Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Korea's People Smugglers
The shadowy world of the brokers who smuggle people out of North Korea
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The Story of Rafiq Hariri
Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him?
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Colombia's Alzheimer's Family
Does the key to curing Alzheimer's lie with a poor extended family in Medellin, Colombia?
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Antigua beyond Stanford
How people are rebuilding their lives after the collapse of Allen Stanford's empire
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Shaken Babies
How certain can we be about a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome? Linda Pressly reports
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Inside California's Porn Industry
Ed Butler reports on the challenges facing California's porn industry
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Stalin's Toxic Legacy in Georgia
Dangerous levels of arsenic are polluting a community in Georgia - but who knows or cares?
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Calling for Change in Yemen
Has the United States got it wrong in Yemen?
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The Pakistan Connection
Are there any links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists?
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Mission Bin Laden
The story of the operation that led the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan
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Blasphemy - A Matter of Life and Death
Why Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws are a matter of life and death for some people
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Uganda to Iraq: Trafficked into Slavery
The story of the rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq
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Louisiana Deepwater - BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Robyn Bresnahan revisits the fishing families who were affected by the oil spill
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Jos: A city still divided
Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos
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Saudi women speak out
The women pushing for change in Saudi Arabia speak to Sue Lloyd-Roberts in Assignment
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Somaliland - Going it Alone
Somaliland declared itself independent in 1991 and since then it's been going it alone.
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Albania's Munitions Mountain
Neal Razzell travels to Albania, where they're getting rid of an explosive legacy
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Oil City Takoradi
The port city of Takoradi is being transformed by Ghana's new oil industry
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The Imam of Peace
In this edition of Assignment - the story of John Butt, the hippy turned Islamic scholar
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Depicting Detroit
Nina Robinson reports from Detroit on how the media is covering crime there
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Europe's New Politics
Has Europe's mainstream politics quietly veered to the right?
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Europe's New Politics
Assignment investigates the growing influence of populist parties in Northern Europe
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Palliative Care in India
Linda Pressly travels to Kerala to examine the silent revolution in palliative care
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India's Microcredit Meltdown
Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? Assignment investigates
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Baghdad International Airport - Window on Iraq
A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport
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Cyber Bullied
For many teenagers bullying is no longer confined to the playground - it happens online
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The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks
Simon Cox investigates the recent troubles of Wikileaks - the whistle-blowing website.
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Reporting Mindanao
Life as a reporter on the troubled island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
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Mexico's Toughest Cop
Assignment goes on the trail of one of Mexico's toughest cops.
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Magic and Murder in Venezuela
The criminals who pray to the spirits - the Santos Malandros or Holy Thugs - in Venezuela
