Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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The Judgement on Mladic
Mark Urban examines the impact General Mladic had on the lives of thousands of people
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Namibia’s Missing Millions
David Grossman on Namibia’s missing tax millions revealed in the Paradise Papers
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The Lost Children of ISIS
Searching for captive children still lost after the retreat of so-called Islamic State
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Sweden’s Child Migrant Mystery
Why do asylum-seeking children in Sweden withdraw from the world and how do they recover?
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Zanzibar: Spirits and Psychiatry
The mentally-sick in Zanzibar turn to profiteering exorcists for treatment
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Pakistani Media in the UK
Manveen Rana uncovers hate speech and sectarianism in the UK's Urdu media
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Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail
Africa’s migrant trade is among the most lucrative. Can it ever be stopped?
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Panama's Vanishing Islands
Panama’s idyllic islands are threatened by a rising sea, but one community has a plan
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Starting from Scratch in Uganda
How do you make a new home in the African bush with a machete, rope and plastic?
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Bulgaria on a Cliff Edge
What’s it like to live in the country with the fastest-shrinking population in the world?
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Abdi in America
A young Somali refugee tries to live the American dream
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Counting Babies in Niger
Niger has the highest fertility rate in the world and the government wants to change that
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Romania’s Webcam Boom
Inside Romania’s live, web-camming world – the engine of the online sex industry
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Resistance and Repression in Venezuela
Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas
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Last Call from Aleppo
In besieged East Aleppo a terrified mother of three makes one last desperate phone call
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Inside Transgender Pakistan
Pakistan's Hijra, or third gender, community shun a new emerging transgender identity
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The Battle for Raqqa
On the frontline with the female Kurdish fighters liberating Raqqa and themselves
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Myanmar’s Drug Vigilantes
A vigilante drug squad tackles a heroin epidemic in northern Myanmar’s jade mines
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Pakistan’s Campus Lynching
Why did a mob seek out and kill a college “genius�
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Siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery
One night of terror at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery in July 2016
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Get Out of Jail Free
Each year 35,000 New Yorkers end up in jail because they cannot afford bail
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Weapons of Mass Surveillance
How western high tech mass surveillance is being sold to governments in the Middle East
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Recycling Beirut
How Lebanese citizens are learning to clean up their own government’s stinking mess
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Syria’s World Cup Dream
Syria’s dream of reaching next year’s football World Cup survives.
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The Sex Slaves of al-Shabab
The Kenyan women trafficked to Somalia to be sex slaves for al-Shabab
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Banishing America's Bad Hombres
Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the U.S.
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Elephants, Politics and Sri Lanka
Religiously and politically potent, Sri Lankan elephants are killing more and more human
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Coming Out of the Shadows in Kenya
Anne Soy meets the Kenyan activists helping intersex people take their place in society
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Wives Wanted in the Faroe Islands
Men in the Faroe Islands are having to look far beyond their shores for marriage
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Cuba’s Cancer Revolution
In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba’s cancer treatments gets a US drug trial