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Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world.
Episode 14 : India's Missing Children
May. 08,2020
In India a child goes missing every 8 minutes. The children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade - many are never seen again.
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Episode 13 : Venezuela Falling Backwards
May. 01,2020
Oil-rich Venezuela has been in an ever-growing state of crisis since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, and global oil prices crashed.
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Episode 12 : Colombia: Saving Eden
April. 24,2020
Deforestation has skyrocketed in Colombia since the Peace Deal of 2016. Our World joins a team of scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as they go on a mission into virgin tropical rainforest; they hope to discover and save rare plant species, before they are destroyed and vanish forever.
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Episode 11 : Sri Lanka: One Year On
April. 17,2020
On Easter Sunday 2019 eight co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks across Sri Lanka killed over 270 people and injured hundreds more. One year on, Jane Corbin returns to the island and meets three of those whose lives were changed that day and who have set out to help rebuild the Sri Lanka they love.
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Episode 10 : North Korea's Celebrity Defectors
March. 28,2020
Our World follows two North Koreans as they gain fame in front of the camera capitalising on their defector status yet struggle to move on from their past.
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Episode 9 : The Trees that Bleed
March. 20,2020
Umaru Fofana investigates trade in trafficked rosewood worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Episode 8 : Wuhan: Life under Lockdown
March. 13,2020
With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the Chinese city of Wuhan, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown.
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Episode 7 : Blasian Love in South Africa
February. 28,2020
Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's even more challenging.
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Episode 6 : Facing the Bombers
February. 21,2020
Our World gained unprecedented access to enter Indonesia’s prison to witness both Garil and Sarah meeting the bombers who killed their parents.
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Episode 4 : Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
February. 07,2020
Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Reporter Justin Rowlatt travels to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier.
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Episode 3 : The Hunt for Gaza's Lost Treasure
January. 31,2020
In 2017 a group of fishermen found a hoard of precious coins on the sea bed off the coast of Gaza. They were decadrachms from the reign of Alexander the Great- and they were worth a fortune. 3 years on, they have disappeared. So what happened to them, and why are rare coins so hard to trace?
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Episode 2 : Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf?
January. 25,2020
In October 2019, a rising star of Syrian democratic politics, 34-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, was brutally murdered in the Kurdish-governed north east of the country.
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Episode 1 : Colombia: The New Cocaine War
January. 17,2020
Colombia has long been the world's largest producer of cocaine. A historic peace deal in 2016 was meant to reduce the amount of cocaine being produced by offering farmers alternatives to growing coca. But last year the UN estimated that its output was the largest since records began. Our World traveled to the Cauca Valley to find that farmers are now being caught between new criminal gangs with devastating consequences.
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