Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Malaysia’s Runaway Children
Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected?
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Cambodia: Trust Me I’m Not a Doctor
How unlicensed 'doctors' are often the preferred option for basic healthcare in Cambodia
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Robert Jones: Free at last?
How did Robert Jones spend 23 years in jail for crimes another man had been convicted of?
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Albania: Shadows of the Past
Can Albania come to terms with its past - the prisons, concrete bunkers, secret police?
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Greece: No Place to Die
The complex business of dying in Greece where the dead are exhumed after three years
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The Drug Mules of the Andes
Peru's drug 'mules' - youngsters hiking cocaine from the jungle to the highlands
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Norway-Russia: An Arctic Friendship Under Threat
The sacking of a newspaper editor strains an old friendship between Norway and Russia
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Puerto Rico: The Have Nots and the Have Yachts
Why locals are leaving, and super-rich Americans are coming in the opposite direction
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South Sudan: Can the World’s Youngest Country Survive?
Tim Franks asks why the world's youngest nation is falling apart
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The Mayor, the Migrants and France’s Far Right
Lucy Ash reports from the French city of Beziers which has become a Far-Right fortress.
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Fighting Terror with Torture
Does harsh interrogation yield reliable intelligence in the fight against terror?
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Great Expectations: Migrants in Germany
What can migrants arriving in Germany really expect? Can the cities receiving them cope?
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Spain’s Battle for the Bull
Spain's national bullfighting association has warned that the tradition is in crisis
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Inside the Tea Gardens of Assam
The working conditions for tea workers in the tea plantations of Assam
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Yemen’s Forgotten War
The humanitarian crisis and allegations of war crimes in Yemen
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Paraguay’s Schoolgirl Mothers
Why are Paraguayan children so vulnerable to abuse?
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Hodei: The Man Who Vanished
A young man disappears on a night out in Antwerp.Where did he go and how could he vanish?
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Losing Louisiana
Meet the community struggling to survive on one of the world’s fastest eroding coastlines
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The Harragas of Algeria
The Harragas of Algeria - young people who burn their identity papers and head to Europe.
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Cuba on the Move
Will Grant takes a ride on Cuba's bumpy roads where change is in the air.
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China’s Ketamine Fortress
How China has become a top maker and taker underground ketamine.
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A Mediterranean Rescue
The journeys of two African migrants, from their dramatic rescue to settling in Europe
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South Africa Unplugged
Why is Africa’s biggest provider of energy unable to keep the lights on?
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Saving India’s Parsis
India’s Parsi population is declining. Can Parsis be persuaded to make more babies?
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MH17 – A Sister’s Story
A sister’s story of loss - and hope – in the aftermath of the downing of MH17.
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Returning Jihadis: a Danish solution?
Deradicalising young Moslems in Denmark – is the Aarhus Model working?
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Estonia’s Russian Problem
This NATO nation has readied for war – but fears being undermined from within.
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The Mysterious Magnate and Moldova’s Missing Millions
How did a billion dollars mysteriously disappear from banks in Moldova?
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Who Killed Alberto Nisman?
The suspicious death of a prosecutor who accused Argentina's government of a cover-up
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Istanbul: Resisting Erdogan’s Bulldozer
The run-down area of Istanbul standing against Erdogan’s bid for more power