theroux meets Konstantin Malofeev, a millionaire banker with Kremlin connections and the founder of new television station Tsargrad TV, which broadcasts nationalist material and features anti-abortion and homophobic speakers.

The USA is in the grip of an illiteracy crisis, with nearly one in five adults now unable to read. Reporter Kiki King and director Jessica Kelly visit Detroit, a city where two thirds of high school students struggle with basic reading and where things have got so bad that a group of high school students are suing the state of Michigan for failing to teach them adequately.

Unreported World travels to Lebanon where an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees have fled the war. Reporter Shaunagh Connaire and director Andrew Carter reveal that, despite offers of assistance from the international community, some of those most in need - refugee children with serious medical conditions - are suffering and dying while they wait for help. The UK, other European countries and the US have promised to help the most vulnerable children and resettle them. However, Unreported World discovers that there are limits - on medical grounds - as to who is being accepted on some of these schemes, resulting in some of the sickest children and their families being left stranded.

It's a year since decades of military dictatorship came to an end in Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi began leading a new era of civilian government. But the woman hailed around the world is now being criticised for failing to bring real freedoms to many in the country, and the fighting against various rebel groups has intensified. Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Karim Shah travel to the country to investigate whether its fledgling democracy is already under attack.

Correspondent Seyi Rhodes and director Kate Hardie-Buckley report from the set of the hit South Korean TV show that's made defectors from North Korea into TV stars. Now on My Way to Meet You mixes showbiz entertainment and shocking personal testimony, with South Korean celebrities quizzing the defectors on what life's like across the border. More than 400 defectors have been interviewed on the show. Their stories chart the very latest about life in North Korea under Kim Jong-un and for many South Koreans it's become a major source of information about their northern neighbour. Rhodes meets 26-year-old Eunhee Park, who's become one of the show's stars, and recently arrived 25-year-old Suuyeoung Lee, who's about to make her first appearance on the show. Their stories help lift the lid on what life's currently like in North Korea.

Unreported World reporter Sophie Morgan and director Patrick Wells visit the Samoan islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to investigate an epidemic of obesity. American Samoa has the highest rates of obesity in the world: up to 93% of people are overweight or obese and one in three have diabetes. Samoa is not far behind. The governments of Samoa and American Samoa are trying to tackle the crisis but both remote Islands are still being flooded with unhealthy processed food from abroad, as well as fatty offcuts of meat that are seen as unfit for human consumption in many other countries.

Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Jessica Kelly are in Senegal to explore the national obsession with competitive wrestling. It's one of Senegal's fastest growing sports and offers young men the opportunity to earn big money in a country battling poverty and unemployment. Unreported World meets some of the superstar wrestlers treated like gods and worshipped by entire neighbourhoods, as well as up-and-coming fighters pushing their bodies to the limits in the hope of making enough money to support their families.

China's aspiring musicians are global citizens, inspired by US hip-hop, British punk and the slick routines of Korean pop. But as reporter Marcel Theroux and director Sarah Collinson reveal, they face the special challenges of working under increasing censorship and a deeply authoritarian government.

As the Republic of Ireland prepares for a referendum on whether to alter legislation that makes abortion illegal in almost all circumstances, reporter Shaunagh Connaire and director Kate Hardie-Buckley meet women and families on both sides of the debate, and document the dilemmas medical staff face working under the current laws, in this moving and powerful episode.

In a summer of hurricanes and floods around the world, the incident that has taken most lives has been little reported. On 14 August, torrential rain triggered a huge mudslide that destroyed the small town of Regent on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. Some estimates put the number of dead at over 1000, and the difficulties in recovering bodies means that the true figure may never be known. Reporter Seyi Rhodes travelled to the country just days after the mudslide, witnessing the terrible destruction and spending time with the survivors and rescue teams as he investigated the causes and devastating results of this natural disaster. His report provides a moving, first-hand perspective from the people whose families and homes have been torn apart.

India has long struggled with religious violence, but in recent months the problem has taken a gruesome new form. Across the country, gangs of Hindu men have lynched Muslims who they accuse of killing cows or eating beef. Known as cow vigilantes, in some instances mobs have killed or injured more than 150 people since 2015. India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has made a plea for calm, but 2017 is set to be the worst year for attacks to date. Reporter Mirren Gidda meets a group of vigilantes, unconnected to any killings, who take her on one of their nightly hunts for people who may be harming cows. She also meets Muslim families who've lost loved ones to the mobs, among them a mother whose 16-year-old son was stabbed to death. Her report is an emotional account of the tensions and violence spreading across India, and provides a detailed look at why the vigilantes do what they do.

Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Eric McFarland travel to Tanzania, where 400 women died in witch-hunts last year, twice as many as in the year before. Many others were attacked and ostracised. More people in Tanzania believe in witchcraft than anywhere else in Africa. But some people think that there's more behind recent witchcraft attacks than a fear of the supernatural.

Every year around 300,000 British tourists visit the white sand beaches and turquoise waters of Cancún, the jewel in Mexico's $20 billion tourism industry. But after a spate of brutal murders, the US government has warned travellers about the risks associated with growing violent crime in the city. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Patrick Wells travel to the country to investigate why the murders are taking place and whether Cancún risks going the same way as Acapulco: once the premier tourism resort in Mexico, but now one that virtually no foreigners visit.

Reporter Yousra Elbagir and director Jessica Kelly visit the Mowasah hospital in Jordan where Doctors Without Borders surgeons are offering life-changing surgery to help innocent victims of the wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. It's the only hospital of its kind in the Middle East, and as well as battling their injuries, patients - many of them children or still in their teens - have had to make extraordinary journeys to get there. The Unreported World team follows their stories and investigates the challenges facing a generation who have known only war. Some are victims of Isis, but many are victims of Saudi airstrikes in Yemen and coalition airstrikes in Iraq.

Sophie Morgan reports from Australia where leaked footage of the shocking treatment of young prisoners - most of them Aboriginal teenagers - in a juvenile detention centre in the county's Northern Territory has sparked outcry and a government inquiry. Ninety-four per cent of young people held in detention centres in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, although they make up only a quarter of the state's population. Morgan and director Simon Rawles meet one of the boys at the centre of the scandal, who reveals his harsh treatment behind bars. The team also investigates a hidden issue that makes these young prisoners' situation even more upsetting. Unreported World discovers recent evidence suggesting that as many as two fifths of these young prisoners have an intellectual disability known as foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, linked to their mothers' use of alcohol during pregnancy.

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'.

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.

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.

Abigail Austen is a former Parachute Regiment officer who in 2007 became the first British army officer to change her gender, before serving for four years alongside the US Army in Afghanistan. Now, together with director Will West, she returns to the battlefield at the invitation of her former Afghan colleagues. For this shocking edition of Unreported World, Austen and West have secured unique and extraordinary access to a turning point in the battle against Isis and the Taliban across Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and are the first western television crew to revisit Camp Bastion since the British army withdrew. Following the end of coalition combat operations at the close of 2014, Afghans have been leading the fight against Isis and a resurgent Taliban. In 2015, the Afghan army has lost ten times more soldiers than the British lost in 15 years.

Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Rawles visit America's murder capital - Chicago - where someone is shot every three hours. Black-on-black deaths in the first two months of the year are double what they were last year. The team are guided around the most violent neighbourhoods by volunteer ex-gang members who risk their lives as they try to halt the vicious cycle of violence caused by revenge killings. Chicago is where Obama started his political career, but in his final Presidential year, his backyard is still plagued by violence, and there's less financial assistance to help deal with it. While few people blame Obama for that, many black people here feel there's less hope for the future than there ever has been.

Krishan Guru-Murthy travels to Israel to reveal how tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors are spending their final days living in poverty, struggling to afford basics such as food and heating, despite the German government paying around 90 billion dollars since the end of the World War II in reparations linked to Holocaust survivors across the world. There are about half a million survivors, some 200,000 living in Israel, and compared with the wider population of elderly people, Holocaust survivors are more likely to live in poverty. Many are dependent on help from volunteers, and the suicide rate among survivors is three times that of the wider old-age population. Since shortly after World War II, the German government has paid billions of dollars to an international body, the Claims Conference, which uses the money to help survivors across the world.

Monday 2 May 2016 is the World Anti-Doping Agency deadline for Kenyan athletics to put its house in order. In this Unreported World, which transmits three days before that critical date, Ade Adepitan travels to Kenya to hear allegations of continued doping and corruption. Kenyan long-distance runners often dominate at the Olympics, at World Championships and on the professional marathon circuit. As Adepitan says, 'Running to Kenyans is like football to Brazilians: they absolutely love it.' But Adepitan finds Kenyan athletics in crisis. Since 2012 more than 40 athletes have failed doping tests. The International Association of Athletics Federations, run by Sebastian Coe, has suspended the CEO of Athletics Kenya as a result of allegations - which he denies - that he's requested bribes from athletes to suppress positive doping results. The World Anti-Doping Agency has given Kenya a succession of deadlines to show it's tackling doping, all of which have been missed.

