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Can soap operas around the world help people approach their lives with a more positive attitude? Your World examines the impact in Rwanda, Turkey, Brazil and India.
Datum: 21.04.2012 15:32 •
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Formula 1 returns to Bahrain this weekend. Last year's race was cancelled amid political unrest. Can the race heal wounds and allow the country to move on?
Datum: 19.04.2012 00:00 •
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Nigeria is at a crossroads between chaos and a modern state. Can it become the pioneer for Africa? Mark Doyle investigates.
Datum: 17.04.2012 08:05 •
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'Sugars' addiction in the township of Chatsworth near Durban and the hallucinogenic detox which gives addicts the chance to change their lives.
Datum: 14.04.2012 11:05 •
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Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence that women are being sterilised, often without their knowledge, in an effort by the Uzbek government to control the population.
Datum: 12.04.2012 10:24 •
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Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalising the very young.
Datum: 10.04.2012 08:05 •
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The People's Mujahedin of Iran - terrorists, victims or Iranian government-in-waiting? Owen Bennett-Jones investigates.
Datum: 07.04.2012 18:05 •
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Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for what will be 40 years this month.
Datum: 05.04.2012 08:05 •
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Barbara Plett investigates how the conflict in Syria, and the future of the Assads, might reshape the Middle East.
Datum: 03.04.2012 09:01 •
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Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy at the Round Up Drive In, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Datum: 31.03.2012 11:05 •
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Assignment investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's First Nation communities.
Datum: 29.03.2012 01:00 •
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Military service is mandatory for all Turkish men - they can only escape it if they are ill, disabled or homosexual. But proving homosexuality is a humiliating ordeal. Emre Azizlerli lifts the lid on the only country within the Nato military alliance to discriminate against homosexuals in this way.
Datum: 27.03.2012 10:19 •
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Why secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be the difference between life and death.
Datum: 23.03.2012 14:50 •
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What's it like to be a graduate in Greece contemplating the future? Chloe Hadjimatheou reports for Assignment on the prospects for new graduates in Athens who are at the start of their working lives.
Datum: 22.03.2012 11:16 •
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Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part three he examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis.
Datum: 20.03.2012 14:34 •
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British citizen, Ruhal Ahmed, spent two years in Guantanamo Bay. After his release he returned home to Tipton in the West Midlands without ever being charged with a crime by the British or US governments. During his incarceration Ruhal was repeatedly tortured by his captors. The technique he feared ...
Datum: 16.03.2012 13:59 •
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Divided by conflict. The human stories behind Syria's uprising. Owen Bennett Jones reports for Assignment.
Datum: 15.03.2012 02:00 •
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Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part two, he focuses on the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Datum: 12.03.2012 16:07 •
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Jon Donnison travels to Gaza for Assignment to witness the world's strangest marathon.
Datum: 08.03.2012 02:00 •
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Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part one he focuses on the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Datum: 06.03.2012 10:12 •
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We meet an ordinary Kenyan woman who has done an extraordinary thing and opened her home to 49 orphaned children. She is one of an increasing number of Kenyans who are stepping forward to adopt or care for children in need.
Datum: 05.03.2012 14:54 •
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The BBC's Nina Robinson reports for Assignment from one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest urban slums, or favelas, to see whether drug gangs can be controlled for good.
Datum: 01.03.2012 02:00 •
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A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, the army is still in charge of the country, and there's daily unrest on the streets. What happened to the revolution? Magdi Abdelhadi reports.
Datum: 27.02.2012 14:26 •
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In the occupied Palestinian territories the rate of blindness is as high as ten times the norm in the West. We follow the story of different people whose lives converge through the work of St John Eye Hospital, which has been bringing modern medical care to a community in desperate need, regardless ...
Datum: 24.02.2012 14:19 •
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There's a crisis of culture in Bosnia Herzegovina. The guardians of the nation's heritage - the museums and libraries - are under threat of closure. Assignment's Rebecca Kesby reports from Sarajevo.
Datum: 23.02.2012 02:00 •
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English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In part two, Jennifer Pak visits Hanoi in Vietnam to look at how the country, with a French and Russian colonial history, is now adopting English in preference to Mandarin, de...
Datum: 20.02.2012 16:08 •
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Mair Bosworth looks at conflict between generations in a small family business in London.
Datum: 17.02.2012 15:30 •
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The Syrian city of Homs has seen some of the worst violence in the government's crackdown against opposition activists and armed fighters in the country. BBC reporter Paul Wood and his team managed to slip into Homs as the bombardment of the city was getting underway. In this special programme, Paul...
Datum: 17.02.2012 14:15 •
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The BBC's Hilary Anderson examines what it means to be poor, in the richest country in the world.
Datum: 16.02.2012 02:00 •
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English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In the first of two documentary programmes Jennifer Pak visits Malaysia and Singapore, two countries where colonial ties to the English language are loosening.
Datum: 14.02.2012 09:05 •
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Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers as he reigns over the great Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival.
Datum: 11.02.2012 19:05 •
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Rob Walker investigates what?s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid to the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Datum: 09.02.2012 02:00 •
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To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon explores India's love affair with Dickens.
Datum: 07.02.2012 09:05 •
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In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out of his weird and brilliant imagination, we see modern London as he might have done, travelling through the city's streets at night to crack dens and strip-joints as the police sirens wail. We meet characters from hi...
Datum: 03.02.2012 15:04 •
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Undercover in Damascus for Assignment. Tim Whewell enters the dangerous world of the Syrian opposition to find out how strong they are ? and what they really want.
Datum: 02.02.2012 02:00 •
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Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
Datum: 27.01.2012 12:32 •
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Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for its so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) workers but as James Fletcher reports in Assignment, it can come at a cost.
Datum: 26.01.2012 02:00 •
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The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
Datum: 24.01.2012 09:05 •
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Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
Datum: 20.01.2012 16:26 •
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Assignment goes inside the fast and furious world of North American ice hockey. Alex Capstick reports.
Datum: 19.01.2012 01:00 •
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The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
Datum: 17.01.2012 09:05 •
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Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild - Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command - as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton.
Datum: 13.01.2012 10:44 •
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For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid?
Datum: 12.01.2012 05:00 •
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Farayi Mungazi looks at the role of sport in shaping the country's national identity and asks whether sporting success will always be part of Australia's soft power.
Datum: 10.01.2012 12:23 •
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Women were at the forefront of the revolution in Egypt. Hanan Razek discovers why many are disappointed and angry at the Egyptian revolution's failures.
Datum: 06.01.2012 15:02 •
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Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti. Why, despite the vast effort and resources that flowed after the earthquake two years ago, are people still living in tents without basic amenities?
Datum: 05.01.2012 09:05 •
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Farayi Mungazi explores the power of basketball to create a national identity in newly independent South Sudan, as well as give its people a sense of dignity and pride.
Datum: 03.01.2012 10:32 •
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John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Datum: 31.12.2011 19:05 •
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China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
Datum: 29.12.2011 05:00 •
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John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Datum: 24.12.2011 19:05 •
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Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?
Datum: 23.12.2011 16:31 •
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The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and through their songs projected a bright, happy dream of the Soviet Union to the furthest reaches of the Red Empire. Then, in 1991, the world they had sung about ceased to exist and the Soviet Union passed into memo...
Datum: 23.12.2011 16:11 •
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France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world. But in recent years, many critics have argued that French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of food-lovers hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Robyn Bres...
Datum: 22.12.2011 00:05 •
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The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
Datum: 21.12.2011 16:17 •
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The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
Datum: 21.12.2011 14:31 •
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Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.
Datum: 20.12.2011 09:05 •
Größe: 10.7 MB
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
Datum: 20.12.2011 08:05 •
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Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
Datum: 17.12.2011 19:05 •
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A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it.
Datum: 15.12.2011 05:00 •
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Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
Datum: 09.12.2011 15:25 •
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In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are being exploited for the owners' benefit.
Datum: 08.12.2011 05:00 •
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Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Datum: 06.12.2011 09:05 •
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Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the eyes of people who battled their own fears to step out of Gaddafi's dark shadow. Rana Jawad became the BBC website's Tripoli Witness and took up knitting and baking to cope with the strains of living in hiding and ...
Datum: 03.12.2011 19:05 •
Größe: 22.9 MB
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.
Datum: 02.12.2011 16:35 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering reports for Assignment.
Datum: 01.12.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 10.9 MB
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Datum: 29.11.2011 09:05 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy access to condoms often choose not to use them. Paul Bakibinga sets out to discover why.
Datum: 26.11.2011 19:05 •
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Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek.
Datum: 26.11.2011 10:32 •
Größe: 12.4 MB
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope of encouraging the young to turn away from militant Islam. Lucy Ash reports.
Datum: 24.11.2011 05:00 •
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Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism.
Datum: 22.11.2011 10:05 •
Größe: 23 MB
The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he was used as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
Datum: 18.11.2011 13:43 •
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Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie?Did he invent a new way of doing business?
Datum: 17.11.2011 12:49 •
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Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle.
Datum: 17.11.2011 05:00 •
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Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.
Datum: 11.11.2011 15:25 •
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Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.
Datum: 08.11.2011 09:00 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues to change long held perceptions and alliances.
Datum: 08.11.2011 05:00 •
Größe: 10.6 MB
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.
Datum: 05.11.2011 19:00 •
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Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.
Datum: 03.11.2011 10:05 •
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Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.
Datum: 01.11.2011 10:05 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power.
Datum: 29.10.2011 19:05 •
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Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music.
Datum: 29.10.2011 14:05 •
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For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country.
Datum: 27.10.2011 11:39 •
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Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Datum: 25.10.2011 09:00 •
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Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville.
Datum: 24.10.2011 08:05 •
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Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan.
Datum: 21.10.2011 13:40 •
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Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
Datum: 20.10.2011 04:00 •
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Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis.
Datum: 18.10.2011 09:00 •
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Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting.
Datum: 14.10.2011 13:31 •
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In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over the horizon. But what exactly is Hezbollah and why do people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structure of the Shia movement that is so difficult to def...
Datum: 13.10.2011 04:00 •
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The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Datum: 11.10.2011 09:00 •
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Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, often, a quiet dignit...
Datum: 07.10.2011 11:42 •
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Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels to Wales in the United Kingdom to talk to members of an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade.
Datum: 06.10.2011 12:30 •
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The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Datum: 04.10.2011 08:55 •
Größe: 10.6 MB
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part two, we hear the story of 84 year-old Sybil Phoenix, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for her involvement in community relations - making her...
Datum: 30.09.2011 14:54 •
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Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and they've suffered the humiliation of being banned from the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them.
Datum: 29.09.2011 04:00 •
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The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Datum: 27.09.2011 09:00 •
Größe: 10.7 MB
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part one we hear the story of Yusef Shakur, who in 1992 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to turn his life around.
Datum: 23.09.2011 14:03 •
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Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment.
Datum: 22.09.2011 04:00 •
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Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage.
Datum: 20.09.2011 09:00 •
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How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country recovering from the dark years of Pol Pot's rule.
Datum: 16.09.2011 10:29 •
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Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa.
Datum: 15.09.2011 04:00 •
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Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage.
Datum: 13.09.2011 09:00 •
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eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
Datum: 10.09.2011 13:05 •
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As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler travels to Athens for Assignment to investigate the so-called Indignants - the popular protest movement gathering pace across the country.
Datum: 08.09.2011 04:00 •
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The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
Datum: 06.09.2011 09:00 •
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Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
Datum: 03.09.2011 13:05 •
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Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi. He vanished from a train in Ukraine in February and turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later. Is he really the brains behind Hamas' missile programme, as Israel claims?
Datum: 01.09.2011 04:00 •
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The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
Datum: 30.08.2011 09:00 •
Größe: 10.8 MB
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
Datum: 27.08.2011 13:05 •
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Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion.
After a six month uprising, rebel forces have swept into the capital Tripoli. The Leader Colonel Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power, has been forced from power. James Reynolds reports how this happened and what were the key turning points in ...
Datum: 25.08.2011 08:05 •
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On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences.
Datum: 23.08.2011 09:00 •
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Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience. Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. John Blades, who has a major disability himself, takes a look at the importanc...
Datum: 20.08.2011 13:05 •
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Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico ? despite the dangers of kidnap by the notorious Zetas gang.
Datum: 18.08.2011 08:05 •
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On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences.
Datum: 16.08.2011 09:00 •
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Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal follows the story of Ashif Jaffer who wants to fulfil his dream for a university education and the degree that goes with it.
Datum: 13.08.2011 13:05 •
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Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? Assignment goes into Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields and uncovers evidence of torture camps and wide-scale killings.
Datum: 11.08.2011 04:00 •
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BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Datum: 09.08.2011 08:05 •
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Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for cheap domestic labour. She finds that children are filling the gaps, with evidence of trafficking and youngsters being set to work in households, where they are open to abuse with little hope of ever going to school...
Datum: 04.08.2011 04:00 •
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989. Ayatollah Khamenei is the most powerful man in Iran, though one of the country's least scrutinised politicians. So who is this man? And how has he consolidated the Revolution? The BBC's Iran correspondent, James Reyn...
Datum: 02.08.2011 08:05 •
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Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full responsibility back to Afghans. Lyse Doucet, who's been covering Afghanistan for more than 20 years, travels around Afghanistan to meet the Afghans in charge.
Datum: 28.07.2011 04:00 •
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To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. John Ware charts the history of a decade of fighting and looks at when the conflict may end.
Datum: 26.07.2011 13:05 •
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A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth Sense, how bored spirits play havoc with her love life, and why grocery shopping is a challenge.
Datum: 23.07.2011 13:05 •
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Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas. Rob Walker goes on the trail of the man who for 50 years has opposed Cuba?s Fidel Castro and who leaves in his wake intrigue, alleged terrorist plots and assassination attempts.
Datum: 21.07.2011 04:00 •
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BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. In part two, Richard compares how the world's nations are having very different approaches to the nuclear landscape in the wake of Fukushima.
Datum: 19.07.2011 08:05 •
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Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course of nine months, we follow two women, who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility.
Datum: 16.07.2011 13:05 •
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In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has gained rare "behind-the-scenes" access to one of Hillary Clinton's recent overseas trips. Join her on "special air mission 883" as it heads from the U.S. to the Middle East and Africa.
Datum: 14.07.2011 04:34 •
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BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. Did the first atomic nations develop the best and safest technologies possible, or have they left the world with a ticking bomb?
Datum: 12.07.2011 08:05 •
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Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia.
Datum: 10.07.2011 09:05 •
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Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success. Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers who smuggle people along the illegal overland route known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment Lucy Williamson m...
Datum: 07.07.2011 04:30 •
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BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a resurgent threat from violent right-wing groups.
Datum: 05.07.2011 08:05 •
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Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia.
Datum: 03.07.2011 08:05 •
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Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports on the life of the man they once called Mr Lebanon.
Datum: 30.06.2011 04:00 •
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BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American Muslims are becoming radicalised, and turning their sights on their own country.
Datum: 28.06.2011 09:13 •
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This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took a walk down his favourite street to find out how Russians view the past and to hear their hopes for the future.
Datum: 25.06.2011 13:05 •
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An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide. Bill Law reports.
Datum: 23.06.2011 09:20 •
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Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports.
Datum: 21.06.2011 08:05 •
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Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor.
Datum: 18.06.2011 13:05 •
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Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their lives two years on from the collapse of Allen Stanford's business empire.
Datum: 16.06.2011 04:29 •
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Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports.
Datum: 14.06.2011 08:05 •
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Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion.
Datum: 11.06.2011 13:05 •
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Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results in death - was once believed to be virtually a medical diagnosis of murder. But as Linda Pressley reports from the United States for Assignment, there's now growing disquiet about miscarriages of justice after suc...
Datum: 09.06.2011 04:00 •
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Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whol...
Datum: 07.06.2011 08:00 •
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Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion.
Datum: 04.06.2011 13:05 •
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California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies. But, as Ed Butler reports for Assignment, the billion dollar industry is in trouble. The programme begins on the film set of a porn movie in Los Angeles.
Datum: 02.06.2011 04:00 •
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David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing body.
Datum: 01.06.2011 19:32 •
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Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whol...
Datum: 31.05.2011 08:05 •
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The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. Does she have a choice?
Datum: 28.05.2011 13:05 •
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Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its industries still lives on. For Assignment Angus Crawford travels to a remote valley in Georgia where research has shown that there are dangerous levels of arsenic in the soil and water and yet the local community remains ...
Datum: 26.05.2011 04:05 •
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Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whol...
Datum: 24.05.2011 08:05 •
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For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned that if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. For Assignment, Natalia Antelava reports from ...
Datum: 19.05.2011 11:00 •
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In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and asse...
Datum: 17.05.2011 08:05 •
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The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted man was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists.
D...
Datum: 12.05.2011 08:00 •
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In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades.
Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and ass...
Datum: 10.05.2011 09:00 •
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Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. How does the city compare to neighbouring Doha?
Datum: 07.05.2011 13:00 •
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On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. They succeeded and America's most exasperatin...
Datum: 05.05.2011 16:00 •
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On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
Datum: 03.05.2011 08:05 •
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Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth.
Datum: 30.04.2011 13:05 •
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Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost silenced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the laws are frequently being used to target innocent pe...
Datum: 28.04.2011 05:00 •
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On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
Datum: 26.04.2011 10:14 •
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On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many talented public servants and dignitaries.
For Pa...
Datum: 23.04.2011 13:05 •
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Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes ? a Ugandan s...
Datum: 21.04.2011 06:00 •
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Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Smith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough.
Datum: 19.04.2011 08:00 •
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One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by loss of its President and other dignitaries.
Datum: 16.04.2011 13:05 •
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A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fe...
Datum: 14.04.2011 08:05 •
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From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddings.
Datum: 12.04.2011 08:00 •
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In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to do, are at risk of getting involved with gangs.
The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affected.
Datum: 09.04.2011 13:05 •
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Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Christians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence.
Datum: 07.04.2011 08:00 •
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A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution.
Datum: 05.04.2011 08:00 •
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Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olympic Games.
It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a deprived part of the inner city, in dense blocks of flat...
Datum: 02.04.2011 12:05 •
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In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change.
Datum: 31.03.2011 10:59 •
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A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part one looks at Sweden - home to one of the world's oldest and yet most modernised courts. Why is it that opposition to keeping the king as head of state is growing?
Datum: 29.03.2011 08:05 •
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"It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then reassembled through the lens of a pen and verse." The South African poet Lebo Mashile contemplates the role of poetry in her country.
Datum: 25.03.2011 15:05 •
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It?s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the capital, where she finds many people happy to be going it alone.
Datum: 23.03.2011 15:50 •
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In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance for men in Afghanistan at weddings and traditional gatherings. But the tradition exposes the boys to sexual abuse.
Datum: 23.03.2011 11:20 •
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Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest country to turn away from marriage.
Datum: 21.03.2011 14:55 •
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"I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry." Russian poet and dissident, Irina Ratushinskaya contemplates the role of poetry in her country.
Datum: 18.03.2011 13:33 •
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Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten potential invaders. Albania now wants to get rid of the old ammunition -- and quickly. It's even willing to give it away. For Assignment Neal Razzell meets those trying to shift what the government calls "the heav...
