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Who will control the new scramble for nuclear power?
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Robert Hall reports from Africa and the UK on the challenges facing the Scout movement.
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Roger Harrabin findsout how climate change could put millions at risk.
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Humphrey Hawksley investigates the dark underbelly of one of our best-loved luxuries.
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A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.
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A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map.
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Jeremy Bowen reports on life 40 years after the Six Day War.
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Ballet dancer Darcey Bussell explains why she is retiring at the peak of her powers.
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Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world.
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Liz McKean journeyed across Austria to investigate their record on recycling.
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Royal Marine Rich Robertson captures his experiences in Afghanistan on film.
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Mark Doyle meets the African Union peacekeepers trying to maintain order in Mogadishu.
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes looks at life in modern Russia and Vladimir Putin's policies.
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Damian Grammaticas investigates modern day slavery.
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Sean Fletcher looks back at the legalisation of interracial marriage in the US.
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A doctor works to improve health in north eastern Afghanistan.
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The moving stories of three of Britain's unpaid carers.
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A look at childhood obesity in Britain.
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Following a 600 mile journey through the Arctic, cleared by global warming this summer.
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Lyse Doucet meets a Soviet soldier who remained in Afghanistan.
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Matthew Price gauges the views of ordinary Americans on the economy.
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One of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by moving to work in Kenya.
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John Simpson finds out whether Afghanistan is on the brink of becoming another Iraq.
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Lyse Doucet meets the Taliban fighters and long-term prisoners in Kabul's main jail.
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Mike Thompson travels to the Central African Republic to discover poverty and war.
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In the wake of Cyclone Nargis Simon Ostrovsky reports undercover from Burma.
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how much aid from the British government actually gets to those who need it most?
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The BP oil spill has reawakened painful memories for the people of southern Alaska.
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How much support is there for Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill? John Simpson reports.
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Jeremy Paxman reports on how three British soldiers are coping with life back home.
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A video diary of life on the frontline with the Territorial Army in Basra.
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Paul Adams is with the British Army in Basra.
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The families of four soldiers who died in Iraq reflect on the war.
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Olenka Frenkiel reports on Bill Carney, a former priest accused of abusing children.
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Natalia Antelava investigates how children have been infected by HIV in Central Asia.
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Biofuel has made Brazil an agricultural superpower, but it comes at a human cost.
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Chris Rogers investigates sex tourism and child prostitution in Brazil.
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An amazing tale of courage amid the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Brian Hanrahan returns to Berlin, 20 years after the night he watched the Berlin Wall fall
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For five days in August, Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia.
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Paul Mason investigates what is really happening in the Chinese economy.
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Paul Mason investigates what is really happening in the Chinese economy.
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Chris Rogers visits Romania's orphanages to see the conditions people are still suffering.
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Investigation into the growing incidence of violence against women in Chechnya.
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Ewa Ewart talks to the teenage survivors of the Beslan terrorist attack.
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Chongqing in South West China has mushroomed into the biggest metropolis in the world.
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China and it hopes the Beijing games will herald a new era in its world relations.
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Crispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert.
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In Indonesia, there are fears that conservative Islamic groups are gaining support.
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Report on global climate issues in the lead-up to the UN Climate Change Conference.
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts investigates the criminals terrorising oil companies in the Niger Delta.
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Andrew North examines key events, such as the recent 'surge' of US troops.
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Jiyar Gol examines the impact of the internet in Iraq.
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Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Is fostering Western style governments the best way to raise living standards?
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Ballet dancer Darcey Bussell explains why she retired at the peak of her powers.
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David Shukman retraces Darwin's footsteps on the Galapagos Islands.
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Tim Whewell investigates how Russia's middle class are coping with the economic crisis.
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David Loyn investigates the thriving illegal drug trade in Afghanistan.
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Elections are being held in Burma for the first time in 20 years.
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This special report assesses the chances for victory over the insurgents in Iraq.
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Daniel Sandford investigates allegations that terrorist suspects were tortured in Europe.
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We are living through one of the biggest extinction eras the planet has ever witnessed.
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Prominent people remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. With Brian Hanrahan.
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Dan Walker meets Joan Laporta in his final months as the president of FC Barcelona.
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Fourteen million people around the world are known to suffer from Alzheimer's.
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The story of three Northern Irish men with the shared dream of Olympic rowing glory.
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British soldiers serving in Afghanistan talk frankly about life and loss.
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Mark Urban has been embedded with British troops around Musa Qala in Afghanistan.
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Paul Mason goes to Gary, Indiana to see the impact of President Obama's fiscal stimulus.
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Quentin Sommerville meets four young people in Shanghai.
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The city of Mumbai is still reeling from November's terror attacks. Mihir Bose reports.
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In the US the answer to the global food crisis is being sought in GM crops.
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In Senegal, schoolboys are sent out to beg on the streets by their own teachers.
