Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Hunting Syria's war criminals
Imagine walking down a street in a European capital and meeting your torturer
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Montenegro’s Chinese road
How a new motorway is fuelling fears about debt, corruption, and submission to Beijing
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Turkey's crazy project
The ambitious new canal project that's dividing opinion in Istanbul
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Peru's left behind children
The hidden pandemic in Peru; the thousands of children who have lost a parent to Covid-19
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The runaway maids of Oman
A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia
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The fake bitcoin mine
The story of a cryptocurrency scam that cost two men in India their life savings
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Poland’s fractured borderlands
A battle of wills between Belarus and the EU leaves a border community divided.
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Sleepless in Seoul
Korea is one of the most tired nations on earth and helping people sleep is big business.
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Rotterdam and the cocaine connection
The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is being overrun by illicit drugs
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Salmon wars
How a bitter fight is playing out in the American west over the future of a fish
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Evia’s inferno
Wildfires on the Greek island of Evia devastated lives and landscapes
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The Ahr Valley flood
In July, the River Ahr in Germany rose, engulfing ancient towns and villages in its path
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Lytton burns
Extreme heat and a raging fire. A small community watches their town go up in flames
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Denmark’s Red Van
A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen
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Russia: The limits of freedom
The story of ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondent Sarah Rainsford’s expulsion from Russia
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Pandora Papers: On the trail of dirty money
How money made from the 'world's biggest bribery scandal' ended up in UK property
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Northern Ireland’s Ceasefire Babies
Can a new generation of pro-British Unionists build a more harmonious Northern Ireland?
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A long way from Vietnam
´óÏó´«Ã½ journalist Nga Pham investigates people-smuggling from Vietnam into the UK
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The rise and fall of an international fraudster
The rise and fall of Hushpuppi – the social media influencer and global money-launderer
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The mystery of Havana syndrome
The mystery illness that has struck American diplomats and spies
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Moria: After the fire
Stories from people who survived the fire in the Greek refugee camp a year ago
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Catalonia: Squatters, eviction and extortion
How Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime
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India's living dead
Lal Bihari - the farmer who discovered he was dead when he was very much alive
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What’s killing Israel’s Arabs?
The violent crime wave afflicting Arab communities in Israel
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Malta and the El Hiblu 3
The story of how three teenage refugees ended up being accused of terrorism in Malta.
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Rebuilding Beirut’s village in a city
Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city?
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Dangerous liaisons in Sinaloa
The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa
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Finding Grace
James Clayton on a new technique for solving cold case murders using ancestry websites
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Missing from Manhattan
As America’s biggest city emerges from the pandemic, Lucy Ash asks what’s changed
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The runaway maids of Oman
Tricked, abused and trapped in a foreign land. Who will rescue the African maids of Oman?