Datum: 17.03.2011 08:00 •
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Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and some convicted and sentenced. Frances Fyfield, looks at these extraordinary cases of animals in court.
Datum: 15.03.2011 15:13 •
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Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy Williamson reports from Nepal - currently experiencing one of the fastest-ever shifts from extended families to nuclear ones. Who are the winners and losers in that process?
Datum: 14.03.2011 10:15 •
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From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?
Datum: 11.03.2011 09:05 •
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What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil industry worth billions of dollars? For Assignment Rob Walker reports from port city of Takoradi on the impact oil is having.
Datum: 10.03.2011 08:00 •
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The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation for stability to the point of authoritarianism and censorship. What happens when journalists challenge the status quo?
Datum: 09.03.2011 10:05 •
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Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a peaceful resolution? The BBC's Rupa Jha investigates and asks if special powers granted to the military are prolonging the problems.
Datum: 07.03.2011 09:00 •
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From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?
Datum: 04.03.2011 10:58 •
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John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and hedonism, he discovered a tribal culture that transfixed him. Now a trained Imam and Muslim, he has dedicated his life to spreading peace in South Asia. But as reporter Nadene Ghouri discovers in this week's Assignment...
Datum: 03.03.2011 15:00 •
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In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the demonstrations by activists - redshirt or yellowshirt - that occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum?
Datum: 02.03.2011 10:04 •
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How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? The BBC's Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
Datum: 28.02.2011 09:00 •
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Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite all use a deceptively simple but hypnotic beat from the heart of Africa in some of their biggest hits. But what is it? Music journalist Rita Ray journeys to Ghana to find out.
Datum: 25.02.2011 09:05 •
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Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while conducting a raid filmed for a reality TV programme. She finds a city asking deep questions about the way the media cover crime.
Datum: 23.02.2011 23:59 •
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In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part two he goes to Cambodia. How is the country's fledging media dealing with a nation still scarred by widespread murder and violence?
Datum: 23.02.2011 09:00 •
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After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its damaged reputation? The Spy Cruise has been set up for the public to sail around the Caribbean with ex-CIA chiefs and discuss global security - but who really gains?
Datum: 21.02.2011 11:00 •
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The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final days of Mubarak's 30 year rule and talks to Egyptians about their hopes for the future.
Datum: 18.02.2011 11:00 •
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In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and Germany to investigate the rise of populist politics there.
Datum: 17.02.2011 09:00 •
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In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part one he goes to Indonesia. How is independent media faring since the fall of Suharto's dictatorship?
Datum: 16.02.2011 11:00 •
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This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new strategies to import the latest industrial technologies
But China's leaders want Chinese ideas and innovation to drive their economy.
This programme follows people at the leading edge of that effort, in the art...
Datum: 14.02.2011 09:05 •
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"Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo." What are the world's most popular number rhymes and how do they overlap between different cultures? Kim Normanton looks at the different approaches to counting around the world.
Datum: 11.02.2011 09:00 •
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Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the balance of power to introduce harsh measures. And th...
Datum: 10.02.2011 09:06 •
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Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day.
Datum: 09.02.2011 09:47 •
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Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies.
This programme examines China's leaders attempts to manage growing conflicts and calls for political change - not for multi-party democracy, as some in the Wes...
Datum: 07.02.2011 09:05 •
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Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former Chief Weapons Inspector who some want to see as the next president of Egypt. Could he now unite a fragmented opposition and ride the wave of protest to the very top?
Datum: 04.02.2011 09:05 •
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As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on palliative care - medical provision for those nearing the end of life.
Datum: 03.02.2011 09:09 •
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Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day.
Datum: 02.02.2011 09:05 •
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As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic, state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology.
Datum: 31.01.2011 11:04 •
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Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws, the best man and congregation were fake? Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing 'rent a friend' service and why social standing is driving excluded people to extremes.
Datum: 28.01.2011 11:53 •
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Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris travels to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate.
Datum: 27.01.2011 09:06 •
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Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe? Joseph Rodriguez goes to a region of Sweden that is symbolic of the divide between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes.
Datum: 26.01.2011 09:22 •
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This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence. Michael Robinson, who documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns to assess the prospects and problems of the unrelenting shift of power from West to East.
Datum: 24.01.2011 09:05 •
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"My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in such a morass / to avoid prejudice and bigotry/ to keep your hands clean." Through words and verse, Afghan civilians reflect on decades of war. Listen to their poetry.
Datum: 21.01.2011 09:00 •
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A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse talks to the travellers and workers who pass through Baghdad international airport each day.
Datum: 20.01.2011 11:45 •
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What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the subject of their pictures? Photographer Dalia Khamissy has been documenting the story of the thousands of people who disappeared during Lebanon's civil war.
Datum: 19.01.2011 09:05 •
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In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And...
Datum: 17.01.2011 10:14 •
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As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which by allowing people from opposite sides of the world to contribute, has grown into one of the most popular websites on the internet.
What does the future hold for the site? Will it simply be replaced by another w...
Datum: 14.01.2011 13:23 •
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For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online lives in a virtual world, where they face the very real risk of being cyber bullied.
Datum: 13.01.2011 09:06 •
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Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the sounds of his surroundings, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about the city of Istanbul?
Datum: 12.01.2011 10:05 •
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In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And...
Datum: 10.01.2011 10:56 •
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The world?s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may offer the world a sustainable model.
Datum: 06.01.2011 23:06 •
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The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition to Sweden. Despite this he remains defiant that his whistle blowing website will continue to publish sensitive material. Simon Cox investigates the rise of Wikileaks and asks if it can recover from its recent tr...
Datum: 06.01.2011 11:04 •
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Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to the sounds of a city, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about San Franciso?
Datum: 05.01.2011 10:55 •
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In this two-part series, the BBC?s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil?s investment fever and asks if the massive state-led development programmes during Lula?s reign have put the country in the global economic super league.
Datum: 03.01.2011 09:00 •
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In the final part of this series, Sir John Scarlett, the former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service talks about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6's role in the run up to the war in Iraq.
Datum: 31.12.2010 09:30 •
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The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report from. More than thirty journalists were killed there in a single incident at the end of 2009. Kate McGeowan travels to the troubled southern island of Mindanao to meet one of the reporters whose job it is to cover the daily...
Datum: 30.12.2010 09:06 •
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How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Louise Hidalgo looks at the exponential growth - and the cost - of the yoghurt industry.
Datum: 29.12.2010 09:05 •
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In this two-part series, the BBC?s Paulo Cabral travels to the two places that marked Lula?s life ? the poor region in the northeast where the president was born, and the industrial suburb of Sao Paulo where he made his reputation. What has been the legacy of one of the most popular politicians in B...
Datum: 27.12.2010 09:00 •
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The second part in this series describes what went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
Former MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side.
Datum: 24.12.2010 09:30 •
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For Assignment Rob Walker travels to the city of Tijuana on Mexico's border with the United States on the trail of one of Mexico's most controversial law enforcement officers.
Datum: 23.12.2010 11:00 •
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How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Louise Hidalgo looks at the exponential growth - and the cost - of the breakfast cereal industry.
Datum: 22.12.2010 09:30 •
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Many Turks have lost faith in their judges, who are seen as out of touch and too close to Ataturk's secular and military state. What will determine this struggle for power between the government and judges?
Datum: 20.12.2010 10:27 •
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Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, marks its centenary this year and BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera talks to senior intelligence figures as well as their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of espionage.
Datum: 17.12.2010 11:59 •
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How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Louise Hidalgo looks at the exponential growth - and the costs - of the bottled water industry.
Datum: 15.12.2010 11:47 •
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Why are judges so important in today's world and how do the courts earn and use their power? In part one Laura Lynch hears from judges operating in Russia and Colombia ? what does it take for judges to stand up to pressure?
Datum: 13.12.2010 09:05 •
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Does Somalia deserve its bad reputation for corruption? In the second of a two-part series, Pascale Harter asks if, after nearly two decades of civil war, is it even fair to talk about corruption in Somalia? Or has it now begun to drive the conflict?
Datum: 10.12.2010 09:00 •
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Does Sweden live up to its squeaky clean image? In the first of a two-part series looking at perceptions of state corruption, Pascale Harter investigates whether Sweden - consistently ranked among the least corrupt countries in the world - is quite as it seems.
Datum: 09.12.2010 09:00 •
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"We like our crooks, our fast Eddies, and we find them entertaining." Steve Edwards takes to the mean streets of his hometown Chicago - asking why the Windy City is such a hotbed of corruption.
Datum: 08.12.2010 11:34 •
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In this exclusive two-part documentary, Mike Costello travels to the Philippines to meet boxing legend, record-breaking eight times world champion, politician and national hero, Manny Pacquiao.
Datum: 03.12.2010 09:36 •
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For Assignment Angus Stickler tracks how money has gone astray across the 27 member states of the European Union and asks why funding continues in regions with proven records of mismanagement and fraud.
Datum: 02.12.2010 09:06 •
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You're standing on a footbridge next to a very big man. The only way you can stop an out-of-control train is to push him over the footbridge onto the track. His bulk will stop the train and save lives. Will you push him? Stephen Evans explores this moral dilemma to discover what sort of ethical crea...
Datum: 29.11.2010 11:50 •
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In this exclusive two-part documentary, Mike Costello travels to the Philippines to meet boxing legend, record-breaking eight times world champion, politician and national hero, Manny Pacquiao.
Datum: 26.11.2010 09:44 •
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More than six million people in Pakistan now face the start of winter without adequate shelter because their homes were destroyed in the devastating floods in August. Jill McGivering, who reported on the floods at the time, returns to one of the worst hit areas to investigate claims that corruption ...
Datum: 25.11.2010 09:06 •
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"Lucky them, they didn't have to fight the battles we fought." Michael Goldfarb traces the history of protest through the footsteps of those who have campaigned for and celebrated the rights of the gay community in Britain and across the globe.
Datum: 24.11.2010 11:49 •
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"There are no words to describe when you lose your child, especially one who was full of life a talented girl that liked dancing." Sheena McDonald travels to Costa Rica to find out if new legislation to tackle drink-driving is working and reducing the number of road deaths.
Datum: 22.11.2010 11:07 •
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Pioneering French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau brought marine life to cinema and television screens for the first time.
Bridget Nicholls speaks to Costeau's friends, family and colleagues as they look back on the life of this difficult but inspiring man in the centennial of his birth.
Datum: 19.11.2010 09:30 •
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Almost every day in the Russian republic of Dagestan there are reports of Islamist insurgents assassinating police officers and local officials. And there are regular clashes between extremists and the security forces across the republic. It's causing Moscow deep concern and they blame 'outside forc...
Datum: 18.11.2010 10:45 •
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character." Michael Goldfarb traces the history of the march through the footsteps of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Mao Zedong.
Datum: 17.11.2010 09:53 •
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"It's a woman with a tiny baby and luggage on the back of a motorbike with no helmet." Sheena McDonald travels to Kenya to find out what the government is doing to improve on road safety and reduce the number of traffic accidents.
Datum: 15.11.2010 09:58 •
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Completed by the poet Ferdowsi in 1010 AD, the Shahnameh is widely regarded as a masterpiece of world literature.
It is of central importance to Iranian culture and self-identity and has inspired some of the world's most exquisite manuscripts.
Narguess Farzad dives into the text to explore the st...
Datum: 12.11.2010 09:30 •
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For Assignment Thomas Fessy investigates allegations that a senior Congolese general profited from the illegal takeover of a gold mine.
Datum: 11.11.2010 09:06 •
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Ali Abbas became an icon of the Iraq War when images of him with his arms amputated were beamed around the world. Seven years after an American rocket attack destroyed his home and killed 16 members of his family, Ali returns to Baghdad. Will he give in to the pressure of getting married?
Datum: 10.11.2010 09:05 •
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"With the city being built here on our doorstep, I can look after the children and earn some money." Carrie Gracie returns to China to see how locals are embracing and benefiting from city life.
Datum: 08.11.2010 10:54 •
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?If you say bye bye to that fountain of life you may as well say bye bye to my heritage.? How will a proposed copper mine affect Alaska?s main industry of salmon? The BBC?s Nick Rankin reports on the development opportunities ? as well as environmental and social concerns ? of this controversial pro...
Datum: 05.11.2010 10:09 •
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The people of Burma go to the polls on November 7th for the first time in 20 years. In 1990, an overwhelming majority voted for pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her National League for Democracy. The Generals running the country ignored the result and have imposed strict military rule eve...
Datum: 04.11.2010 11:22 •
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Seven years after an American rocket attack destroyed his home, killed 16 members of his family, and left him without arms, Ali Abbas returns to Baghdad. Now 19 years old and with loved ones looking to arrange a marriage it?s time to become an adult but, with his childhood stolen, adapting is a stru...
Datum: 03.11.2010 10:52 •
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"We took the decision to build a new city ten years ago. We had four objectives: civilised, hygienic and scenic - with a focus on eco-tourism." Carrie Gracie returns to China to see how 21st Century urbanisation is progressing.
Datum: 01.11.2010 14:17 •
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Nick Rankin reports from Alaska during the greatest wild salmon run in the world and joins commercial and subsistence fishermen who live off this natural resource.
Datum: 29.10.2010 07:30 •
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As Ireland faces up to one of Europe's most punishing financial crises, Ed Butler looks at the growing anger amongst its citizens.
Datum: 28.10.2010 08:06 •
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Travel writer Polly Evans goes to Guantanamo, Cuba, and talks to local people about the town where they live. How do they feel about it becoming synonymous with the prison camp that Amnesty International calls "the gulag of our times"?
Datum: 27.10.2010 09:05 •
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The BBC's Central Asia correspondent, Rayhan Demytrie, explores the relationship between drugs and politics in Kyrgyzstan.
Datum: 21.10.2010 09:05 •
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Piers Scholfield reports from the Atacama desert in Chile on one family's long wait for the rescue of the Chilean miners.
Datum: 20.10.2010 10:30 •
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Organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games argue that its legacy will be felt for generations to come. With the prospects for jobs, will regeneration affect those who need it most?
Datum: 20.10.2010 09:05 •
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It is two years to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games and the residents of a council estate nearby have been watching the venues take shape for a while now.
One of the pledges when London won the 2012 bid to host the Olympics was that the East End - the socially deprived area of the city - wo...
Datum: 13.10.2010 14:18 •
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"I find it difficult to recognize famous people because they have very symmetrical faces. I only know Madonna by her eyeliner." How do our brains work in everyday life? In the last of a four-part series examining the mind?s complexities, Professor Barry Smith examines the link between the brain, mem...
Datum: 11.10.2010 08:00 •
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In the midst of a financial crisis, Maywood, a small city near Los Angeles, took the radical step of firing all city employees. Policing in Maywood is now handled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and many of the other city's services in operation are being handled by the nearby city of...
Datum: 08.10.2010 08:05 •
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It?s halfway through the European ?Decade of Roma inclusion? but millions of euros in EU funding have failed to make a dent in Roma exclusion. Nick Thorpe travels to Romania, home to an estimated 2 million Roma ? 10 % of the population - to find out why.
Datum: 07.10.2010 08:06 •
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Can oral history challenge or alter the official past of a nation? History is often said to be written by the victors, but oral history has been strongly associated with the voices of the 'ordinary' citizens. Be it war, revolution or dictatorship, these accounts often offer different versions of the...
Datum: 06.10.2010 08:42 •
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"I have to choose between the fruit salad and the cream cake. Rationally, I know what I should do. I should choose the fruit salad. But will I?" How do our brains work in everyday life? In the third of a four-part series examining the mind?s complexities, Professor Barry Smith looks at how the brain...
Datum: 04.10.2010 08:26 •
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As a 23-year-old, young British colonial officer John Smith was put in charge of the vast area of Kano in Nigeria.
In his position, he represented the might of the British Empire.
Now 82, Smith returns to see how the country has fared after 50 years of freedom and to renew a remarkable friendshi...
Datum: 01.10.2010 10:31 •
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There's a tough marriage market in the US for single, college educated, black women. For Assignment Nina Robinson travels to New York to find out why.
Datum: 30.09.2010 08:06 •
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Can oral history challenge or alter the official past of a nation? History is often said to be written by the victors, but oral history has been strongly associated with the voices of the 'ordinary' citizens. Be it war, revolution or dictatorship, these accounts often offer different versions of the...
Datum: 29.09.2010 09:46 •
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?When I wake up in the morning I think I?ve still got two normal arms and I have to look to see which one is not there.? How do our brains work in everyday life? In the second of a four-part series examining the mind?s complexities, Professor Barry Smith explores the link between the body and the br...
Datum: 27.09.2010 08:40 •
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Writer Cathy FitzGerald explores the past, present, and very real future of the magic carpet and wonders what our desire to defy gravity tells us about ourselves.
We dream of flying and often long to fly unaided - is that part of it?
Datum: 24.09.2010 08:30 •
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With anti-Islamic sentiment on the rise in America, Claire Bolderson reports for Assignment on what it is like to be a young American muslim in America and explores what is being done to stop them becoming alienated.
Datum: 23.09.2010 08:06 •
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How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
Datum: 22.09.2010 09:05 •
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"Why do we like and dislike certain foods? The most important thing in the tasting process is not the tongue, nose or ears ? it?s the brain." Barry Smith explores how the brain makes us capable of language, thinking and feeling.
Datum: 20.09.2010 14:48 •
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Chess fanatic Simon Terrington goes on a wide ranging journey and asks the question, why does chess still have a place in the 21st century.
Datum: 17.09.2010 09:01 •
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Angus Crawford reports from Senegal for Assignment on what the government there is doing to protect thousands of schoolboys whose teachers send them out to beg on the streets every day.
Datum: 16.09.2010 08:06 •
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During operation Pedro Pan, 14,000 children were sent from Cuba by the parents for what was supposed to be a better life in the US. For some it was an adventure, for a great many others life away from home was hard. Many never returned.
Datum: 15.09.2010 09:05 •
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"She walked in like a commander of the armed forces - despite the fact they had guns - she told them it was time for peace". Meet Sierra Leone's foreign minister Zainab Bangura, a remarkable woman who is trying to make poverty history in her nation.
Datum: 13.09.2010 10:48 •
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Self-confessed chess fanatic Simon Terrington assesses how computer technology has affected chess at the highest level and what this means for its future.
He looks at the moment when chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by the IBM computer Deep Blue and hears from experts about the impact tha...
Datum: 10.09.2010 08:05 •
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There are frantic preparations underway in India's capital city, Delhi, for the Commonwealth Games which start next month. But as Rupa Jha reports for Assignment, the work is bringing out both the best and the worst of the city.
Datum: 09.09.2010 08:06 •
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In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance in women's clothing - and they are often sexually abused. In part three of the World Stories series, Rustam Qobil reports on this ancient but controversial tradition. Listeners may find this documentary upsetting.
Datum: 08.09.2010 12:11 •
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Incompetence and corruption in Uganda's justice system is leading to countless numbers of prisoners being left to rot, and even die in Ugandan jails before their cases come to court. Meet the lawyers trying to get justice and freedom, amidst the chaos in Uganda.
Datum: 06.09.2010 10:34 •
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Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing.
She also asks whether cigarette manufacturers are trying to take advantage of poor regulation to build up new markets in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, as smoking has declined in developed countries.
Datum: 03.09.2010 10:48 •
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President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders. He's maintained a firm grip on power since taking over in a military coup in 1994. He professes to have invented a cure for Aids and has declared himself a hero of agriculture and development. He's also a man who like...
Datum: 02.09.2010 08:06 •
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In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community - was assassinated at his home in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Twenty years on, the Tamil Tigers have been defeated by the military. Appapillai's wife and son travel back to their homeland in search of...
Datum: 01.09.2010 09:05 •
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It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic discrimination by authorities in the Dominican Republic. Brian King meets the local lawyers who are fighting individual cases of injustice.
Datum: 31.08.2010 13:50 •
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Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco companies battle for new smokers. Poorer tobacco growing countries like Malawi are becoming ever more dependent on tobacco as a regular income. But how do they resolve the dilemma between health and wealth?
Datum: 27.08.2010 11:23 •
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Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest people. In this Assignment programme we hear from Honduran migrant workers in the US and from their impoverished families back home. Vera Frankl presents.
Datum: 26.08.2010 08:06 •
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"Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her youth. What has war done to a city that was once so beautiful and a people so vibrant? After decades of conflict, what is left aside from a feeling of nostalgia?
Datum: 25.08.2010 09:05 •
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Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has gone from strength to strength. The the BBC's Arabic affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi investigates the secret of its endurance and its global reach.
Datum: 23.08.2010 08:38 •
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Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering with, building and repairing them. It is a fixation that has got him into trouble with the law, but ultimately radio has been his saviour.
Datum: 20.08.2010 09:05 •
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Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands of Iraqi refugees after the invasion of 2003. It's taken more Iraqis than any other country in Europe - indeed one small town outside Stockholm, Södertälje, has taken more than the United States. But 3,000 of those...
Datum: 19.08.2010 08:06 •
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"No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brothers may be everywhere but the organisation is nowhere to be seen." The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi investigates Egypt's oldest Islamist organisation.
Datum: 16.08.2010 09:02 •
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Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world. He's eyeing up success in the mainstream market, but how can he compete in an industry that makes its profit from outrageous stars like Lady Gaga?
Datum: 13.08.2010 10:19 •
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How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia fought a brief war over the little known territory of South Ossetia. Russia sent its tanks deep into Georgian territory. In Georgia, the war led to an outbreak of patriotic fervour. In this week?s Assignment, Tom Es...
Datum: 12.08.2010 08:06 •
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In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ?useful idiots? - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes?
Datum: 11.08.2010 09:59 •
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"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do." Security Correspondent Gordon Corera reveals the story behind Israel's secret service.
Datum: 09.08.2010 09:46 •
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Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished government's answer to the masses of mixed-race orphans from the Korean war. All told, around 200,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas over the past 60 years.
About 300 of them have since returned to live in Korea...
Datum: 06.08.2010 10:50 •
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Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly worded statement denying any involvement in the killing of political opponents. Rob Walker has been investigating the allegations for Assignment.
Datum: 05.08.2010 09:00 •
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?That?s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.?
? Doris Lessing
In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ?useful idiots? - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent peopl...
Datum: 04.08.2010 08:05 •
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"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the deferntial culture of China. Will this deferential culture keep China behind the West in the race to create the next big thing?
Michael Robinson looks at whether the political model which has delivered China's fa...
Datum: 02.08.2010 13:43 •
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London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and a platform for the grotesque display of criminal's heads. It crosses the river Thames. How did it end up in Arizona?
Datum: 30.07.2010 09:30 •
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Jamaica has a reputation for producing world class athletes. Athletes are nurtured from a young age: boys and girls as young as six enter competitions and train intensively throughout their school years to compete in fiercely contested national athletics championships. Most of these children come ...
Datum: 29.07.2010 08:06 •
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The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals and the histories they carry with them. In Part Two listen to the touching story of Belfast-born Philip McTaggart, a man who lives in the shadow of his son's suicide.
Datum: 28.07.2010 10:07 •
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China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies.
There have been protests over wages and working conditions in factories of China's east coast but as Michael Robinson finds out, there are long-simmering problems as well.
Datum: 26.07.2010 13:15 •
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What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened between Denmark and Sweden, it forged a connection between two countries with a difficult past. How can Swedes from Scania and Danes from Zealand attempt to forge a new unified identity?
Datum: 23.07.2010 09:00 •
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Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are attacked by pirate gangs, many off the coast of Somalia. An international Combined Task Force now patrols the region and its ships regularly witness boarding raids and seize pirates, yet most are just released or retur...
Datum: 22.07.2010 08:06 •
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Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and Iraq. A seemingly ordinary girl, she is Oxford-educated and is dating a cavalry officer. However she has her own story to tell - a family story from the killing fields of Cambodia.
Datum: 21.07.2010 09:30 •
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Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology.
Datum: 19.07.2010 12:21 •
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The song Wimoweh, or The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been exposed to a mass audience with its inclusion in the musical The Lion King.
It is reportedly worth $16 million, but the composer died in poverty. Listen to the story of a song in search for justice.
Datum: 16.07.2010 12:46 •
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Michael Robinson examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence - and how its rise to superpower status is being accelerated by the world recession.
Datum: 12.07.2010 10:09 •
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Ben E King says of his song Stand By Me "It tends to fall in place for someone who needs it." What are the other factors that come into play for a song to endure across boundaries and generations?
Datum: 09.07.2010 09:05 •
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Catherine Miller reports from one of Cairo's biggest slums where - in 2008 - a massive rock slide swept away dozens of homes killing many people. Two year's on what's happened to the families of Manshiyet Nasser?
Datum: 08.07.2010 12:30 •
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The BBC's seminal role in launching Caribbean writing in the region is remembered 60 years on in Caribbean Voices.
Datum: 06.07.2010 23:06 •
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"A good photograph has an emotional component, the iconic photos hit you right away and they stay with you, and you just can't forget it." Razia Iqbal investigates the power of modern images and their ability to appeal to our imagination.
Datum: 05.07.2010 08:49 •
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London based British-Asian DJ, Bobby Friction travels to North America to find out more about the Canadian members of his family. How does closer inspection of one's family inform us about who we are and where we come from?
Datum: 02.07.2010 09:30 •
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Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants -- the toughest of its kind in the US. It allows police officers to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or detain, if there?s a suspicion that the person is in America illegally. Driving it is frustration both at Arizona?s ro...
Datum: 01.07.2010 08:06 •
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Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. How will the old acrimony between the world's most populous nations shape the new faultlines of power in Asia and the wider world?
Datum: 30.06.2010 11:27 •
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With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Fourth and last stop, the English Premiership...
Datum: 28.06.2010 10:07 •
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How does one's family history alter one's sense of sefl? Nihal Arthanayake - a successful London DJ - travels to Sri Lanka to find out more about his maternal grandfather, a lawyer and politician who was murdered in 1940.
Datum: 25.06.2010 09:05 •
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Pascale Harter reports from Spain for Assignment to see how families there are coping with record unemployment as the government slashes public spending to cope with its massive budget deficit. As she discovers, many people are turning to their families to get them through the hard times.
Datum: 24.06.2010 08:06 •
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Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. In the churn and tumult of India and China's rapid economic growth, which country has done more to lift the lives of its hundreds of millions of very poor?
Datum: 23.06.2010 08:00 •
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With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Third stop, the Ghana derby.
Datum: 21.06.2010 08:18 •
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Aung San Suu Kyi leads the pro-democracy movement in Burma. She has been under house arrest for 17 years. A personal look at the woman behind the political icon.
Datum: 18.06.2010 09:05 •
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Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and present of the rainbow nation through the eyes of its finest writers. How has the post-Apartheid nation evolved?
Datum: 16.06.2010 09:54 •
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With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Second stop, the Cairo derby.
Datum: 14.06.2010 08:08 •
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Amoret Whitaker is a forensic entomologist. She is called in to help on cases where it is difficult to determine the time of death. How does the study of insects help to solve crimes?
Datum: 11.06.2010 09:05 •
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The Indian government is engaged in its biggest ever offensive against Maoist insurgents in Jharkand state in eastern India. Large swathes of the territory are under rebel control and access to the area is rare. British Anthropologist Alpa Shah has visited a Maoist-controlled region in Jharkand an...
Datum: 10.06.2010 08:06 •
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Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and present of the rainbow nation through the eyes of its finest writers. How has the post-Apartheid nation evolved?
Datum: 09.06.2010 11:02 •
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With the World Cup fast approaching many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. First stop, the Milan derby.
Datum: 07.06.2010 08:37 •
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What is the mood of South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup? Audrey Brown talks to those who cannot wait to welcome the world to South Africa, as well as others who are more skeptical.
Datum: 04.06.2010 09:05 •
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When Thai soldiers stormed an anti-government protest in Bangkok last month more than 80 people were killed. Thawil - a rice farmer from the northeast of the country - was one of them. Assignment tell his story, who he was and what his death signals for Thailand's future.
Datum: 03.06.2010 08:06 •
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In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. His granddaughter explores this lost episode in America's early civil rights history.
Datum: 01.06.2010 17:32 •
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Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has never thanked Giandomenico Picco, the United Nations negotiator who arranged his release. In this documentary John at last travels to meet him and explores the development of the role of the crisis negotiator.
Datum: 31.05.2010 08:05 •
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Iran has an enthralling literary landscape. Poetry extends to all areas of Iranian life: scolding children, romanitc encounters and political protest. How has the Persian passion for poetry has shaped Iranian identity?
Datum: 28.05.2010 09:05 •
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This week's Assignment comes from Jamaica where there have been pitched street battles between police and supporters of an alleged drugs lord. Nina Robinson has been investigating the power and appeal of Michael Christopher Coke - the man known as Dudus - who's wanted on charges of drugs trafficki...
Datum: 27.05.2010 08:06 •
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The Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote a treatise called The Art of War over 2,500 years ago. From conflicts in Ireland to Iraq, the BBC explores how his words have influenced military warfare since.
Datum: 26.05.2010 10:42 •
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The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your goals is known as soft power. Philip Dodd examines the areas where this art of persuasion is being used. In part two Philip Dodd finds out if the values and culture of India can rival those of China - to make New Delh...
Datum: 24.05.2010 09:32 •
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Wedge Island is located in a secluded spot on the rugged, windswept Indian Ocean coastline off Australia. It is occupied by squatters who will be evicted when a new highway arrives. How are the people there dealing with this change in fortunes?
Datum: 21.05.2010 09:05 •
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In June 2009 the head of the World Health Organisation declared swine flu a global pandemic. Governments around the world sprang into action and ordered millions of doses of vaccine. But in the event thousands, not millions died, and swine flu proved to be less dangerous than ordinary seasonal flu. ...
Datum: 20.05.2010 08:06 •
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A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to a very big man and the only way you can stop the train is to push the big man onto the track. His bulk will stop the train and five lives will be spared. Would you do it? Steve Evans explores how these moral con...
Datum: 19.05.2010 14:44 •
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The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your goals is known as soft power. Philip Dodd examines the areas where this art of persuasion is being used. In the first part, he takes a look at how China's global charm offensive is taking shape - why they want to be l...
Datum: 17.05.2010 09:15 •
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Civil servant Ger Frits and poet Frank Starik come together in their shared determination that those who die alone in Amsterdam have a respectful and personal funeral.
Datum: 14.05.2010 09:30 •
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In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that their violent methods have outraged most Pakistanis.
For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the Taliban?s appeal ? and asks how much it?s based on class conflict, rather than religious faith.
Datum: 13.05.2010 08:06 •
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A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to a very big man and the only way you can stop the train is to push the big man onto the track: his bulk will stop the train; five lives will be spared. Would you?
Steve Evans explores how these moral conundrums...
Datum: 12.05.2010 11:30 •
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The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains exclusive access to Britain's ultra secret listening station where super computers monitor the world's communications traffic.
Datum: 10.05.2010 09:45 •
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A year-long transition from woman to man, chronicled by Tristan Whiston through the change in his singing voice.
Datum: 07.05.2010 13:26 •
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Assignment investigates how Goldman Sachs has made record profits since it was bailed out by the US government in 2008. Reporter Matt Prodger reveals that the firm is still operating as an investment bank, trading in exotic derivatives, more than a year after it turned itself into a regular bank hol...
Datum: 06.05.2010 08:06 •
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Award-winning travel writer Polly Evans goes in search of the other Guantanamo, talking to local people about their home and how they feel about it becoming synonymous with what Amnesty International called "the gulag of our times".
She delves into the history of the open-ended American lease of th...
Datum: 05.05.2010 14:00 •
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What are the practical and moral issues around this alternative energy source? Gerry Northam reports.
Datum: 03.05.2010 12:40 •
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In the UK, failed asylum seekers like Collen have no rights to accommodation or benefits. They cannot work. And yet it could be dangerous for him to return to Zimbabwe. What is it like for him and others like him to be living in limbo?
Datum: 30.04.2010 11:00 •
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With the British election on May 6th, the BBC?s Nina Robinson examines the class system to see how far it is still relevant to people living in Britain today.
Datum: 29.04.2010 08:00 •
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Apostle Asafo guides us around his remarkable workshops in Accra, where teenagers can learn trades. Is it really sustainable?
Datum: 28.04.2010 08:06 •
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Gerry Northam investigates claims that bio fuels - once believed to be the answer to global warming and dwindling oil stocks - are instead leading to heightened pollution, environmental havoc, deforestation, and worsening poverty and hunger.
Datum: 26.04.2010 08:53 •
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Unemployment in Soweto is well above the national average for South Africa. How are young people like Anza, Freddy and Sibusiso coping with long-term job searching and the daily temptations to make a fast - rather than an honest - buck?
Datum: 23.04.2010 09:15 •
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Toyota, the world's biggest car company, is in crisis, accused of putting the public at risk by selling cars that could potentially accelerate out of control. A company respected for years for its core principles, its reputation is now badly damaged. Justin Rowlatt asks how this happened and whether...
Datum: 22.04.2010 08:06 •
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Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared 20 years ago, and his son Hisham is investigating his fate. Razia Iqbal reports.
Datum: 21.04.2010 09:00 •
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Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In part three he looks at why the British government is now investing big money in trying to combat the appeal of radical Islam. But will its strategy work?
Datum: 19.04.2010 09:38 •
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In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved between what is now modern Greece and Turkey. What do these communities share after years of political division?
Datum: 16.04.2010 09:07 •
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It's ten years since Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land reform programme which saw the forced transfer of white commercial farms into black ownership. Since then the country has been through a period of political turmoil and sharp economic decline. For Assignment, Dan Isaacs travels...
Datum: 15.04.2010 10:11 •
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How does tourism affect local culture? In the second part of Living With Tourists, Ros Atkins visits holiday destinations in England and the Caribbean where people have been arguing that tourism ignores the importance of culture at its peril.
Datum: 14.04.2010 10:00 •
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Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In part two he finds out how a network of young jihadists - that stretched across three continents - were plotting together with murderous intent.
Datum: 12.04.2010 08:51 •
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In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved moved between what is now modern Greece and Turkey. What do these communities share after years of political division?
Datum: 09.04.2010 09:05 •
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With several European countries now considering banning face veils in public places, Claire Bolderson reports from France, home to Europe's biggest muslim population, and the place where heated debate over the Niqab began.
Datum: 08.04.2010 08:06 •
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Is tourism encroaching on lives, highlighting inequalities and causing antipathy between visitors and hosts? BBC presenter Ros Atkins visits tourist hotspots in England and the Caribbean to examine attitudes to tourism and tourists.
Datum: 07.04.2010 09:00 •
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In the first of a three-part series, Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet.
Datum: 05.04.2010 07:43 •
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Diverse short films that represent humanity. That was the end result of the BBC World Service My World competition. Simon Pitts talks to some of the film-makers whose work featured in this remarkable mosaic of humanity.
Datum: 02.04.2010 09:05 •
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A series of recent arrests across Europe has highlighted the growing threat of match-fixing in European football. How are the games rigged? David Goldblatt investigates.
Datum: 01.04.2010 06:50 •
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American author Joe Queenan visits Sweden, perhaps the most exciting and important centre for crime fiction over the last two decades, most recently offering up Stieg Larsson's international phenomenon, the Millennium trilogy.
Datum: 31.03.2010 11:30 •
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The writ of Habeas Corpus prevents an individual from unlawful detention. Historically it safeguards individuals from arbitrary state imprisonment. Frances Fyfield explores this tremendously important principle we often take for granted.
Datum: 29.03.2010 08:05 •
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Australian men are typically defined as confident and unassailable characters, but this stereotype is outdated, and has made it difficult for today's generation to open up when times are tough. How can community sheds help?
Datum: 26.03.2010 10:05 •
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Tinku Ray reports from Mangalore in south India where street vigilantes are making it dangerous for young couples to walk hand in hand in public - especially if they don't share the same religion.
Datum: 25.03.2010 17:19 •
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American author Joe Queenan's passion for crime fiction sees him heading to two very different locations to find out about the nature of the crime there and how it is reflected in the indigenous hard-boiled literature.
Datum: 24.03.2010 12:30 •
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"I don't know anything about the genocide. I didn't kill anyone or steal from anyone. I just want to get back to my home, to my family property with my children," Sorious Samura follows Vestine, a Hutu refugee as she returns home to Rwanda after the genocide.
Datum: 22.03.2010 11:29 •
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China patrols its cyberspace carefully. The government there closes down hundreds of websites each year and blocks access to many international websites.How do Chinese citizens get over the great firewall of China?
Datum: 19.03.2010 10:05 •
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Najieh Ghulami looks at the way bloggers in Afghanistan operate and how increased internet penetration will help the country's development.
Datum: 17.03.2010 12:50 •
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Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of the internet twenty years on by asking whether our brains are being rewired by the net. Are Facebook and other social media infantilising and corrupting young minds, or will they encourage a new cooperative way of thinking?
Datum: 15.03.2010 10:00 •
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Nick finds that internet cafes are not just a way to stay in contact with family, friends and football results.
Datum: 12.03.2010 10:05 •
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An investigation into the expertise of Russian hackers. What makes them so good at breaking cyberdefences?
Datum: 11.03.2010 14:06 •
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The people behind the booming online dating industry in India believe they are transforming society.
But critics say they are just cementing old prejudices.
Can this new online revolution really cross the digital divide to the large majority of Indians who still scarcely understand what the Inte...
Datum: 10.03.2010 10:30 •
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How commerce has colonised the web - and how web users are paying for what appear to be free sites and services in hidden ways.
Datum: 08.03.2010 10:00 •
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The Ponte Milvio, the bridge that spans the Tiber river in Rome, is a site of both romantic and religious pilgrimage. What place has the bridge had in ancient - and modern - history?
Datum: 05.03.2010 10:05 •
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It was a charity appeal on a global scale. In 1985, an unprecedented array of performers took part in two marathon, televised concerts in Britain and the United States - all to raise money for a terrible famine in Ethiopia. And it worked. It's thought the concerts eventually generated about two h...
Datum: 04.03.2010 09:06 •
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Nina Robinson returns to east London for the second part of Great Expectations, the series discovering the community living in the shadows of the London 2012 Olympics.
