Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Cambodia: Returning the gods
Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors
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Mexico: The Yaqui fight back
Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people
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The accordion wars of Lesotho
Why has accordion music led to the killing of so many in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho?
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Myanmar: fighting the might of the junta
A mother and a student have sacrificed everything to join a fight for Myanmar's future
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Russia's unwelcome new exiles
Thousands of Russians fled to Georgia following the invasion of Ukraine
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Dying to hunt in France
A string of fatal accidents have turned hunting into a hot topic in the French elections
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Heartbeats, abortion and Texas
The impact of the most restrictive abortion law in the United States
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The fate of Russia’s soldiers
Tim Whewell follows the story of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine
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‘Tough love’ in San Francisco
A lethal drugs crisis is changing politics in one of America’s most permissive cities
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Subscription scams
The billion dollar subscription scam industry
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Italy’s hidden sins
How Italy has failed to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse
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Ukraine’s frontline bakery revisited
Lucy Ash catches up with a warzone bakery comforting people in an east Ukrainian town
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Hunting the darknet dealers
The high stakes cat and mouse game between police and darknet drug dealers
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Hunting Syria's war criminals
Imagine walking down a street in a European capital and meeting your torturer
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Montenegro’s Chinese road
How a new motorway is fuelling fears about debt, corruption, and submission to Beijing
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Turkey's crazy project
The ambitious new canal project that's dividing opinion in Istanbul
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Peru's left behind children
The hidden pandemic in Peru; the thousands of children who have lost a parent to Covid-19
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The runaway maids of Oman
A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia
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The fake bitcoin mine
The story of a cryptocurrency scam that cost two men in India their life savings
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Poland’s fractured borderlands
A battle of wills between Belarus and the EU leaves a border community divided.
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Sleepless in Seoul
Korea is one of the most tired nations on earth and helping people sleep is big business.
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Rotterdam and the cocaine connection
The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is being overrun by illicit drugs
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Salmon wars
How a bitter fight is playing out in the American west over the future of a fish
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Evia’s inferno
Wildfires on the Greek island of Evia devastated lives and landscapes
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The Ahr Valley flood
In July, the River Ahr in Germany rose, engulfing ancient towns and villages in its path
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Lytton burns
Extreme heat and a raging fire. A small community watches their town go up in flames
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Denmark’s Red Van
A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen
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Russia: The limits of freedom
The story of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondent Sarah Rainsford’s expulsion from Russia
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Pandora Papers: On the trail of dirty money
How money made from the 'world's biggest bribery scandal' ended up in UK property
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Northern Ireland’s Ceasefire Babies
Can a new generation of pro-British Unionists build a more harmonious Northern Ireland?