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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...
There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong? Stev...
Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIV/AIDS drug Maraviroc.
Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.
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 o...
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...
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'...
What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? BBC's Alan Little investigates.
BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, corporations and the new wave of internet publ...
The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, but is such a thing really possible...
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 sente...
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....
Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political psyche.
Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover the victims of a brutal and under-reported war.
Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip. Israel and Egypt responded by closing their bord...
Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics.
Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi charities.
This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet. It tells the extraordinary story of a middle-aged factory...
The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined gov...
In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' a...
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 pa...
In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments'...
Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own puritanical form of Islam to every corner of the globe?
Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy sickness. The results for unborn children were devastating...
The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined gov...
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...
In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of their governments' response to climate change – from th...
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 Proto...
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 Prot...
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 Proto...
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...
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 r...
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...
In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto did a deal this month. She told her suppprters to su...
We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether she could still face charges, despite the deal she ha...
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes face to face with the military leader who imprisoned him...
In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana where he experiences the transport system and learns ab...
Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil war how well is the city functioning?
Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia. Why is it too difficult to make Kweyol the island's official langua...
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 Minn...
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses on the special relation with Angola and...
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly provoking a confrontation with the US...
Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in China will fuel a new arms race in the Pacific.
Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that has more than 700 different languages and ethnic groups.
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...
Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in India, so that those vulnerable patients who can least aff...
Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and how the mobile phone industry prevented a severe recessi...
Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was killed in 1966, paint a vivid picture of the young so...
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 U...
Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Are the clinics offering genuine treatments at the cutting edge of science, or merely taking adva...
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