She hears from Hilary, who has two children, about why she does not feel initiatives from the government really work for families...
Datum: 03.03.2010 10:05 •
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How has the online world impacted on global politics? Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping power.
Datum: 01.03.2010 10:00 •
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Italian artist Joseph Stella depicted the Brooklyn Bridge in New York as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America. What does the bridge mean to people who cross it today?
Datum: 26.02.2010 10:05 •
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No-one likes paying tax - but avoiding it is a way of life for many people in Greece, whose black economy is estimated to be worth more than a quarter of its GDP. This certainly hasn't helped the government as it struggles to bring down its budget deficit - which currently stands at more than 12%. S...
Datum: 25.02.2010 09:06 •
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The world may be coming to East London in 2012, but the world is already represented and residing in Hackney, East London.
With the Olympics arriving on their doorstep, BBC World Service will be following the experiences of residents living in one inner city housing estate as they contemplate wha...
Datum: 24.02.2010 10:05 •
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Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our world : A quarter of the planet is now online and able as never before to communicate, publish, and garner information seemingly without limits. But will the Web?s empowerment of ordinary people endure? As part of the BB...
Datum: 22.02.2010 10:06 •
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Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his extraordinary story.
Datum: 19.02.2010 10:06 •
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A war is raging between rival drug cartels along Mexico's border with the United States. Last year more than 7000 people were killed in the drug related violence and 2010 has already got off to a bloody start. For Assignment Katya Adler reports on the shocking consequences of the conflict on Mexic...
Datum: 18.02.2010 09:06 •
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As the United States endures its worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, historian Simon Schama explores the debate about the morality which has run through American history and asks about the future of capitalism.
Datum: 17.02.2010 10:45 •
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The religious face of New York is being transformed. Once the preserve of the Irish Catholics, New York?s churches are now filled with Hispanic Catholics. The dominance of the Irish immigrant community has long been on the wane but not so the Irish leadership of the Catholic Church which is still le...
Datum: 15.02.2010 10:32 •
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The fabric of island life as described through the most non-instant of communication devices - the message in a bottle.
Datum: 12.02.2010 10:05 •
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Every year thousands of asylum seekers are detained in Britain. They are held while the Home Office decides whether to grant their claim for asylum or to remove them from the country. Its part of what is supposed to be a faster and more effective system for dealing with asylum. But there are claims ...
Datum: 11.02.2010 12:38 •
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Simon Schama examines some of the daunting challenges facing Barack Obama, both on the world stage and at home. In part one he considers potential strategies for the president's inherited conflict in Afghanistan.
Datum: 10.02.2010 10:30 •
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Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon, meeting people who think his presidency is nothing but bad news.
Datum: 08.02.2010 11:29 •
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Zheng He was an epic seafarer who predates Columbus - and who symbolises China's martine supremacy. Why don?t more of us know more about him?
Datum: 05.02.2010 10:05 •
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In Europe, school history textbooks are used to heal the wounds of conflict, overcome deep-seated antagonisms between neighbouring countries and achieve greater understanding among states that must work together politically and economically.
Datum: 03.02.2010 14:30 •
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Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon, meeting people who think his presidency is nothing but bad news.
Datum: 01.02.2010 11:27 •
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Farayi Mungazi looks ahead to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and explores how racial politics have affected football's development in that country.
Datum: 29.01.2010 10:50 •
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On 12th January a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in the Caribbean. As many as 200,000 people may have been killed and some 2 million are in need of aid. In this edition of Assignment the BBC's International Development Corrrespondent Mark Doyle reports on Ten days in Haiti.
Datum: 28.01.2010 12:15 •
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Mark Whitaker looks at South Africa?s struggle to produce school history textbooks that are adequate and appropriate for the post-apartheid country.
Datum: 27.01.2010 10:10 •
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Adebayor, Droga and Essien are African football superstars who have found fame and wealth in Europe, but as Farayi Mungazi tells us, there are many who have failed in the quest for glory.
Datum: 22.01.2010 12:00 •
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Gavin Lee tells the story of how a former prison guard at Guantanamo Bay detention centre sought reconciliation with two of his former prisoners.
Datum: 21.01.2010 09:06 •
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Business, money, demographics, politics - these are the issues preventing health reform from going ahead in the US. Michael Goldfarb looks at the complexities.
Datum: 20.01.2010 10:05 •
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As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of African Sport on BBC World Service's Fast Track, crosses the continent to explore the history of African Football and tells a story that is by turns epic and unexpected.
Datum: 15.01.2010 10:18 •
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Assignment explores what President Barack Obama done in his attempts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre? The BBC's Jon Manel discovers why the US administration failed to meet the closure deadline set on the President's second day in office.
Datum: 14.01.2010 11:00 •
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Michael Goldfarb looks at President Obama's mission to reform America's health care system.
Datum: 13.01.2010 10:10 •
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As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of African Sport on BBC World Service?s Fast Track, crosses the continent to explore the history of African Football and tells a story that is by turns epic and unexpected.
Datum: 08.01.2010 11:30 •
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Angola has also been described as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Rob Walker re-traces the story of the "Angolagate" deal and goes on the trail of a story that changed the course of the civil war in the 1990s - and tracks down those who got rich because of it.
Datum: 06.01.2010 10:05 •
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The decade began with China being awarded the Olympics in 2001 and then two months later came 9/11. President Bush turned from being a daddy?s boy to America?s Commander in Chief, heading a global coalition dedicated to fighting terror. There would be a new world order, but not in the way many had i...
Datum: 04.01.2010 11:00 •
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The Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired in Finland has one important aim: discouraging blind children from relying on high tech and expensive navigational aids. Find out how they help.
Datum: 01.01.2010 10:05 •
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A midget street thug on a kiddy bike. Incompetent thieves who resort to stealing air-conditioning units. A woman too drunk to notice a police car heading towards her with all lights flashing.
These are just some of the criminals and junkies, the faithful and forlorn encountered by one police off...
Datum: 30.12.2009 10:12 •
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Twenty years ago, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
The greatest symbol of the Cold War, which many never dreamt they would see disappear, was overwhelmed by people power.
This momentous event precipitated largely peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe as people shook of...
Datum: 25.12.2009 10:05 •
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The Canadian city of Vancouver is routinely named as one of the best communities in the world in which to live. But the city, which is to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in the coming weeks, is fast developing another reputation: one built on illicit drugs and guns. Bill Law reports for Assignment ...
Datum: 24.12.2009 10:06 •
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Back in the year 2000, the world's leaders did not seem to be troubled by the notion of global warming, so what has changed?
Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which history has been put on fast forward.
Datum: 23.12.2009 17:46 •
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What have been the defining moments of the decade? Edward Stourton explores Google's mighty impact on the internet and finds a world of complex moral and legal pitfalls beneath the promise.
Datum: 23.12.2009 10:26 •
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Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via internet cafe. Via Kenya and France he finds a remarkable story in Benin of a young man for whom a single search changed his life.
Datum: 23.12.2009 10:05 •
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It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communism in Eastern Europe, but there's no clear figure for those imprisoned, persecuted or spied on. While few have been put on trial for those crimes, most countries have started to open their secret police archives and some have lim...
Datum: 18.12.2009 10:05 •
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Until recently, little Latvia appeared to have a rosy future. It was the fastest growing economy in Europe. But now that boom looks like a mirage. No country in the EU has been worse hit by the global recession. Its economy has been in freefall, property prices have collapsed, unemployment has b...
Datum: 17.12.2009 10:06 •
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Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via the internet. His journey takes him to New York, China and London.
Datum: 16.12.2009 10:05 •
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Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, looks at the communist regimes and movements orphaned by the collapse of the governments of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.
In Programme Two Quentin looks at the new self-proclaimed "radical" governments in Latin America, such ...
Datum: 14.12.2009 10:30 •
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To what extent did communist regimes intrude into the lives of ordinary people? And how are they dealing with those transgressions now the files have been made publicly available?
Datum: 11.12.2009 08:05 •
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Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada ? or uprising ? was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied territories. This was an era when Palestinian militants regularly battled the Israeli Defence Force in the streets. The BBC?s Alan Johnston reported from Nablus during ...
Datum: 10.12.2009 09:06 •
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The second part of Jonathon Porritt's report from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds some extraordinary and pioneering green solutions.
In two provocative and counter-intuitive programmes, Jonathon Porritt flies in the face of international prot...
Datum: 09.12.2009 10:05 •
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Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, presents the first of a two-part series looking at the communist regimes and movements 'orphaned' by the collapse of the governments of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.
Datum: 07.12.2009 11:23 •
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Did I turn out to be the son you wanted? What was the saddest moment of your life? Questions like these have arisen out of StoryCorps - an American oral history project described as "a story-foraging mission of epic proportions".
Datum: 04.12.2009 09:05 •
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Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed 8000 people. Allan Little returns to the scene of the disaster to find out why people are still suffering.
Datum: 03.12.2009 15:45 •
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Jonathon Porritt reports from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds some extraordinary and pioneering green solutions.
In two provocative and counter-intuitive programmes, Jonathon Porritt flies in the face of international protest and fear at what...
Datum: 02.12.2009 10:05 •
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In the final part of this series, Owen Bennett-Jones examines the Islamic leader who confronted the might of the British Empire.
The Mahdi was a devout man, who developed a huge following. This programme examines his rise to power and his clash with the British General, Charles Gordon.
Datum: 30.11.2009 12:01 •
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How would you like to leave a record of your life for your great-great-great-grandchildren? That's the future for participants of StoryCorps, an American oral history project. What do people choose to talk about?
Datum: 27.11.2009 08:44 •
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Twenty seven years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, or the Malvinas islands, Argentine army officers are facing prosecution. Not for the way they treated the enemy, but for crimes allegedly committed against their own troops.
Datum: 26.11.2009 10:06 •
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In Assignment Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and Germany are controlling a deadly African militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For the last 15 years, the rebels of the FDLR have enforced their control through a series of brutal atrocities. Now Assignment has secret ...
Datum: 26.11.2009 09:06 •
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The BBC World Service has been investigating the controversial issue of whether poor countries have ever seen all of the money promised by industrialised countries in 2001. According to some less than 10 percent of it has been paid: others disagree.
Datum: 25.11.2009 10:05 •
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In the third instalment of The Crescent and the Cross, Owen Bennett Jones examines one of the most important Muslim empires in history - the Ottoman Empire. In particular, it focuses on the time of Suleiman The Magnificent, a towering figure in the rivalry between Christianity and Islam, and a cr...
Datum: 23.11.2009 10:05 •
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The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life.
Through personal stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
In part two John returns to Prague to speak to those who lived throu...
Datum: 19.11.2009 16:13 •
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In Nepal, severe drought and unreliable monsoon rains have led to acute food shortages. The impact is felt most by people like Charuri who is struggling to feed three children and cannot afford the medical help she needs.
Datum: 18.11.2009 10:30 •
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Owen Bennett Jones explores five crucial battles in the relationship between Christianity and Islam. This episode looks at the Crusades.
Datum: 16.11.2009 10:05 •
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Seventy years after the start of the Second World War the overwhelming impression is of a conflict fought on the battlefields of Europe by white troops. Britain?s war effort was bolstered by soldiers from the white Commonwealth ? Australia, Canada and New Zealand and later by the United States. The ...
Datum: 12.11.2009 14:16 •
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As governments struggle to curb the so-called ?casino-banking? practices which some blame for the global financial meltdown, Michael Robinson now reports on growing concerns over super-fast, computerised share-dealing systems which are earning massive new profits for banks.
Datum: 12.11.2009 10:06 •
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Thrown off nearby farms at the time of Namibia?s independence, the squatters of Otjivero lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Last year a scheme was established to give every inhabitant a basic cash grant of US$10 a month, to spend as they wanted. School enrolment has shot up, small businesses are sprin...
Datum: 11.11.2009 10:05 •
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The Crescent and the Cross, a four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett-Jones, examines several turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa.
Part One starts by look going back over 1,000 ye...
Datum: 09.11.2009 11:27 •
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To mark the 50th birthday of Youssou N'Dour, Robin Denselow travels to Senegal to profile the best known African musician of recent times.
Datum: 05.11.2009 15:12 •
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Mark Doyle reports from Guinea in West Africa on the harrowing events of 28 September when government troops crushed an opposition rally in the centre of the capital, Conakry. This programme contains some graphic description of sexual violence.
Datum: 05.11.2009 09:06 •
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What keeps a billion people trapped in the most persistent poverty? Mike Wooldridge travels to Nicaragua to meet Justa who hoped for a better life after the Sandinista revolution.
Datum: 04.11.2009 10:00 •
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The extraordinary but little-known tale of Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front. At home they were celebrated as 'Stalin's Falcons' but terrified German troops called them the 'Night Witches'.
Datum: 02.11.2009 09:56 •
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Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a famous spot not to gaze as tourists, but for work or for their own private reasons.
The second programme is set in the Taj Mahal, where we hear the experience...
Datum: 30.10.2009 09:05 •
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Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to meet a doctor who is battling against the odds to prevent women from dying in childbirth. Listeners may find parts of this Assignment programme distressing.
Datum: 29.10.2009 09:06 •
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Nigeria is campaigning for a new image and a new reputation in an effort to attract some much needed investment. Reporter Henry Bonsu follows the many steps of this charm offensive.
Datum: 28.10.2009 09:14 •
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The head of Britain?s Secret Intelligence Service Sir John Scarlett, talks for the first time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6?s role in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
Datum: 26.10.2009 12:01 •
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Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a famous spot not to gaze as tourists, but for work or for their own private reasons.
Datum: 23.10.2009 08:05 •
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When a 17 month-old London child died after horrific abuse by his family, it unleashed a barrage of criticism against British social services. For Assignment Catherine Miller gains rare access to the people whose job it is to protect Britain's vulnerable children.
Datum: 22.10.2009 08:06 •
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Can the home of 419 internet scams, corruption and voodoo ever transmit a positive image? Is changing Nigeria's image an impossible mission?
Datum: 21.10.2009 09:05 •
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In Programme Two, we find out what were spies really up to behind the Iron Curtain.
MI6 chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting with an agent, and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side.
Datum: 19.10.2009 09:30 •
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Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the Chess Olympiad. In the last two Olympiads, the winning medal has gone to a small country in the Caucasus. How has this nation done it? Gabriel Gatehouse investigates.
Datum: 15.10.2009 22:06 •
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The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989.
Datum: 15.10.2009 13:28 •
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An unprecedented look inside MI6 - Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which marks its centenary this year.
Programme One - Gadgets & Green Ink explores the early years of MI6, set up by Sir Mansfield Cumming, a formidable figure known as 'C' who signed his name in green ink.
Datum: 12.10.2009 09:00 •
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Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you have to choose a single object to take with you - something so full of resonance that it will always remind you of the life and people that you left behind. In th...
Datum: 09.10.2009 09:48 •
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A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes' law is sending people to prison for life even if their third crime is a non-violent one. Now a group of law students is trying to change things. Rob Walker reports.
Datum: 08.10.2009 08:06 •
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Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move across Europe. It has suffered a dramatic decline over the last century. What will become of it now?
Datum: 07.10.2009 09:00 •
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The third part of the BBC's definitive series on the banking crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks what has been learnt from the entire calamity. Could it happen again?
Datum: 05.10.2009 13:29 •
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Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you have to choose a single object to take with you - something so full of resonance that it will always remind you of the life and people that you left behind.
Datum: 02.10.2009 08:05 •
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It's straight out of the pages of a thriller novel: a cargo ship, lost without trace; pirates working the seas at the heart of Europe; whispers of arms smuggling and the scent of international conspiracy. The mysterious disappearance of a Russian-operated cargo ship off the coast of Britain in late...
Datum: 01.10.2009 08:06 •
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Presenter Jenny Cuffe sets out to find Fereinatu, a teenage girl who was trafficked for sex. She had returned to her impoverished home in Benin City, but she is missing once more and relatives fear she may have been sucked back into prostitution.
Datum: 30.09.2009 09:20 •
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This week's Assignment looks at the much-vaunted crackdown on tax havens announced by the G20 earlier this year. The drive is aimed at getting tax havens to agree to yield up information on tax cheats. But is the G-20's weapon of choice, shooting blanks? Is its approach cumbersome and ineffective in...
Datum: 29.09.2009 11:46 •
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The second of this three-part series that examines the boom before the bust of 2008 looks at how our attitudes to risk and debt changed with disastrous consequences.
Datum: 28.09.2009 14:30 •
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Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just weeks after the Wall Street Crash, giving Americans hope in times of depression. Jonathan Glancey, architecture correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in London, looks at the economic and social policies of the 1...
Datum: 25.09.2009 08:05 •
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Two years ago, Jenny Cuffe followed the journeys of migrants trying to leave Africa and find a better life in Europe.
Innocent Akibor left Nigeria to get to Spain. As exploitation greets him at almost every step of his journey, listen to find out if he made his dream come true.
Datum: 22.09.2009 15:15 •
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What were the key moments that led to financial meltdown, and what happened in the aftermath? The first of a three-part series that looks closely at the turbulent events in the autumn of 2008.
Datum: 21.09.2009 15:45 •
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If my dog is tough then I'm tough. Killer dogs give teenagers status in Chicago. For Assignment, Nina Robinson, goes right to the heart of the cruel sport of dog fighting that is attracting so many young people in the run down areas of Chicago's south side.
Datum: 17.09.2009 16:00 •
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Just weeks after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, work began on the Empire State Building. The Guardian's architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey assesses the economics of building out of a recession.
Datum: 17.09.2009 15:17 •
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President Barack Obama has famously written of the influence exerted on him by his father in his memoir Dreams of My Father, but what of his mother, Ann Dunham? Listen to Judith Kampfner as she unveils more about this unconventional and idealistic woman.
Datum: 15.09.2009 15:17 •
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enjamin Jealous is the leader of America's oldest and largest black civil rights group. In a USA fronted by Barack Obama, what are the future battlegrounds for African American human rights?
Datum: 14.09.2009 09:05 •
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Bermeja Island is missing. This strategically important island was clearly visible on maps of the Gulf of Mexico until the middle of the 20th century but it's now gone. BBC Mundo's David Cuen goes in search.
Datum: 11.09.2009 09:30 •
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What role did the business schools play in last year's financial crisis? In this week's edition of Assignment, Ed Butler investigates whether, as the chair of Harvard's MBA programme insists, the schools were guilty only of teaching a deficient assessment of risk in the business world, or whether so...
Datum: 09.09.2009 22:06 •
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n the second episode Michael Buerk visits Cairo and experience for himself how bloggers - arguably among the most hounded anywhere in the world - are taking on the Egyptian government.
Datum: 09.09.2009 13:48 •
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Enterprise, money, innovation are all there. Is tapping into a continent's optimism the key to Africa's future? Mark Doyles looks at the solutions to solve Africa's poverty.
Datum: 07.09.2009 09:06 •
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Rachid Sekkai from the BBC's Arabic Service talks to Muslims currently serving in the Israeli Defence Force and also to former soldiers and hears about the conflicts they face, at home and on duty, and the pride that military service sometimes brings them.
