Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Undercover with the clerics: Iraq’s secret sex trade
The clerics facilitating so-called ‘pleasure marriages’ in return for payment
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Chile’s stolen babies
A Chilean man - adopted at birth - searches for the mother forced to give him up
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The bitter song of the hazelnut
Long hours, little pay, for the workers who pick Turkey's hazelnuts.
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Colombia’s kamikaze cyclists
Precipitous mountain roads, specially-modified bikes, and deadly consequences.
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Marawi: The story of the Philippines’ Lost City
The Philippine city that was besieged by Islamic State supporters
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Lethal Force in Rio’s Favelas
Brazil’s party capital, Rio de Janeiro, is witnessing a killing spree.
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Romania's killer roads
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
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Barbuda: Storms, recovery and ‘land grabs’
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
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Genoa's broken bridge
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
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America's hospital emergency
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes
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The spy in your pocket
How sophisticated spy-ware can be used to track our everyday activities. Who is watching?
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Bitter brew
The harrowing story of rape, murder and violence on a Kenyan tea plantation
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Germany’s climate change frontline
A German forest is disappearing; devoured by a coalmine. Can the trees be saved?
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Denmark's migrant ghettos
Denmark's immigration policy is among the most controversial in western Europe
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Marseille: France’s crumbling city
As its city centre falls apart, Marseille is facing a crisis
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Dying from Mistrust in Ukraine
How mistrust of vaccine has brought a forgotten disease back to Europe
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Morocco’s Hash Trail to Europe
Growers, smugglers and the police who’d stop them
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Turkey’s Political Football
How has rivalry on the football field reflected the political divisions in Turkey?
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Sudan’s white-coated uprising
The role Sudan’s doctors played in defying its ruler Omar al-Bashir
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The undercover migrant
A young man from rural Ghana goes undercover on the migrant trail recording his journey
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Bolivia’s Mennonites, Justice and Renewal
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
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Guyana - bracing for the oil boom
South America’s second poorest nation is about to get very rich
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The Crossing
The British gangs making big money smuggling migrants across the English Channel
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Bangladesh versus Yaba
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a methamphetamine and caffeine mix
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Restoring Brazil's National Treasure
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
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Poland's partisan ghosts
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers
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Nepal fights foreign paedophiles
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal
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Unrest in Ukraine’s little Hungary
Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border with Hungary
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The crypto factor: the winners and losers in virtual investment
Cryptocurrencies have been around for 10 years, so why are many still dogged by scandal?
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Abandoned in the Amazon
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest