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The Explanation Episodes

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    The Media Show: Fear, threats and intimidation

    Have US diplomats been targeted by Russian sonic weaponry?

  2. What does the World Bank do?

    Michelle Fleury on the origins and purpose of the global financial institution

  3. What is sportswashing?

    Dan Roan on why oil-rich nations are investing huge amounts of money in global sport

  4. What is BRICS?

    Can a group of emerging economies change the existing global economic hierarchy?

  5. How does the World Health Organization work?

    Tulip Mazumdar looks at the successes and failures of the WHO

  6. What is Five Eyes?

    Gordon Corera on the origins of the international spy network

  7. Could Puerto Rico become America's 51st state?

    大象传媒 Mundo鈥檚 Ronald Avila-Claudio discusses what the future might hold for his homeland

  8. Kosovo鈥揝erbia relations

    Will Serbia ever recognise Kosovo?

  9. What is Nato?

    Will Nato continue to expand?

  10. Venezuela crisis

    With more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, how is Venezuela so poor?

  11. The EU

    How the European Union evolved from a six-nation club to a major global player

  12. Who are the Rohingyas?

    How the Rohingyas fled Myanmar to become the world鈥檚 largest stateless population

  13. What is a war crime?

    Even war has rules, so what happens when they are broken?

  14. Haiti's gang crisis

    How competing gangs are carving up Haiti鈥檚 capital, Port-au-Prince

  15. How Lebanon鈥檚 economy collapsed

    Protests, the port explosion and power cuts 鈥� what鈥檚 next for Lebanon?

  16. What is the Wagner Group?

    The mercenary organisation's operations have extended to many nations, but who are they?

  17. How the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland

    Denis Murray reflects on the legacy of the 1998 agreement

  18. Ethiopia, Eritrea and border wars

    Kalkidan Yibeltal explains the complex history between the two countries

  19. Sudan鈥檚 journey from independence to revolution

    Mohanad Hashim explains some of the complex history of the country he grew up in

  20. How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war

    Nawal Al-Maghafi explains how war has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises

  21. Who are the Uyghurs and why are they being persecuted?

    John Sudworth tells the story behind China's treatment of its Uyghur minority

  22. Cuba鈥揢nited States relations

    How a long, complex history between neighbours led to such an uneasy relationship

  23. Roe v Wade and abortion in America

    Katty Kay explains how abortion became central to American politics

  24. How Syria's peaceful uprising became a civil war

    Lina Sinjab tells Claire Graham about the conflict in her native country

  25. Understanding the long history between Russia and Ukraine

    What has bound Russia and Ukraine together, and what has pulled them apart?

  26. Understanding South Africa鈥檚 continuing quest for equality

    Why has the post-apartheid dream of a 鈥楻ainbow Nation鈥� not been easy to realise?

  27. Understanding the power that Saudi Arabia wields

    How has the Saudi royal family maintained strong worldwide influence in spite of critics?

  28. Understanding relations between Taiwan and China

    Why is Taiwanese reunification so important to China?

  29. Understanding the rise of Boko Haram

    How the militant Islamic group took hold in northern Nigeria

  30. Understanding North Korea and the Kim dynasty

    How the Kim family shaped one of the world鈥檚 most secretive countries

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