Datum: 04.09.2009 09:30 •
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Colin Yu is a teacher who lives in Shanghai. He has a job but still struggles to support his parents on his modest income. Colin would like to spend more money and the Chinese government is offering incentives to people like him to go out and buy Chinese goods. They're hoping that by doing so it ...
Datum: 03.09.2009 08:06 •
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Michael Buerk analyses the potential ? and the dangers ? of citizen journalism. In part one, he talks to bloggers and critics from Sri Lanka, Iran, Burma, and Iraq.
Datum: 02.09.2009 08:00 •
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Accusations of tribalism, corruption and complacency have all been offered as explanations to the question of Africa's poverty. Mark Doyle looks at each of these and asks why the status quo persists.
Datum: 31.08.2009 09:05 •
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Violent footage from the Kashmir conflict has been shared almost in real-time by citizen-journalists on video sharing websites. Suvojit Bagchi tells the story of the impact of new media communication in a conflict zone.
Datum: 28.08.2009 08:50 •
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Six months ago there was a short military revolt in Bangladesh that threatened to push the country into nationwide armed conflict. But some things remain mysterious. Why was it so brutal? Who was really behind it? What did they hope to achieve? In this week?s addition of Assignment, Mark Dummet...
Datum: 27.08.2009 08:06 •
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Nick Rankin explores how we assess the value of gold.
Datum: 26.08.2009 09:28 •
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Mark Doyle crosses the continent of Africa and finds a place rich in natural resources and human potential, which begs the question, why is Africa poor? Outsiders have been coming to Africa for centuries for its raw materials and potential. It was an exploitative relationship that has contributed to...
Datum: 24.08.2009 09:05 •
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Ko Ko Aung from the BBC's Burmese Service, travelled to Burma to find out why a rebel army of 100 men is taking on the 400,000 strong Burmese army.
Datum: 21.08.2009 08:30 •
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Fran Abrams is given rare access to the US base in Djibouti questioning military chiefs, local leaders and ordinary Djiboutians as she explores the role and impact of America's African outpost.
Datum: 20.08.2009 10:28 •
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Nick Rankin descends into the deepest goldmine in the world ? Tau Tona in South Africa for part two of this series. Five thousand miners extract gold up to four kilometres under the surface but for every tonne of ore they take out, there is only 8 grams of gold to be found. Nick talks to miners abou...
Datum: 19.08.2009 10:11 •
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Mukul Devichand tells the story of the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's expanding middle class to ditch their noodles and soya in favour of pricey European fine foods.
Datum: 14.08.2009 14:10 •
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American physicist Richard Feynman fell in love with the remote Russian region Tuva through his hobby of stamp collecting. He died just before his visitor's visa arrived but his daughter Michelle went to the land of throat singers in his honour.
Datum: 14.08.2009 09:30 •
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The Afghan drugs mafia is rich, powerful and entrenched, with connections running into the heart of the Afghan state. But a new, multi-million dollar counter-narcotics justice system has started to get results and is putting senior traffickers in prison. So when people heard that the Afghan presid...
Datum: 13.08.2009 08:06 •
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Man's long-term obsession with gold and the lengths we have gone to to get it. From the ancient myth of King Midas, through Alexander The Great and the Spanish Conquistadors to the massive mines of South Africa, Nick Rankin unlocks the history and enduring fascination of the rare yellow metal that h...
Datum: 12.08.2009 08:06 •
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Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values in the life of Victorian designer, poet, and craftsman William Morris.
Datum: 10.08.2009 08:54 •
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The World Health Organisation has warned that the worldwide spread of the so-called Swine Flu virus is now unstoppable. As cases continue to multiply, reporter Julian O'Halloran investigates the origins of the H1N1 virus and examines claims that it is linked to factory style pig farming.
Datum: 04.08.2009 14:23 •
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Iran in the post 9/11 era, a time of friction and unrest over its nuclear ambitions.
Datum: 03.08.2009 09:17 •
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A slice of life at a shabby but popular tenement in Hong Kong's teeming commercial district.
Datum: 31.07.2009 10:00 •
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Colin Grant reflects on the BBC?s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 years on from the original broadcast of Caribbean Voices.
Datum: 28.07.2009 14:19 •
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The inside story of Iran's war with Iraq, and how the US viewed the conflict - ultimately a battle for control and influcence in this most vital, but unstable, part of the world.
Datum: 27.07.2009 08:30 •
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Nick Rankin travels to Fair Isle, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the British Isles, to see how newcomers find their place in a small and tight-knit community on a rocky island which is too windy for trees to grow on.
Datum: 24.07.2009 14:00 •
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In this week's edition of Assignment, Jill McGivering travels through Pakistan, hearing the stories of some of the two million people who fled their homes as a result of the fighting between government forces and the Taliban in the country?s North West ? and assesses the consequences of the humanita...
Datum: 23.07.2009 08:06 •
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Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura drops into the middle of an undercover investigation of a Chinese brothel in Accra, Ghana, where 16 women have been trafficked to work as prostitutes.
Datum: 22.07.2009 13:00 •
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Colin Grant reflects on the BBC?s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 years on from the original broadcast of Caribbean Voices.
Datum: 21.07.2009 13:55 •
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For the first time, the BBC tells the story of Iran's relationship with the West over the last 30 years - as seen by the key insiders on both sides.
Datum: 20.07.2009 11:44 •
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A soundscape of memory, loss, regret and hope from men who have been living with HIV for over 20 years in New Zealand.
Datum: 17.07.2009 15:26 •
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In this series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In the final programme, she meets Egyptian scientists experimenting with techniques to make the desert bloom.
Datum: 15.07.2009 06:06 •
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The story of four imprisoned Uyghur men transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the wealthy paradise of Bermuda.
Datum: 10.07.2009 09:50 •
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South Africa's wealthy are retreating to high-security gated communities to protect themselves from violent crime. In Islands of Security we explore why the issue of keeping people out is a sensitive one in post-Apartheid times.
Datum: 10.07.2009 08:55 •
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150,000 Cambodians are reported to be facing eviction from their land. Huge tracts of the country have been granted to private companies for large scale agriculture or other purposes. Some of those who have tried to resist say they have been attacked or threatened. Rob Walker reports for Assignment...
Datum: 09.07.2009 08:06 •
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In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In programme two she visits the Desert Research Station in Namibia. Can they increase the water available in arid areas such as the Namib?
Datum: 08.07.2009 08:10 •
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Teenagers on the island of Alert Bay, British Columbia, talk openly about the beauty and frustration on living in a remote place.
Datum: 02.07.2009 16:17 •
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Thembi Ngubane?s Radio Diary about living with Aids in a South African Township.
Datum: 02.07.2009 13:44 •
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It's widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world. It makes heavy demands on its members - and has been accused of cult-like practices. It's also an influential movement within Roman Catholicism. Opus Dei, made famous by Dan Brown's bestselling novel the Da Vinci...
Datum: 02.07.2009 08:06 •
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In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In programme one she asks, what are the implications for traditional nomadic desert communities?
Datum: 01.07.2009 09:47 •
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In this special edition of Assignment, John Simpson reveals how the protests, and the police reprisals that followed, are intricately linked to the rivalry inside the clique of clerics who created the Islamic state.
Datum: 27.06.2009 10:06 •
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When the dried blood of Naples' patron saint fails to liquefy, Neapolitans believe great misfortune will descend upon them. With Mount Vesuvius overdue for a major eruption, Malcolm Billings investigates if tragedy awaits this historic city.
Datum: 26.06.2009 07:46 •
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After 28 years in power, President Mubarak's promise of shepherding his country into a stable democracy has all but dissipated.
Datum: 25.06.2009 15:57 •
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In a programme first broadcast in April, Ed Butler reports from New York on how the super rich have been dealing with the impact of the financial crisis.
Datum: 25.06.2009 11:00 •
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In the final part of this series, Mike Gallagher meets a British farmer working vast landholdings in Hungary and Serbia. Does 'going global' in agriculture really offer a better future?
Datum: 24.06.2009 06:06 •
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After 28 years in power, Mubarak's promise of leading Egypt into stable democracy has dissipated. Magdi Abdelhadi reports.
Datum: 22.06.2009 09:16 •
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Listen to the story of Suzanne, a single woman in her forties who opted for a trans-racial adoption and became the mother of an African-American baby.
Datum: 18.06.2009 14:08 •
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Hundreds of thousands of people have fled from Somalia since civil war broke out there in the early 1990s. Many of them go to refugee camps in Kenya, others to Tanzania - and many have spent more than 15 years living in those camps. But one group has been more fortunate than others - the Somali Bant...
Datum: 18.06.2009 08:06 •
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In this series, Mike Gallagher meets two farmers working outside their own countries. In programme one, a young Ecuadorian visits Hawaii. What farming techniques can he take back to Ecuador?
Datum: 17.06.2009 10:11 •
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Justin Webb goes beyond his role as a journalist to explore the issue from the perspective of a parent who is desperate to know what the future holds for his child.
Datum: 12.06.2009 14:40 •
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The final programme in the My World series explores the story of Pornthip Rojanasunan, Thailand?s leading forensic scientist who has turned a straightforward autopsy into a battleground for the truth.
Datum: 12.06.2009 10:42 •
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In this series, David Goldblatt charts the rise of Twenty20 cricket. In the final programme he asks, can the Twenty20 revolution help to make cricket become a truly global game?
Datum: 10.06.2009 09:35 •
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A poetic story of survival set against the soundscape of the Mathare slums in Kenya. Meet Kades, a teenage poet who has escaped poverty.
Datum: 08.06.2009 13:21 •
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Martin Wolf, of the Financial Times, predicted that the global downturn would be much worse than anyone had reason to believe.
Datum: 08.06.2009 09:04 •
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Since the beginning of last year, pirates have succeeded in seizing more than 70 ships off the coast of Somalia. Hundreds of crew members have been held to ransom, and millions of dollars have been paid to the pirates to secure their release. For Assignment Rob Walker has gained exclusive access to...
Datum: 04.06.2009 09:40 •
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David Goldblatt charts the recent arrival and rise on the sporting scene of Twenty20 cricket. David meets those who run the game, former and current players, and seasoned commentators. Has Twenty20 changed cricket for ever?
Datum: 03.06.2009 06:06 •
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Tracing the profound physical and emotional toll on all those involved in the wake of a single collision on a road.
Datum: 29.05.2009 15:10 •
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Every year, 15 million people will suffer from a stroke, five million of them will die and a further five million will be left permanently disabled.
This documentary tells the story of Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who suffered a massive stroke 13 years ago.
Knowing how the brain ope...
Datum: 28.05.2009 08:51 •
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James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests.
Datum: 26.05.2009 14:09 •
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Abraham Lincoln's legacy and political influence is more powerful today than it ever was. Allan Little looks at how movements and leaders from very different political perspectives have looked up to Lincoln.
Datum: 25.05.2009 06:06 •
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Follow the story of Gemma Tracee Apiku, a former refugee who spent her teenage years in the camps of Sudan, as she returns to Africa to become a relief worker herself.
Datum: 22.05.2009 08:06 •
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Until the end of last year Bernard Madoff was a highly respected financial guru and long time advisor to America's rich and famous. Then on Thursday the twelfth December 2008 he was exposed as a major crook.
His 'Ponzi' scheme is probably the largest ever pyramid fraud in US history. Amongst hi...
Datum: 21.05.2009 07:06 •
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James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests.
Datum: 19.05.2009 10:51 •
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Mauritania is a country with a tradition of slavery, but in August 2007 owning slaves became a criminal act. David Gutnick visits Mauritania and finds out how entrenched the master/slave relationship still is.
Datum: 18.05.2009 06:08 •
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Assignment this week investigates just who was responsible for the toxic dumping in Ivory Coast, and what it was that caused one hundred thousand people to become so ill there.
Datum: 14.05.2009 14:21 •
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Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression. He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devise...
Datum: 13.05.2009 08:27 •
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Vivek Kumar runs India's number one detective agency and business - investigating marital infidelities - is booming.
Datum: 12.05.2009 15:02 •
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In the last of this four part series, Sorious Samura is in a fishing village near Freetown in Sierra Leone.
Datum: 11.05.2009 08:46 •
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Exploring the world of an extraordinary individual. This week, we travel to Colombia to experience a day in the life of Cartagena?s Martin Murrillo ? mobile cart librarian and self-taught teacher.
Datum: 08.05.2009 10:14 •
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Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression.
He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages dev...
Datum: 05.05.2009 13:49 •
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Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura heads back to his native West Africa for a trip through his homeland of Sierra Leone and other neighbouring countries.
In part three Sorious returns to Liberia to follow the journey of a 26-year old woman called ?Black Diamond? as she travels hundreds of m...
Datum: 01.05.2009 14:30 •
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Just one year ago Wall Street bankers enjoyed widespread regard, even veneration, in American public life, respected as people who understood the world of money and finance. Twelve months on the story is very different with many of those bankers having experienced a meterioric fall from grace. So wh...
Datum: 01.05.2009 08:06 •
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at the legacy of scientists from the Islamic world. In part three of The Secret Scientists, he talks about the work of Abu Rayhan Biruni, who calculated the Earth's circumference with an incredible degree of accuracy.
Jim explores how the Christian Crusades, the inv...
Datum: 29.04.2009 09:49 •
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Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for scientists in the European renaissance.
Datum: 21.04.2009 14:53 •
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Sorious Samura takes four journeys that explore the challenges and contradictions of life in modern West Africa. In Part One, we hear about Cletus Anaaya and his efforts to stop the widespread killing of so-called 'spirit children' in northern Ghana.
Datum: 20.04.2009 10:30 •
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Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for scientists in the European renaissance.
Datum: 17.04.2009 10:02 •
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After one of Africa's most vicious conflicts - a war that claimed the lives of more than 200 thousand people and displaced a million others - can Liberia keep its peace?
Datum: 17.04.2009 09:05 •
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The Eritrean government is turning its country into a giant prison, according to new report released by Human Rights Watch. For this week's Assignment Pascale Harter travels to Sicily, where thousands of Eritrean refugees arrive every year, to ask why they're fleeing their country.
Datum: 16.04.2009 09:44 •
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In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered. They contained evidence of police atrocities during Guatemala's civil war. In programme 2 of this series, Gerry Northam continues his tour of the archives.
Datum: 13.04.2009 05:06 •
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In 2003 peace was declared between the Liberian government and rebel groups.
Datum: 10.04.2009 08:30 •
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Ten years after the war in Kosovo, Michael Montgomery returns to the region for Assignment. He investigates allegations of torture, kidnap and murder by the Kosovo Liberation Army both during and after the war.
Datum: 08.04.2009 22:06 •
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In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered in a warehouse. They contain evidence of police atrocities during Guatemala's 36 year long civil war. Gerry Northam investigates the story of the archive?s chance discovery.
Datum: 06.04.2009 06:06 •
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Jared Thomas is an Aboriginal Australian. Born of mixed race parents. We follow his search for the nature of identity and see how it relates to a generation of young Aboriginal Australian men.
Datum: 03.04.2009 10:45 •
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For twenty five years, Turkey fought a dirty war with Kurdish separatist insurgents. Atrocities were committed on both sides but most of the 40 000 people killed were Kurds. Many thousands of deaths remain unexplained.
But now a high profile trial of suspected members of an alleged ultra nation...
Datum: 02.04.2009 08:06 •
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Mark Urban asks if Barack Obama's presidency will see substantial reform at the Pentagon.
Datum: 30.03.2009 12:29 •
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Richard Dowden joins the greatest of all African novelists, Chinua Achebe, on his first trip back to his homeland of Nigeria for many years.
Datum: 25.03.2009 10:48 •
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What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In the final programme Jane hears from people who have dared to think the unthinkable in managing old age.
Datum: 23.03.2009 10:46 •
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What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In programme three, Jane explores what happens when older people become frail or ill.
Datum: 20.03.2009 14:31 •
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What has become of Yiddish and how much of the language survives today?
Datum: 20.03.2009 10:05 •
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During the cold war, more than thirty west German women were prosecuted after been tricked into handing over secrets to Romeo spies sent by the Stasi, the East German secret police. For Assignment, Angus Crawford asks if twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, they deserve to be forgiven.
Datum: 19.03.2009 09:06 •
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In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud explores how terrorism, tourism and globalisation is affecting Bali's local politics.
Datum: 18.03.2009 11:44 •
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What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out.
In programme three, Jane explores what happens when older people become frail or ill.
Datum: 16.03.2009 08:06 •
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Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move across Europe. It has suffered a dramatic decline over the last century.
Datum: 13.03.2009 10:05 •
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In the run up to elections, Anita Barraud finds out why poverty and starvation are causing major problems for West Timor. Join her as she travels deep into the countryside and discovers malnutrition that rivals parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Datum: 10.03.2009 16:34 •
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What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets people from four continents to find out. In part two, she hears from older people facing financial challenges in Kenya, Brazil, the UK and the US.
Datum: 09.03.2009 11:13 •
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Who?s responsible for our current economic meltdown? Financial institutions around the globe are now sitting on mega losses ? they hold assets worth a fraction of what they paid for them. But one set of organizations ? credit rating agencies - gave these institutions false confidence to buy these ...
Datum: 05.03.2009 09:06 •
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Trafalgar Square is a must-see destination on any tourist map of the UK. But beyond the statues and clicking cameras are the lives and stories of those for whom this space exists as an everyday environment.
Datum: 04.03.2009 15:06 •
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Anita Barraud explores how peace and democracy is working in Aceh, a region that has endured dictatorship, decades of war and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
Datum: 04.03.2009 12:07 •
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What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In programme one, Jane meets some extraordinary women who?ve given old age a whole new meaning.
Datum: 02.03.2009 10:40 •
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It's a year since Kenya's political rivals signed a power-sharing agreement to end the violence which broke out after presidential elections there. In this week's Assignment Pascale Harter travels back to the scene of some of the worst violence to see if the power-sharing government really has rec...
Datum: 26.02.2009 09:06 •
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In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud travels to four different regions of the country to take a closer look at its politics and democracy.
Datum: 24.02.2009 12:24 •
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Lucy Ash looks at a successful prison reform scheme in Kansas that is turning crack dealers into respectable businessmen. She also visits Italy where a maximum security jail has become Tuscany's most exclusive eatery.
Join Lucy on the final stop on her global journey looking at innovative ways to c...
Datum: 16.02.2009 11:02 •
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As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the Iron Curtain. However, an underground culture grew which used ingenious ways to discover the Beatles' music. Paul Gambaccini reveals the extraordinary ways the Beatles' music was listened to in the Soviet Union dur...
Datum: 13.02.2009 08:30 •
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Lucy Ash looks at why allowing prisoners to raise puppies has proved to be a successful way of bringing out their caring, and more emotive side. Join her on her global journey as she looks at innovative ways of cutting crime.
Datum: 06.02.2009 12:44 •
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Worldwide, the illegal trade in wildlife is worth up to $25 billion US a year. Australia is one of the countries counting the cost as its rare birds and reptiles are targeted by international criminal gangs. Sharon Mascall tracks this trade across Australia and speaks to investigators, customs offi...
Datum: 06.02.2009 08:30 •
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Nadene Ghouri goes undercover to expose the trade in children by some charities registered in the United States and operating as businesses in Liberia.