Unreported World visits the Islamic Republic of Iran for the first time, to take a rare look at the reality of life for young Iranians. With nearly half of 18 to 35-year-olds single, the country is in the midst of a marriage crisis. In response, the government has set up an official online matchmaking site. But, as reporter Shaunagh Connaire and director Adam Patterson discover, behind this new website is an army of traditional matchmakers fielding calls from mothers in Tehran who want to find spouses for their sons and daughters. Tehran brims with contradictions. Many young Iranians are shunning marriage and enjoying newly popular ways to meet people, such as Instagram. But it's hard to combine the search for love, commitment to the rules of Islam, and respect for the traditions the older generation think are important. No wonder so many young Iranians find it easier to stay single.

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.

Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Daniel Bogado travel to India for a heart-warming report on new matchmaking schemes and events being set up by people with disabilities to help others like them find a husband or wife. Marriage is a national obsession in India, and Unreported World meets the suitors battling prejudice about their disabilities while also navigating the complexities of caste, religion and parents' expectations.

Among the million-plus refugees in Germany are tens of thousands who've fled Middle Eastern countries where being gay can get you killed. Reporter Shaunagh Connaire and director Rebecca Kenna spend time with three such refugees, and discover that gay refugees in the refugee camps and shelters of Berlin and Cologne face violent attacks and abuse from fellow refugees and migrants, with the hatred and dangers they faced in the Middle East following them to Germany, and with the attacks also feeding into the wider political debate about the challenges of assimilating refugees without compromising German values.

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

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

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.

Reporter Tania Rashid and director Simon Rawles are in South Africa to investigate why there is such a demand for skin bleaching products in the Rainbow Nation. The government has passed strict laws to protect people from creams containing potentially dangerous chemicals which can lead to serious health complications, but as Unreported World reveals, many are still on sale widely and endorsed by celebrities. A recent study found an incredible one in three women in South Africa use skin-bleaching creams, and there are more than 500 different products for sale. In downtown Johannesburg the products are everywhere - despite the ban on any product selling itself as skin-lightening or whitening.

School is supposed to be a sanctuary for children to grow and learn in safety, but millions of girls across Africa are being manipulated, threatened and sexually abused by those who are supposed to be looking after them: their teachers. Reporter Kiki King and director Karim Shah visit Mozambique to investigate the disturbing phenomenon known as 'sex for grades', where teachers force schoolgirls to have sex with them in return for good grades, or their deserved grades. The Mozambican Ministry of Education found that 70% of schoolgirls are either facing this kind of harassment or witnessing it.

Unreported World gaining rare access to the secret houses that shelter women hiding from violent husbands or from families who have tried to kill them for refusing to take part in arranged marriages.

Reporter Kiki King travels to Caracas, the kidnap capital of the world. With exclusive access to the Venezuelan police force's elite Anti-Kidnap Squad, Unreported World follows officers as they fight back against the kidnap gangs with a mixture of brute force and technical ingenuity.

Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Frankie Fathers join some of China's many millions of male lonely hearts on their search for a wife, and meet some of the 'Love Hunters' working to find them an ideal bride.

Reporter Ade Adepitan and director Daniel Bogado join a remarkable group of former patients of Mexico City's mental health institutions as they investigate the horrifi and inhumane conditions endured by thousands of men and women known as The Abandoned.

Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and Director Suzie Samant meet Delhi's remarkable young reporters who run the only newspaper written for and by street children in India.

Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Alex Nott investigate the shocking effects of the recent political unrest on Egypt's ancient wonders and the people who rely on the tourists who visit them.

Reporter Seyi Rhodes and Director Wael Dabbous travel into the jungles of the Central African Republic with a local midwife tending to mothers under threat from poor medical conditions and from the Lord's Resistance Army.

Reporter Evan Williams and Director Laura Warner film undercover in some of Nepal's orphanages where many children with families are being presented as orphans to elicit cash from well-meaning donors.

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.

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.

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.

Saira Shah finds that the oil boom in Colombia has caused an increase in misery and violence for much of the population.

Imran Khan travels around Pakistan to reveal attitudes towards America, Osama Bin Laden and the military campaign and bombings in Afghanistan.

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.

Kim Willsher reports on the impact of the European Union's fishing agreement on fishermen in Mauritania.

Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefiting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.

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.

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.

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.