Datum: 05.02.2009 09:06 •
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As prison numbers in Britain continue to soar, what can be done to stop criminals re-offending? In part one, Lucy Ash finds out if creativity can help to cut crime.
Datum: 30.01.2009 17:15 •
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This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. In programme three, two newspaper deliverers in New Delhi, India take us on their daily cycle route.
Datum: 30.01.2009 08:30 •
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At the end of last year, violent clashes broke out in Jos in central Nigeria after a disputed local election. Christian and Muslim mobs took to the streets burning mosques, churches and homes. Hundreds were killed: in some of the worst incidents, children were burnt inside their schools. This is jus...
Datum: 29.01.2009 12:09 •
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Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he leaves office. In part two, he looks at how President Bush's failures paved the way for Barack Obama.
Datum: 26.01.2009 10:20 •
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This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. Programme two visits Kampala, Uganda where the bicycle is being used as a wheelchair for disabled users.
Datum: 23.01.2009 08:30 •
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Is the UN's Human Rights Council fulfilling its role to protect the most vulnerable from human rights abuses or a cabal fixated on protecting itself?
Datum: 20.01.2009 16:30 •
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This series features three portraits of the use of the bicycle around the world. The first programme looks at a new bicycle system in Paris, France called the Velib.
Datum: 16.01.2009 08:30 •
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Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he leaves office. In part one, he looks at how 9/11 changed American foreign policy and how the world viewed the US.
Datum: 15.01.2009 16:05 •
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Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of America?s leading public intellectuals. In this investigative feature he is on a mission to find out what Barack Obama is like as an intellectual.
Datum: 13.01.2009 14:28 •
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A US president has a constitutional and inalienable right to grant pardons. He usually does this just before he leaves office. It is a mysterious and controversial business - notorious past pardons include Jimmy Hoffa, Caspar Weinberger, Ford's pardon of Nixon, Patty Hearst and fugitive billionaire ...
Datum: 08.01.2009 14:30 •
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On 1st January 2009, Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of its revolution. All over the world, this Caribbean nation has cultivated a name-recognition and influence much greater than its size.
Datum: 05.01.2009 10:13 •
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Peter White tells the story of Louis Braille, the founder of Braille, and the story behind his invention, in the light of new technology for the blind, which threatens to make it redundant.
Datum: 02.01.2009 10:05 •
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As leaders in Europe and America struggle to re-write the rules of international finance following the credit crunch, we investigate the roots and role of risk.
Datum: 29.12.2008 16:13 •
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In Brand Cuba, Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have kept Cuba alive in the public imagination over such a long period.
Datum: 29.12.2008 10:05 •
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Throughout much of the Christian world Christmas is the time when Santa Claus dominates ? a fat jolly chap who is our friend.
Datum: 26.12.2008 10:05 •
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There are more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world, more than half of whom are stateless. In this year when Israel has been marking its 60th anniversary many Palestinians have been reflecting on the event that for them meant exile. The 'naqba', or catastrophe, is how they describe...
Datum: 25.12.2008 09:06 •
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While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. Their only hope of a wage has been far from home in the factories and building sites of the boomtowns.
Datum: 23.12.2008 11:26 •
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Timeline is the programme where the past sheds light on recent events though use of archive material.
Datum: 19.12.2008 11:53 •
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In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme four focuses on the Prague Spring and the subsequent Russian invasion, but also anti-communist rumblings in Poland and China.
Datum: 19.12.2008 10:51 •
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Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on the constant violence and the struggle to bring development to the region. Now she's returned, one year on, to see if there's been any progress.
Datum: 18.12.2008 09:06 •
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While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty.
Datum: 17.12.2008 10:06 •
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In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme three looks at how race and nationalism finally came to a head in 1968.
Datum: 12.12.2008 12:52 •
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In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination of archive material of events that have gone before.
Datum: 12.12.2008 10:06 •
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And now Assignment asks whether Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. In the run-up to next month?s crucial vote on a new constitution, Daniel Schweimler reports from the wealthy and white-dominated city of Santa Cruz, where the dispute over the policies of the country?s indigenous President Evo Mor...
Datum: 10.12.2008 13:59 •
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Over the past two-and-a-half years, former BBC Beijing correspondent Carrie Gracie has been witnessing the upheaval as White Horse village in rural China is turned into a city.
In this series Carrie returns to find out how the residents feel about the changes. In the programme one, Carrie meet...
Datum: 10.12.2008 08:06 •
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In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme two captures the student unrest around the world.
Datum: 05.12.2008 12:01 •
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Five years after doing a series of reports on HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, Emma Joseph retraces her steps for Assignment to find out whether the region still has one of the highest infection rates in the world, and to meet some of the people she first encountered in 2003.
Datum: 04.12.2008 09:06 •
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In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination of archive material of events that have gone before.
Datum: 03.12.2008 16:02 •
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Father Henri Des Roziers is a Dominican priest and human rights lawyer working in Pará, one of Brazil's most violent regions.
Nick Maes is given a privileged insight into the life of this man, his faith and the cause he would give his life for.
Datum: 03.12.2008 08:06 •
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In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Starting with the Vietnam War and the assasination of Bobby Kennedy, this series reflects on why 1968 was significant in world history.
Datum: 28.11.2008 12:30 •
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This series looks at the growth of street art. Programme two focuses on Sao Paulo, Brazil through the eyes of a street artist, Nunca. Can Nunca transfer his counter-cultural message to the Tate Modern gallery in London?
Datum: 28.11.2008 11:44 •
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Rupa Jha explores what ex-militants in Kashmir and their families expect from the future.
Datum: 25.11.2008 16:55 •
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This series looks at street art in two very different cities: New York and Sao Paulo. Each episode profiles a rising artist, and speaks to people on the street to discover how attitudes to graffiti and street art vary from city to city.
Episode 1 looks at New York through the eyes of Elbow-Toe.
Datum: 20.11.2008 17:25 •
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The Neapolitan crime syndicate, the Camorra, has said it wants a young writer dead by Christmas, because he has exposed how they really do business. Increasingly it's brave individuals - not the Italian state - who are taking on the Camorra, by breaking the code of silence and stripping away the gla...
Datum: 20.11.2008 09:06 •
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Rupa Jha talks to former militants in Kashmir and their families about why they took up arms and the reasons behind giving up violence. What are the challenges of returning to normal society?
Datum: 18.11.2008 17:39 •
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You might think that copper is just another metal, but in fact it is a vital substance. Discover why, without this metal, even the evolution of life itself would be radically different.
Datum: 14.11.2008 08:00 •
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Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the southern coast of the United States in 2005. Many survivors were rehoused by the federal government in travel trailers which they claim made them sick. For Assignment, Rob Walker travels to Mississippi...
Datum: 13.11.2008 09:06 •
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Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.
Datum: 12.11.2008 09:05 •
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Four, In A Wild Goose Chase, the focus is on wild geese.
Datum: 10.11.2008 16:01 •
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Three, The Elephant's Journey, Brett Westwood looks at African elephant migration.
Datum: 10.11.2008 15:45 •
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Two, Silent Landscapes, focuses on how environmental change is affecting some popular bird species.
Datum: 10.11.2008 15:31 •
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Discover just how important cows have been civilisation, all around the world.
Datum: 07.11.2008 08:00 •
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Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.
Datum: 05.11.2008 09:30 •
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part One, The Mexican Wave, the focus is on sustaining the Orange Monarch butterfly.
Datum: 04.11.2008 17:00 •
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The South Ossetian conflict not only sparked a military war between Russia and Georgia, but a propaganda battle. James Rodgers examines this ongoing media war between Georgia and Russia - featuring archive clips of key events and interviews.
Datum: 03.11.2008 10:39 •
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Neil McCarthy pieces together a story of rats, famine and insurrection from the 1950's to present day, in remote hills of North East India.
Datum: 31.10.2008 08:00 •
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Andrew Purcell investigates the growing homelessness crisis among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States. The programme looks at how these 'lost veterans' struggle to reintegrate into civilian society, and how they feel abandoned by the US military.
Datum: 29.10.2008 10:06 •
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Allan Little presents an appraisal of the man described as America's Apostle of Freedom: Thomas Jefferson, author of the founding document of the American Republic.
Datum: 27.10.2008 11:25 •
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As the global banking crisis deepens, a flood of multi-million dollar lawsuits is beginning to shed light into some of the darkest corners of international finance. The BBC's Michael Robinson investigates these cases and what they reveal about the present disaster.
Datum: 24.10.2008 09:00 •
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Robert Hodierne looks at 'The Peers Inquiry', which was the US Army's own investigation into what really happened in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam war.
Datum: 21.10.2008 15:52 •
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The Saudi Interior Ministry and the US Military in Iraq have offered al - Qaeda sympathisers and detainees therapy and job training. Owen Bennett-Jones asks if this can really prevent someone from supporting al-Qaeda.
Datum: 20.10.2008 08:35 •
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This special documentary exploring life in Chicago's inner city is based on Ghetto Life 101, an acclaimed 1993 documentary featuring LeAlan Jones and LLoyd Newman, two teenagers who brought US radio listeners face to face with life in of one of Chicago's worst housing projects. Jones has revisited t...
Datum: 17.10.2008 09:15 •
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A series of protests against Indian rule in Kashmir has left more than 30 people dead since August. Thousands of people have died in the violence there since 1989. For Assignment George Arney travels to Kashmir to speak to young people caught up in the protests and discovers that for the first tim...
Datum: 16.10.2008 08:06 •
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Robert Hodierne reports on the recordings revealing the extent of the US Military's cover up of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Datum: 15.10.2008 09:10 •
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Owen Bennett-Jones tests the big promises governments have made about the financial war on terror.
Datum: 10.10.2008 13:54 •
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What is the state of health of the Italian nation today? Is Italy in crisis or undergoing a new Renaissance? Italian journalist Annalisa Piras returns home to find out.
Datum: 10.10.2008 07:06 •
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In Mexico, the government has deployed thousands of troops in an attempt to break up the powerful drug cartels operating in the country. Emilio San Pedro travels to the border city of Tijuana and profiles a community under pressure from one of Mexico's most violent gangs.
Datum: 09.10.2008 08:06 •
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In Iran, the constant drugs crisis and loss of skilled workers contrast with a lively internet scene which harbours poets, political dissidents and religious leaders.
Datum: 08.10.2008 07:00 •
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Owen Bennett-Jones looks at al Qaeda's hard power and military capabilities in its chosen key battlegrounds: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Datum: 03.10.2008 15:21 •
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The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Mauritius for part four of this series.
Datum: 02.10.2008 12:21 •
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In Assignment, Robert Walker travels to East Africa to investigate a secret detention programme - involving the transfer of suspected terrorists across three countries: Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
Datum: 02.10.2008 08:06 •
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This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by conservatism and an ailing economy. In the first programme, we hear how the war with Iraq acted as a continuation of the Revolution.
Datum: 01.10.2008 07:00 •
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Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this series in four parts.
Datum: 29.09.2008 15:40 •
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Seven years into the global war on terror, is al Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this four-part series.
Datum: 26.09.2008 14:50 •
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The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Seychelles for part three of this series.
Datum: 25.09.2008 10:09 •
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Pakistan's government is locked in an intense battle with Islamist militants for control of areas on its northern border with Afghanistan. For Assignment Owen Bennett-Jones visits the Khyber pass - the main supply route for the American and other western forces based in Afghanistan - and discovers t...
Datum: 25.09.2008 08:06 •
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Robin Lustig travels to Phoenix, Arizona, the home of Senator John McCain, to ask two ordinary voters about their most pressing concerns in the forthcoming US presidential election.
Datum: 24.09.2008 10:04 •
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A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and looted art in Charle's Wheeler quest to solve a 50-year mystery.
Datum: 22.09.2008 07:00 •
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The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Sri Lanka for part two of this series.
Datum: 18.09.2008 10:41 •
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As the insurgency in Afghanistan grows, Kate Clark travels undercover to investigate who's arming the Taleban. Meeting commanders and arms dealers, she finds the Taleban are getting their weapons from some suprising sources.
Datum: 17.09.2008 23:06 •
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We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office, but what does the electorate itself want? Robin Lustig travels to the candidates' home states to meet four Americans to find out what issues have determined their choices.
Datum: 17.09.2008 08:00 •
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How are the Marwari traders managing as India goes global? Can a business culture based on traditional values survive as India's economy changes?
Datum: 15.09.2008 07:00 •
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The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Maldives for part one of this series.
Datum: 11.09.2008 09:57 •
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Mukhul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become a major global economic and political force.
Datum: 08.09.2008 07:00 •
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Ruth Evans tells the extraordinary story of 11 women brought together on the internet by one man's sperm.
Datum: 04.09.2008 09:37 •
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Haiti, one of the very poorest countries in the world, has been hit hard by soaring food prices. Earlier this year riots led to the sacking of the prime minister. In Assignment, Orin Gordon looks at the ongoing struggle for Haitians to feed themselves.
Datum: 04.09.2008 08:06 •
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John McCain: a profile of the man who talks of honour and patriotic duty and admits having a legendary short fuse.
Datum: 01.09.2008 07:30 •
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Win Scutt finds out how the maritime treasure hunting industry has boomed in recent years.
Datum: 29.08.2008 11:35 •
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Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains of their loved ones killed during the country's brutal civil war of the 1930s. For Assignment, Mike Williams travels to Spain to visit an exhumation of bodies and asks if the gov...
Datum: 28.08.2008 08:06 •
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BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the terrorist leader's agenda.
Datum: 26.08.2008 14:59 •
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Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in the US presidential election.
Datum: 25.08.2008 08:00 •
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International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold without any obstacle. Can a new UNESCO convention bring some order?
Datum: 21.08.2008 14:31 •
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The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may live in the world. In Britain's main cities, police and politicians say a worrying trend has developed where some young people are now carrying and using both knives and guns at an ...
Datum: 21.08.2008 08:06 •
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BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of the DR Congo on a journey to find out why so many people have died and continue to die in that country.
Datum: 20.08.2008 08:30 •
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The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-building and peacekeeping.
Datum: 18.08.2008 07:00 •
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What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve? Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical in their impact?
Datum: 14.08.2008 10:54 •
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During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by the security forces. Many of the women detained gave birth in detention centres before being killed and their babies were given to military families to bring up. Now, as...
Datum: 14.08.2008 08:06 •
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BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past decade.
Datum: 13.08.2008 09:00 •
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Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy ...
Datum: 08.08.2008 14:15 •
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Freedom of information is well on the way to being seen as an essential prerequisite for a modern democracy. But there's almost always a backlash from politicians and officials.
Datum: 07.08.2008 12:28 •
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In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members of the country's Muslim community are working from within to turn America into an Islamic state. This group of right wing thinkers believe this so-called 'Soft Jihad' is being carried out in schools, universitie...
Datum: 07.08.2008 08:06 •
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Will there be a return to the dreaded days of "stagflation" with weak growth and rising inflation. Can economic policymakers find a way to deal with this double danger? Or is further pain inevitable?
Datum: 06.08.2008 10:15 •
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The United States is due to have the first billion-dollar election in its history. The BBC's Steve Evans presents this two-part investigation into election spending done in collaboration with the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC.
Datum: 01.08.2008 10:38 •
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After the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the transfer of land from white to black was a key ANC promise - a proud calling card to correct the injustices of apartheid. But many critics argue that the reform programme has gone badly wrong. For Assignment Rosie Goldsmith reports on the struggle ...
Datum: 31.07.2008 08:09 •
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With the world's economy now threatened by what some believe is the most dangerous crisis since the depression of the 1930s, Michael Robinson looks at the deepening international financial turmoil.
Datum: 29.07.2008 15:38 •
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In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels in sport.
Datum: 25.07.2008 13:38 •
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In May violence against African immigrants exploded across South Africa. Two months on thousands are still displaced, living in camps and shelters. Robert Walker travels to one of the townships in Johannesburg where the attacks started and asks whether the violence could happen again.
Datum: 23.07.2008 08:06 •
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Jill McGivering explores whether China is doing enough to provide healthcare to 1.3 billion people and what it can learn from the struggles of the developed world.
Datum: 23.07.2008 08:00 •
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Russell Fuller follows the difficult journeys of six hopefuls from around the world in the run up to the Beijing Olympics.
Datum: 18.07.2008 12:16 •
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In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels in sport.
Datum: 18.07.2008 10:48 •
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An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being defrauded by conmen posing as talent scouts from English Premiership clubs. Victims are duped into parting with thousands of pounds in the false belief that they are paying an official fee for a trial to play with th...
Datum: 17.07.2008 08:06 •
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Part One: Jill McGivering compares two very different free health systems in the developed world: the British NHS and that of the US state of Massachusetts.
Datum: 15.07.2008 15:57 •
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In the second part of this series, Kate Clark reports from those provinces where an opium ban is in force, but farmers are feeling the pressure.
Datum: 11.07.2008 13:14 •
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The dynamics of the old world and the new world are changing and the balance of economic systems is shifting. Martin Wolf of the Financial Times asks leading economists how important is the American financial cycle to the rest of the world now?
Datum: 10.07.2008 16:45 •
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In a multi billion dollar deal China has promised to rebuild DR Congo's crumbling infrastructure in exchange for a valuable slice of Congo's vast mineral wealth.
What's being called the Contract of the Century was negotiated in secret and has left some people in the country wondering who stands...
Datum: 10.07.2008 08:06 •
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China says hosting the Olympics has accelerated national reforms, technological advances and greater freedoms overall but Gerry Northam investigates claims that life has gotten worse for China's poor.
Datum: 09.07.2008 08:39 •
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Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how effective attempts to control it have been.
Datum: 07.07.2008 08:55 •
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Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic on the agenda for the next meeting in Japan. In programme two of the series Health for All, Uduak Amimo asks is there enough political will to combat maternal mortality?
Datum: 04.07.2008 09:14 •
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As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates China's claims of 'vigorous growth in the public practice of religion' but he discovers people are still being persecuted and oppressed for practising religion.
Datum: 02.07.2008 09:00 •
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In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township outside the capital, Pretoria, to explore what really lay behind the recent attacks by South Africans on foreigners.
Datum: 27.06.2008 15:53 •
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Is health for all a fact or just fiction? Helen Sharp asks if the world has the will, people and money to deliver basic good health to everyone.
Datum: 27.06.2008 07:00 •
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This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and ears of the few BBC journalists who managed to get into the country after the disaster. Hear the story of the cyclone unfold told by those who witnessed it first hand. That's Reporting The Cyclone, from Assignment t...
Datum: 26.06.2008 08:06 •
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In 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi. Over 200 people died and thousands were injured. It features an extraordinary interview with the FBI agent who tracked down and questioned a suspected al-Qaeda bomber. It was Osama Bin Laden's first major strike in his jihad aga...
Datum: 25.06.2008 09:05 •
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In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore how privilege and access to resources is increasingly being seen as an issue of colour.
Datum: 23.06.2008 09:17 •
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Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the culinary heritage of a devastated city.
Datum: 20.06.2008 07:00 •
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Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half of all its professional players come from overseas - and some 40 per cent of them from the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. For Assignment David Goldblatt visits Haiti ...
Datum: 19.06.2008 08:06 •
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In the third part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates The Paris Plot, the hijacking of a plane in Algiers on its way to Paris; a plan to use a plane as a weapon of mass destruction.
Datum: 18.06.2008 09:00 •
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Fourteen years after liberation and 60 years since the beginning of what was then 'apartheid', Audrey Brown explores and uncovers the extent to which race still plays a part in everyday life for those living in South Africa.
Datum: 13.06.2008 10:10 •
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More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters, tells the stories of the people living in Xieng Khuang in Laos and how they survive in a land still littered with unexploded ordnance.
Datum: 12.06.2008 13:06 •
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The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter of anti-democratic, right wing radicalism. And his election has come at a time of mounting ethnic tension in Italy. As Christian Fraser now discovers in Assignment, there are fears that Rome could be about to suffer...
Datum: 12.06.2008 08:06 •
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In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how two events in 1987 contributed to the beginnings of the road to peace in Northern Ireland.
Datum: 11.06.2008 09:00 •
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The powerful story of a young Iranian woman called Leila, sold into prostitution at the age of nine by her own family and sentenced to hang aged 18.
Datum: 06.06.2008 12:01 •
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Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to artists, dancers, novelists and other Argentinians about why psychotherapy and tango have such a pervasive hold on the Argentine mind and soul.
Datum: 05.06.2008 14:31 •
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The town of Auroville in southern India was built in 1968 on the basis of a utopian ideal - that a community could live in peace and harmony without having to worry about food and shelter.
But forty years on there are unsettling allegations of abuse emerging from the City of Dawn. For Assignment...
Datum: 05.06.2008 08:06 •
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In the first part of this series, Peter Taylor reveals how events unfolded in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris which ends with a bid to rescue hostages from Idi Amin's Uganda
Datum: 04.06.2008 09:05 •
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In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of torture by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Was the torture the work of a few rogue soldiers, or officially approved by the Pentagon?
Datum: 30.05.2008 17:24 •
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Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the family's German neighbour, who was part of 'Team Tom' which organized the negotiations.
Datum: 30.05.2008 07:00 •
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Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage them to abandon torture and oppression for political reform and human rights improvements.
Datum: 29.05.2008 11:09 •
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The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities markets are attracting major players now looking for somewhere to invest other than the dollar, banking or shares and how this has affected the price of food products around the world.
Datum: 29.05.2008 08:00 •
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In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year.
Datum: 27.05.2008 13:01 •
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For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system with the aid of a powerful set of economic levers handed to them after the World War 2. Last year, these levers came off in their hands. In this two-part series Robert Peston examines how the former supermen of glo...
Datum: 23.05.2008 16:04 •
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Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with the people who were personally involved in negotiations to free him, and who put their lives on hold to get him back.
Datum: 23.05.2008 07:30 •
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In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year.
Datum: 20.05.2008 14:02 •
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Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world.
Datum: 16.05.2008 16:49 •
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Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes from those who attempt to escape the tyranny of time.
Datum: 15.05.2008 18:00 •
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Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in Uzbekistan, was stabbed to death while returning home from a rehearsal. As the regime in Tashkent hardened it's line Mark Weil continued to challenge the authorities with his work. For Assignment Natalya Antelava asks...
Datum: 15.05.2008 08:06 •
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To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of Chico Mendes, the highly significant green activist who helped to galvanise the race to preserve the Amazon. Nick investigates what Chico Mendes achieved and gains exclusive access to his family.
Datum: 13.05.2008 14:30 •
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In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South Africa where since the end of Apartheid, personal security has become almost a national obsession; the number of private security firms has mushroomed.
Datum: 12.05.2008 08:31 •
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How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become unlikely, but permanent, residents of Hong Kong?
Datum: 09.05.2008 07:00 •
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Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly to America and then to Britain, in 1968.
Datum: 06.05.2008 11:18 •
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In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny goes to the Balkans to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes.
Datum: 05.05.2008 08:25 •
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Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, perhaps, be weathered.
Datum: 02.05.2008 08:55 •
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In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will ...
Datum: 01.05.2008 08:06 •
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In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will ...
Datum: 01.05.2008 08:06 •
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Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as ?The My Lai Massacre' and was covered up by the army for almost a year. In the second part of ?The My Lai Tapes?, presented by Robert Hodierne, you can hear for the first time, the taped recordings of th...
Datum: 29.04.2008 14:19 •
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As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the wholesale production of marijuana is posing a challenge to the US-led 'War on Drugs'.
Datum: 28.04.2008 11:00 •
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The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the United Nations' peacekeeping operations.
Datum: 28.04.2008 05:32 •
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The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast of their own inherited 'convict streak'
Datum: 24.04.2008 09:26 •
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Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at record levels in India. In a society where reverence and respect towards senior citizens has been a source of pride, Tinku Ray reports for Assignment on why things have changed in India.
Datum: 24.04.2008 08:06 •
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Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place. The victims were innocent Vietnamese civilians ? 504 mainly women, old men, children and babies. They were murdered, and in many cases, raped by US soldiers. This episode of the Vietnam War became known as 'The My Lai ...
Datum: 22.04.2008 10:10 •
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Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the peace during 2005 and 2007 when race riots tore at the fabric of French society.
Datum: 21.04.2008 08:30 •
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Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, describes his efforts to bring a cultural highlight in the midst of the election chaos in Zimbabwe.
Datum: 18.04.2008 08:30 •
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The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have stepped up attacks on the Ethiopian army and on the Somali transitional government it's backing. Ethiopia sent it's troops into Somalia at the end of 2006, to remove an Islamist movement - the Islamic Courts - from the ...
Datum: 17.04.2008 08:06 •
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Award winning poet Fred D?Aguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the scene of a mass shooting of students and staff one year ago. He lost a student in the tragedy and had, in the past taught the shooter. In this documentary Fred reflects on the events of that day and the poetry both ...
Datum: 16.04.2008 08:30 •
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China is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving Dollar-a-day poverty. But what uncertainties lie ahead now the Iron Bowl has been smashed? Mike Wooldrige reports.
Datum: 11.04.2008 19:38 •
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More than 65,000 grandparents in Canada are raising their grandchildren on their own, turning their lives upside down to raise a child for a second time.
Datum: 11.04.2008 08:00 •
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Dr Anne-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand investigates how the Chinese Communist Party has adapted its propaganda methods to suit the 21st century.
Datum: 09.04.2008 07:30 •
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John Simpson meets the ladies cracking down on spitting in Beijing before the Olympics and chats to the lady everyone's calling China's Oprah Winfrey on the set of the hit TV show Win in China
Datum: 07.04.2008 09:27 •
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Why do Ghanaians dream of living a better life abroad? What must change in Ghana for more Ghanaians to want to stay?
Datum: 04.04.2008 07:30 •
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The United States has long been home to violent gangs, from the Mafia to the Bloods and Crips. But recently, US authorities have warned of the dangers of a transnational, ultra-violent gang with its origins in Central America. The FBI has now opened an office in El Salvador to deal with the threat...
Datum: 03.04.2008 08:06 •
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For Iraqi Kurds these are the best times they have ever known. But can the desire for full independence be contained? Michael Goldfarb goes to Kirkuk disputed heart of northern Iraq's oil industry and the future source of wealth.
Datum: 02.04.2008 08:05 •
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Programme one: The Road From Tiananmen charts John Simpson's return to modern China 19 years after he witnessed the massacre of June 4 1989
Datum: 28.03.2008 17:27 •
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Shazia Khan investigates the agony of forced marriages in the UK and the risks of trying to escape it.
Datum: 28.03.2008 08:00 •
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Is it possible to legislate against deeply held beliefs? That's what the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hoping to do. They want to make it a criminal offence to accuse a child of being a witch. Many of the hundreds of children who are sleeping rough on the streets of the capit...
Datum: 27.03.2008 09:06 •
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John Simpson looks at the how the Iraq War has affected America's international role and reputation.
Datum: 26.03.2008 10:55 •
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In the first part of the series Return to Kurdistan, Michael Goldfarb follows the upheaval of Kurdistan through the eyes of his translator Ahmad Shawkat.
Datum: 26.03.2008 09:05 •
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With climate change bringing new threats of rising sea levels and increased rainfall, will luck and ingenuity continue to save the Netherlands from submersion?
Datum: 21.03.2008 08:00 •
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After the invasion of Iraq in 2003 hundreds of young American recruits were sent by Washington to help run the Coalition Provisional Authority, the body set up to administer Iraq. The CPA's tenure was widely criticised, as were its staff who, critics say, were simply political appointees with little...
Datum: 20.03.2008 09:06 •
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Nick Rankin enters cyber space to explore the world of intellectual piracy - the stealing of ideas.
Datum: 18.03.2008 10:50 •
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In Programme Three, Lyse Doucet looks at how the Iraq War changed the regional balance of power.
Datum: 17.03.2008 09:38 •
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In the 1980s Kathy Flower became the most famous face on Chinese television, as English teacher to millions of students long isolated from the outside world.
Now she returns to a very different country as it prepares to host the Beijing Olympics.
Datum: 13.03.2008 16:44 •
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According to US intelligence the Afghan president Hamid Karzai controls only 30 percent of Afghanistan, with the Taleban holding 10 percent. Most of the country is under local tribal control.
But building support among the tribes is now at the core of a new American counter-insurgency strategy. Th...
Datum: 13.03.2008 09:06 •
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Nick Rankin travels to Africa to find out how modern day pirates are ruling the high seas. From hijacking, kidnapping and ransoms, he finds out what is being done to combat the problem.
Datum: 12.03.2008 07:00 •
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Magdi Abdelhadi explores how the dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put in reverse as things went wrong in Iraq.
Datum: 10.03.2008 10:31 •
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In Programme Two Magdhi Abdulhadi looks at how the neocon dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put in reverse as things went wrong in Iraq.
Datum: 10.03.2008 08:30 •
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Sharon Mascall investigates the Australian mining industry where many inexperienced workers are lured by high wages but face harsh conditions, poor safety standards and an uncertain future.
Datum: 06.03.2008 16:39 •
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Jacob Zuma is one of the most powerful men in South Africa. He controls the ruling African National Congress and is poised to replace President Thabo Mbeki as head of state. But Jacob Zuma has a problem. Prosecutors say he's corrupt and hope to bring him to trial in August. Mr Zuma says the charges ...
Datum: 06.03.2008 09:06 •
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Programme One: BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power.
Datum: 03.03.2008 08:30 •
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Martin Sixsmith gets under the skin of the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential secret service in the world the "new KGB".
Datum: 29.02.2008 08:30 •
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Why are the British so scared of Islam? When the head of the Anglican church, Dr Rowan Williams, suggested that some aspects of Sharia law seemed unavoidable in parts of Britain, he prompted a storm of protest. For Assignment, Keith Adams explores what informs British public opinion about Islam.
Datum: 28.02.2008 09:06 •
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Russia has made more enemies than friends recently. Tim Whewell finds out where this new East, West confrontation is leading and why Russia is harking back to the days of the old Soviet Union.
Datum: 27.02.2008 09:06 •
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Tim Whewell investigates why a 'new' Cold War could be underway and if Russia and the US is embarking once again on a race for arms.
Datum: 25.02.2008 09:06 •
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Martin Sixsmith looks at Russia's fast growing and politically influential secret service.
Datum: 22.02.2008 08:30 •
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Soeren Kam is a former Danish SS Officer and one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive. Now 86 and living in Bavaria, Kam admitted taking part in the abduction and killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943. For Assignment Steve Rosenburg goes in search of Soeren Kam...
Datum: 21.02.2008 09:06 •
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Pipeline Power: Could Russia's vast energy sources possibly be the missiles of the future? Tim Whewell investigates why Russia's state energy company, Gazprom fell out with Ukraine.
Datum: 19.02.2008 17:34 •
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Nearly twenty years after the Cold War, there?s a new chill in relations between Russia and the West. Tim Whewell finds out what has happened to Russia's historic partnership with the Western Europe and the US.
Datum: 18.02.2008 09:06 •
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Owen Bennett-Jones examines the rise of Islamist militancy in Pakistan and the risk of the country being split apart.
Datum: 14.02.2008 15:39 •
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Why have so many of the hopes and aspirations of Pakistan's founders remained unfulfilled?
Datum: 13.02.2008 17:29 •
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In this second programme on Pain, Andrew North explores the strategies we use to survive pain, through expressing and suppressing it.
Datum: 13.02.2008 08:30 •
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It's been three months since cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh. BBC reporter, Siobhann Tighe returns to speak to some of the survivors. She also talks to government advisers about the vulnerability of Bangladesh and what can be done to be better prepared.
Datum: 11.02.2008 09:06 •
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Temple prostitutes: The ancient Hindu tradition of dedicating young girls to the temple has come up against the modern horrors of AIDS.
Datum: 07.02.2008 15:43 •
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With its functioning parliament, a booming oil economy and a small but well-trained army, the Kurdish area of Iraq appears to offer a model for other areas of the country. But Kate Clark discovers growing corruption and dissatisfaction with the region's government.
Datum: 07.02.2008 09:06 •
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In this two part series, former BBC Iraq correspondent, Andrew North takes a personal journey through his own experience of pain and that of others.
Datum: 06.02.2008 08:45 •
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What would happen if the government of Pakistan, one of the world's nuclear powers, were to collapse? Would extreme Islamist militants be able to get their hands on the country's nuclear weapons?
Datum: 04.02.2008 09:05 •
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Georgia, considered to be the birthplace of wine, risks losing its wine industry. How are the producers coping?
Datum: 31.01.2008 15:24 •
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This week's Assignment reports on the post election violence in Kenya which has claimed the lives of up to 900 people. The opposition claim that the poll was rigged and the violence, which began in Western Kenya, has spread to other parts of the country. Pascale Harter travelled to the town of Eld...
Datum: 31.01.2008 09:06 •
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In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on education in Ghana.
Datum: 29.01.2008 16:42 •
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The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art dying out?
Datum: 24.01.2008 17:27 •
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The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: Returning home.
Datum: 24.01.2008 14:01 •
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Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Eboue to Europe to make their fortune. Only a handful succeed whilst many more fall into the hands of unscrupulous clubs and agents who exploit them. Henry Bonsu investigates the growth in what has b...
Datum: 24.01.2008 09:06 •
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In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on elder people in India.
Datum: 22.01.2008 16:01 •
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The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: The Journey.
Datum: 17.01.2008 16:53 •
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Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II
Datum: 17.01.2008 15:34 •
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Simon Cox tries to track down the criminals who plague us with spam emails offering everything from get rich schemes to products to improve our sex lives.
Datum: 17.01.2008 09:06 •
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In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The second programme focuses on Peru.
Datum: 15.01.2008 16:49 •
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Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part one: George from Cameroon starts his journey.
Datum: 11.01.2008 11:53 •
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At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art were secrety shipped back to Russia by the Soviet Army. Charles Wheeler now investigates their fate and the political row that still surrounds them in Looted Art.
Datum: 10.01.2008 14:24 •
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Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side. Gaming, like gambling, can become an addiction that has even led to death. Julian Pettifer reports.
Datum: 10.01.2008 10:53 •
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In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The first programme focuses on Kenya.
Datum: 08.01.2008 18:52 •
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The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the seemingly desperate attempts of bankers, regulators and politicians to prevent that happening.
Datum: 07.01.2008 11:33 •
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Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. How does she and the members of the Association of Women Victims of War find the strength to talk about the rapes and other horrors they endured?
Datum: 04.01.2008 09:52 •
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American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to death by American soldiers and military police in Bagram airbase. Were they rogue soldiers, or was the torture authorised at the highest levels of government?
Datum: 03.01.2008 17:29 •
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In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch.
Datum: 02.01.2008 10:22 •
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The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began.
Datum: 31.12.2007 10:37 •
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There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong? Steve Evans reports on the most controversial contractor, Blackwater, which has been criticised by the Iraqi government, American politicians and its own employee...
Datum: 27.12.2007 11:30 •
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Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIV/AIDS drug Maraviroc.
Datum: 21.12.2007 12:53 •
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Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.
Datum: 20.12.2007 15:17 •
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Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has become more and more isolated from the west. But ahead of the country?s first Presidential election since 2000, our Central Asia correspondent Natalia Antelava made a secret trip across the state, recording her impre...
Datum: 19.12.2007 15:17 •
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Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new radio station is being installed as part of Indonesia's 68H network. 68H has introduced electricity by building a dam to power the station in the village. How did 68H get around censorship under Suharto? And why is ...
Datum: 19.12.2007 11:39 •
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Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with the agendas of blogs? In part two of 'Press for Freedom', we talk to Iraqi blogger Salam Pax and others who have delivered on-the-ground viewpoints in regions where the government would have otherwise silenced them. ...
Datum: 19.12.2007 11:24 •
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What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? BBC's Alan Little investigates.
Datum: 17.12.2007 09:53 •
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A new series which brings neglected but important stories to the airwaves. Part three - Kurds in the Middle: Compared with the violence and chaos to the south, Kurdish Northern Iraq has been a success story. Its security forces maintain order and its Parliament is pressing for inward investment to ...
Datum: 13.12.2007 18:16 •
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BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, corporations and the new wave of internet publishing.
Datum: 12.12.2007 09:47 •
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The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, but is such a thing really possible? Alan Little investigates.
Datum: 10.12.2007 10:44 •
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Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9, later forced into a temporary marriage, and then sentenced to hang at the age of 18.
She was finally reprieved, but what does her story tell us about Iran's ability to legally protect its own children.
Datum: 07.12.2007 15:40 •
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Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the United Nations as the fifth poorest country in the world. Grant Ferrett investigates.
Datum: 07.12.2007 11:40 •
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Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political psyche.
Datum: 03.12.2007 11:11 •
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Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover the victims of a brutal and under-reported war.
Datum: 29.11.2007 16:23 •
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Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip. Israel and Egypt responded by closing their borders with Gaza. Magdi Abdelhadi travelled to the Gaza Strip to see how the 1.5 million Palestinians living there are coping.
Datum: 29.11.2007 12:02 •
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Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics.
Datum: 26.11.2007 13:51 •
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Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi charities.
Datum: 23.11.2007 11:09 •
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This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet. It tells the extraordinary story of a middle-aged factory worker who undergoes a virtual and very real transformation after he goes online - a transformation which ends in murder.
Datum: 22.11.2007 10:49 •
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The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.
Datum: 21.11.2007 13:21 •
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In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.
Datum: 20.11.2007 13:44 •
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The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In the final part of the series, Laura explores the degree to which Americans are speaking out and altering their lifestyles in the face of global warming.
Datum: 19.11.2007 00:06 •
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In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax. Maurice visits Zambia to examine what has happened to the money generated by the country's booming copper indust...
Datum: 16.11.2007 12:24 •
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Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own puritanical form of Islam to every corner of the globe?
Datum: 16.11.2007 10:23 •
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Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy sickness. The results for unborn children were devastating. Many of those affected have been compensated - but not thalidomiders in Spain. Geoff Adams-Spink investigates why.
Datum: 15.11.2007 11:50 •
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The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.
Datum: 12.11.2007 15:08 •
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The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In this episode: Laura reports on General Electric. Once pilloried as a polluter (and taken to court for dumping waste in the Hudson River), the industry giant, under the lead...
Datum: 12.11.2007 00:06 •
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In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of their governments' response to climate change ? from the USA, Indonesia, Brazil and the UK.
Datum: 09.11.2007 10:47 •
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The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.
Datum: 07.11.2007 11:20 •
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The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.
Datum: 05.11.2007 11:29 •
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The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.
Datum: 05.11.2007 11:13 •
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The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In this episode: Laura finds out how the US could retreat from its role as the biggest polluter on the planet.
Datum: 05.11.2007 00:06 •
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South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world. There are more than 54,000 reported rapes every year - and most rapes go unreported. David Goldblatt investigates what's behind this violence.
Datum: 01.11.2007 11:44 •
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In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the beginning of the Biafran War, and speaks to two of the main protagonists.
Datum: 31.10.2007 10:32 •
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In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto did a deal this month. She told her suppprters to support his bid for the Presidency. He in return dropped corrpution charges bought by his government against her. This paved the way to her return to Pakistan ...
Datum: 29.10.2007 23:06 •
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We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether she could still face charges, despite the deal she has just struck with President Musharraf.
Datum: 29.10.2007 09:54 •
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Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes face to face with the military leader who imprisoned him 40 years ago.
Datum: 24.10.2007 08:56 •
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In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana where he experiences the transport system and learns about the demise of the Amerindian culture.
Datum: 19.10.2007 10:38 •
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Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil war how well is the city functioning?
Datum: 19.10.2007 10:28 •
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Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia. Why is it too difficult to make Kweyol the island's official language?
Datum: 19.10.2007 09:11 •
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China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even enabling the re-opening of an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota.
Datum: 18.10.2007 00:06 •
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Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses on the special relation with Angola and its oil.
Datum: 17.10.2007 00:06 •
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Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly provoking a confrontation with the US.
Datum: 16.10.2007 00:06 •
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Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in China will fuel a new arms race in the Pacific.
Datum: 15.10.2007 00:06 •
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Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that has more than 700 different languages and ethnic groups.
Datum: 12.10.2007 10:54 •
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Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war crimes - yet many of those accused are now beyond the reach of prosecutors because of an amnesty the warlords themselves voted in. What impact is this having on the survivors?
Datum: 11.10.2007 10:04 •
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Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in India, so that those vulnerable patients who can least afford to spend money on unproven therapies can have genuine grounds for hope.
Datum: 10.10.2007 10:00 •
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Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and how the mobile phone industry prevented a severe recession in the country.
Datum: 07.10.2007 23:06 •
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Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was killed in 1966, paint a vivid picture of the young soldier?s life. How do his experiences compare with soldiers in today's conflicts?
Datum: 05.10.2007 09:09 •
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Assignment reports on the fate of thousands of migrants from eastern Europe, who come to Britain to find work. Even though they are in the UK legally, they're often exploited by gangmasters who ignore employment laws, and sometimes don't even pay their employees.
Datum: 04.10.2007 10:35 •
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Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Are the clinics offering genuine treatments at the cutting edge of science, or merely taking advantage of the vulnerable?
Datum: 03.10.2007 10:18 •
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The two week uprising in Burma has been ruthlessly put down by the Burmese military. The protests appear to be over. What lay behind the uprising, and why is the Burmese junta so resistant to pressure to reform?
Datum: 01.10.2007 11:11 •
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Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war. Mike Wooldridge investigates its hopes for peace.
Datum: 01.10.2007 10:13 •
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Assignment reports on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea - home to one of the oldest Christian churches in the world, dating back 1,600 years. Thousands have fled torture and arrest to take refuge in neighbouring Ethiopia.
Datum: 28.09.2007 18:16 •
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Robin Denselow tells the story of the Zimbabwean band The Bhundu Boys. From their triumphs in the charts to the tragedy of losing two members to HIV/Aids.
Datum: 28.09.2007 10:56 •
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John McCarthy looks at how the Kaduna Declaration in Kaduna, Nigeria, has had some success in bringing Muslims and Christians together amidst violence.
Datum: 26.09.2007 10:00 •
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Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war. Mike Wooldridge investigates its hopes for peace.
Datum: 24.09.2007 10:08 •
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Karin Wells investigates controversial new laws in Poland that require over 35s to prove they never collaborated with Communists.
Datum: 21.09.2007 10:15 •
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Owen Bennett-Jones visits two of the world's leading educational establishments - Harvard University and Westminster School - to ask how they get such good results.
Datum: 19.09.2007 11:44 •
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Assignment reports on how a once model public housing project in Liverpool, has become terrorised by young criminal gangs - who are believed to be responsible for the murder of an 11 year old boy.
Datum: 19.09.2007 11:28 •
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Gavin Esler tells the story of Bill Clinton's controversial and colourful presidency, from epic victories to personal turmoil. The final part addresses the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Datum: 17.09.2007 08:24 •
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Many ordinary people in Iraq continue to live in extraordianry circumstances. World Affairs coresspondent, Mike Woolridge follows the story of a taxi driver whose life has been turned upside down.
Datum: 14.09.2007 11:04 •
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We report on a miscarriage of justice in Japan - a case which has opened a debate about how the police question suspects, and why more than 99 per cent of those charged with a crime are then found guilty.
Datum: 13.09.2007 14:39 •
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Education matters - Owen Bennett-Jones visits educational establishments which have been judged to be the bes. This week he visits Finland which has been judged to have the best educational system in the world.
Datum: 12.09.2007 08:51 •
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Having won a second term, Clinton found new confidence when dealing with foreign policy. But then came revelations about Monica Lewinsky. How did events unfold?
Datum: 10.09.2007 10:40 •
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Business correspondent Steve Evans reports from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the leaders of the central banks met last week to discuss the current market crisis.
Datum: 07.09.2007 09:40 •
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Widespread woes about easy credit are thought to underlie the recent turbulence on global stock markets. What can be done to keep business prospering and to protect the wider economy?
Datum: 06.09.2007 09:20 •
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Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
Datum: 04.09.2007 23:01 •
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From authorising emergency bailout during the Mexican economic collapse to balancing the budget, Clinton's strategic use of the Presidential veto would enable his White House to start working again.
Datum: 03.09.2007 10:40 •
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In August 1986 Julie Tullis became the first British woman climber to reach the summit of K2. The tapes she recorded reveal her adventure.
Datum: 30.08.2007 23:01 •
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Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
Datum: 29.08.2007 09:00 •
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When William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States on 3 November 1992, hope was in the air. Though the honeymoon did not last long, it was at moments of great adversity that his political skills were at their greatest.
Datum: 27.08.2007 08:00 •
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Jane Little follows one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who goes back to be reunited with his mother and to marry a girl from his own Dinka tribe.
Datum: 23.08.2007 23:01 •
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Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
Datum: 22.08.2007 11:30 •
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Nick Caistor investigates the causes and effects of drug violence in Mexico, which is reaching alarming proportions in parts of the country.
Datum: 17.08.2007 10:50 •
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In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might become prosperous one more.
Datum: 16.08.2007 16:20 •
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Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at risk, to the country accused of being the main source.
Datum: 16.08.2007 08:00 •
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Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
Datum: 14.08.2007 13:40 •
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It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.
Datum: 10.08.2007 15:30 •
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In the first of two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers the causes behind the collapse of the once prosperous Zimbabwe.
Datum: 10.08.2007 14:20 •
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Rappers from Freetown, Sierra Leone, perform and talk about their songs, background and dreams for their music.
Datum: 10.08.2007 09:40 •
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Gabby O'Donnell goes to Ghana to meet some convicted drugs mules, and hears how they, as much as the users, can end up being the biggest victims in the multi-billion dollar drug trade.
Datum: 09.08.2007 09:00 •
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In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their own countries.
Children, sometimes as young as ten years old, are sent from villages to distant towns to be shut in as domestic servants.
Datum: 08.08.2007 08:40 •
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In South Africa, equality - on the basis of race, language, culture and sexual orientation - are central to the country's constitution.
Datum: 06.08.2007 09:00 •
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Datum: 03.08.2007 09:00 •
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Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a unique debate with some of the most senior and influential military figures responsible for the planning and execution of the war in Iraq.
Datum: 03.08.2007 07:40 •
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It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.
Datum: 01.08.2007 07:00 •
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In the tremendous upheaval of Indian partition in 1947, two complete strangers, one Muslim and one Hindu, help each other to survive.
Datum: 27.07.2007 07:00 •
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Paul Bakibinga explores some of the ways individuals, communities and governments are trying to tackle obesity.
Datum: 25.07.2007 07:00 •
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Ukraine and Moldova... Are thay caught in a no man's land between the EU and Russia?
Datum: 23.07.2007 11:00 •
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Homosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos. Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others?
Datum: 23.07.2007 07:00 •
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Ilana Rehavia travels to Japan to uncover what is behind the country's intricate and highly specific sex industry.
Datum: 19.07.2007 15:00 •
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Paul Bakibinga travels to the suburbs and townships of South Africa to meet people struggling with their weight, and to find out what lies behind the obesity explosion.
Datum: 18.07.2007 10:00 •
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Turkey seeks EU membership despite a fraught relationship with Europe.
Datum: 16.07.2007 11:00 •
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Two Ukranian women, classmates when they were at school in Kiev, married husbands in Israel and Lebanon, on different sides of the Middle Eastern political divide.
Datum: 13.07.2007 13:00 •
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The BBC?s Jonathan Dimbleby returns to Hong Kong ten years after the former colony?s handover to China to find that the desire for a move towards democracy still has a strong following.
Datum: 11.07.2007 08:00 •
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BBC Brussels correspondent Oana Lungescu presents the first of three programmes about the problems facing Serbia as it seeks EU membership.
Datum: 09.07.2007 09:00 •
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Edwige Sorgho compares the experiences and treatment of teenage mothers in Burkina Faso, West Africa and London, UK.
Datum: 06.07.2007 09:00 •
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Jonathan Dimbleby looks at how Hong Kong has changed in the ten years since it reverted to Chinese rule. Part one looks at the identity of Hong Kong.
Datum: 04.07.2007 09:00 •
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In this the final part of this series, Paddy Ashdown explores why it has been so difficult to see an end to the violence in Iraq.
Datum: 02.07.2007 09:00 •
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The "undertrials" of India are those who have committed a minor offence, and then spent years in jail waiting to appear in court. Rupa Jha travels to India to learn why people have got lost in the county's judicial system.
Datum: 28.06.2007 15:00 •
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Stalemate ensued towards the latter months of the civil war in El Salvador. As Paddy Ashdown explains, outside intervention from the UN helped bring the conflict to an end.
Datum: 25.06.2007 10:00 •
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Three Arab-American marines tell their stories and relive the hard lessons they've learned from their experiences.
Datum: 21.06.2007 13:00 •
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BBC Reporter Rob Broomby offers an unique insight into the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this episode: missing radioactive material in Georgia.
Datum: 18.06.2007 12:00 •
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BBC Reporter Rob Broomby offers an unique insight into the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this episode: Iran.
Datum: 18.06.2007 11:00 •
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The war in Bosnia left a legacy of deep inter-communal hatred, large numbers of displaced citizens and a ruined economy. Paddy Ashdown asks what slowed the peace process.
Datum: 18.06.2007 08:05 •
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Khaled Ezzelarab challenges Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem to talk to each other about the common themes of displacement that both sides have had to endure.
Datum: 15.06.2007 09:00 •
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Mark Gregory looks at how the USA is trying to squeeze the Iranian economy. The programme features an exclusive interview with Nick Burns, the US Under-Secretary in charge of Iran policy at the State Department.
Datum: 14.06.2007 09:00 •
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Mark Gregory investigates how the US government has been economically squeezing its enemies. In part one we examine North Korea
Datum: 12.06.2007 09:00 •
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Paddy Ashdown argues that Winning the Peace is much harder than winning a war. In part one he looks at Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War
Datum: 11.06.2007 09:00 •
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Haimo Li travels to China to find out how many traditional values the Mosuo have held onto, despite the invasion of tourism and popular culture.
Datum: 08.06.2007 08:00 •
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In the fourth and final part of this series to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1967 conflict in the Middle East, the Battle for the Golan Heights officially ends with a ceasefire.
Datum: 06.06.2007 09:00 •
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Israel conquers Jerusalem's Old City, holy to three faiths; the start of a Palestinian exodus across the West Bank to Jordan. Egypt loses the Sinai Desert to Israeli forces.
Datum: 04.06.2007 09:00 •
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Roma gypsies and their relationship with the Czech population.
Datum: 01.06.2007 09:00 •
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Advances - On 5 June, 1967, Israel launched the first air attacks on Egypt and Jordan. What happened in the hours that followed?
Datum: 30.05.2007 12:00 •
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Propaganda broadcasts from Egypt promise an easy victory.
Datum: 25.05.2007 15:00 •
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Ten BBC journalists each report on a story that has a big message about life on our planet. In this first episode: how the Colombian city of Medellin is now living a renaissance of peace and hope.
Datum: 25.05.2007 07:00 •
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The big banks of the world?s financial districts symbolise financial prowess and power. This is where money is made and is in plentiful supply.
Datum: 23.05.2007 09:00 •
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An insight into the armies of civilian soldiers, discovering who they are, why they are needed, what they do, and who they are accountable to.
Datum: 18.05.2007 16:00 •
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Two brothers, one an Evangelical Christian minister the other in a long-term gay relationship, are learning how to have a meaningful relationship, in spite of their conflicting beliefs.
Datum: 18.05.2007 10:00 •
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There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in the world, while millions live on less than a dollar a day. We talk to people at the very top of the pile.
Datum: 16.05.2007 08:00 •
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An insight into the armies of civilian soldiers, discovering who they are, why they are needed, what they do, and who they are accountable to.
Datum: 11.05.2007 16:00 •
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In this special programme from Radio Television Hong Kong, Erin Bowland explores the culture that is full of superstitions, rituals and beliefs revolving around the pursuit of success.
Datum: 11.05.2007 09:00 •
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From the farm to the café, the coffee travels over 6,000 kilometres and increases 16 times in price.
Datum: 08.05.2007 15:00 •
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In this second programme, journalist and broadcaster, Michael Goldfarb, travels to Istanbul to continue his investigations into growing anit-Americanism
Datum: 07.05.2007 11:00 •
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Justin Gregory discusses why many New Zealanders prefer to be labelled "God indifferent" rather than "atheist".
Datum: 04.05.2007 09:00 •
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The cheap white cotton t-shirt is a staple in many people's wardrobes, but what is the real cost of this bargain?
Datum: 01.05.2007 13:00 •
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Michael Goldfarb takes a thoughtful look at the rise of global anti Americanism. In part one, he visits Venezuela.
Datum: 30.04.2007 08:00 •
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After the Shot: the truth about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Datum: 27.04.2007 08:00 •
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Peter Snow investigates the battle that raged within the US government over the Falklands War, revealing previously unheard archive interviews.
Datum: 25.04.2007 09:00 •
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Lucy Ash tries to understand why so many French are fearful of globalisation and what that means for the future of France.
Datum: 23.04.2007 08:00 •
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BBC World Service and seven of its partner stations around the world bring a global perspective on the theme of belief.This week Amsterdam.
Datum: 20.04.2007 07:00 •
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Nigeria has the biggest population in Africa. So why has it been so slow to exercise leadership? Elizabeth Blunt reports.
Datum: 18.04.2007 09:00 •
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Lucy Ash investigates the changes afoot for French agriculture and for the French countryside.
Datum: 16.04.2007 10:00 •
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Why is the Charismatic Church in Ghana so materialistic?
Datum: 13.04.2007 09:00 •
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The BBC's World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle investigates the potential consequences of environmental pressures and rising populations on the global food supply.
Datum: 10.04.2007 13:00 •
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On the eve of critical presidential elections Lucy Ash asks how France is going to cope with the increasing pressures of globalisation.
Datum: 07.04.2007 11:00 •
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Kati Whitaker talks to three people about the impact of severe facial disfigurement on their lives.
Datum: 05.04.2007 10:00 •
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Presenter Mark Doyle assesses the growing but often under-reported challenges facing the world's food supply.
Datum: 04.04.2007 08:00 •
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On the eve of critical presidential elections Lucy Ash asks how France is going to cope with the increasing pressures of globalisation.
Datum: 02.04.2007 09:00 •
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Aboriginals believe they must protect the Australian lungfish in Queensland, but the government wants to dam the river. Who will win in this clash between contemporary and traditional beliefs?
Datum: 30.03.2007 12:00 •
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The recent history of food production, the so-called "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and 70s, that transformed Asian and Latin American crop yields in particular.
Datum: 27.03.2007 17:00 •
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This final part of Free at Last looks at the legacy of slavery in the minds of the descendants both of the slave owners and the enslaved.
Datum: 26.03.2007 08:05 •
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Was the insurgency fuelled by the failures of the occupation?
Datum: 23.03.2007 12:00 •
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- In Japan, rice has been the country?s staple crop since time immemorial. But behind the myths, the attitudes and rituals there are misconceptions and contradictions: rice is the centre of an ongoing struggle about national identity, religion, cure, environmental survival and good old money politi...
Datum: 20.03.2007 13:00 •
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Discover the factors that shaped the demise of the Transatlantic slave trade in Part Two of Free at Last.
Datum: 19.03.2007 09:00 •
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BBC reporter Hugh Sykes gives a personal perspective on the war in Iraq.
Datum: 16.03.2007 10:00 •
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This week - Bangladesh. The green revolution of the 60s led to unprecedented growth of rice production in Bangladesh.
Datum: 14.03.2007 08:00 •
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The story of black and African resistance to slavery is unexplored. This series looks at the acts of rebellion and sacrifice that brought the slave trade to an end.
Datum: 12.03.2007 10:00 •
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Billions of people around the globe enjoy watching sport. But who appreciates the sound of sport? Chris Mitchell talks to the professionals who make sure sporting events sound great.
Datum: 09.03.2007 14:00 •
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Tony Barrell investigates the environmental impact and the changing world of Asian rice production. This week: Thailand.
Datum: 07.03.2007 09:00 •
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Komla Dumor joins the crowds celebrating independence with fireworks and festivities, and looks at Ghana 50 years ago and now.
Datum: 06.03.2007 19:00 •
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What has been the reality of independece for Ghana since 1957?
Datum: 05.03.2007 09:00 •
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Tony Barrell reports from China, the world's largest rice producer. Tony talks to farmers, scientists and enthusiasts about what rice means to them.
Datum: 28.02.2007 09:00 •
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Global danger comes not from wars between great or regional powers, but from nuclear catastrophe. Part 1
Datum: 26.02.2007 15:00 •
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In 1957, Kwame Nkrumah had ambitious plans for the freshly-liberated country of Ghana. Kwaku Sakyi-Addo presents the story of events since independence.
Datum: 26.02.2007 09:00 •
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Rupa Jha meets Laxmi, an Hijras, or transsexual, to find out more about their role in modern Indian society.
Datum: 23.02.2007 11:00 •
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In part two of the series, we look at the North Korean nuclear crisis and the threat form nuclear terrorism.
Datum: 21.02.2007 10:00 •
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Is a new round of proliferation underway? This week, the nuclear detectives reveal public - and not so public - nuclear weapons programmes.
Datum: 19.02.2007 09:00 •
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