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A former guard at Guantanamo Bay comes face-to-face with two of his ex-prisoners.
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Laura Trevelyan travels to Haiti with the United Nations.
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The US prison system is having to deal with more and more pregnant women behind bars.
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Ingrid Betancourt describes living through six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle.
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A showcase of BBC journalism with programmes that expose and evaluate global topics.
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The last survivor of Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker recalls the end of the Third Reich.
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David Willis investigates whether Hollywood is recession-proof.
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BBC Business Editor Robert Peston meets people who witnessed the demise of Lehman's.
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Millions of children do not get an education because their families are too poor.
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Fergal Keane reports on the unique world of the Inuits of Canada's high Arctic.
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Chris Morris on new Indian plans for low budget cars and a modern road network.
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Duncan Kennedy examines Mexican policy that allows children to stay with jailed mothers.
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Matt Frei reports on the reality of living inside Cuba, from the politics to economics.
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Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. With Gordon Corera.
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Sue Lloyd Roberts gets a rare glimpse into one of the last remaining communist states.
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Russian tanks entered Georgian territory this autumn.
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Jon Leyne explores the legacy of Iran's Islamic revolution.
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A look at the Sunni militia credited with turning the tide against Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Mark Urban travels to Iraq to talk to the soldiers who are part of the US troop 'surge'.
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Adam LeBor visits the ancient port of Jaffa where Palestinians and Jews live together.
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A radical approach towards groups like al-Qaeda.
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A look at the the challenges Montenegro and Ukraine have to face before joining the EU.
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Jonah Fisher spent six weeks on a Greenpeace ship tracking the Japanese whaling fleet.
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Nadene Ghouri goes inside Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department.
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Mark Urban and cameraman Luke Winsbury go to the Taliban stronghold in Kandahar.
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Six month ago a peace deal brought an end to Kenya's post election violence.
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David Shukman assesses the risks and the future of the Tuvalu islanders.
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Olenka Frenkiel reports on the plight of North Korean refugees as they seek to escape.
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The One Laptop Per Child project provides computers to children in developing countries.
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A look at the British loss of Aden, the last British colony in the Middle East.
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Emma-Jane Kirby reports from the frontline of French military engagement in Afghanistan.
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Tim Franks follows basketball star Luol Deng as he goes back to southern Sudan.
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Joanne Yirrell makes a journey to the village in Ghana where her son caught malaria.
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Twenty years after Mandela's release from prison, James Robbins reports from South Africa.
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Katya Adler examines the battle between rival drug cartels in Mexico.
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Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo.
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Rachel Burden discovers the part that Britain is playing in the search for life on Mars.
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What do motorway service station users think about the general election?
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The number of US troops killed in Iraq has now passed the 4000 mark.
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Laura Jones profiles a young woman left with severe disabilities after spinal cancer.
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Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in 40 years.
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A village in Nigeria gets internet access, while two families in South Korea lose theirs.
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Charles Haviland looks at how ten years of war affected one family in Nepal.
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Mark Urban and cameraman Mark McCauley follow the US Marines in Helmand.
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Alastair Leithead reports from southern Afghanistan.
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Oleg Deripaska tells Tim Whewell how he built his business and how he plans to bounce back
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As Zimbabwe's presidential run-off approaches, the BBC investigates.
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Can the Taliban be defeated without the full support of the Pakistani government?
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Barbara Plett reports on Pakistan's Taliban, their leader and his supporters.
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Mishal Hussein looks at the changes in Pakistan since the partition of India in 1947.
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Scientists fear we may be heading for a huge extinction in the seas.
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The impact that water scarcity has on security in the already fragile Middle East.
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Will the people of Ethiopia's Omo River have to pay the price for urban development?
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Rajesh Mirchandani visits Hanford, site of the largest nuclear waste dump in the USA.
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A report on the Balkans nine years after NATO intervention against Serbia in Kosovo.
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Mark Urban returns to the Baghdad suburb Dora, once known as 'the worst place in Iraq'.
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Steve Rosenberg talks to survivors and revisits the Sobibor concentration camp.
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Allan Little returns to Sierra Leone ten years after he saw civil war tear it apart.
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Tim Whewell explores plans for the biggest reform in the Russian army for fifty years.
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A look into the removal of the last dancing bears off the streets of India.
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Nick Bryant reports from Australia's food bowl, The Murray Darling Basin.
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In a film for Our World, Emily Buchanan examines some of the myths behind sharia.
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A year on, has power-sharing benefited the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans?
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports on Spain, a nation still divided over the legacy of its past.
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Dominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England.
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At the hight of the Atlantic hurricane season, Simon Hancock visits Tornado Alley, USA.
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Fergus Walsh investigates how obesity could bankrupt Mississippi's healthcare budget.
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Fergus Walsh compares child care in Sierra Leone and Sweden.
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Matt Frei returns to the swing state of Culpeper, Virginia and takes the political pulse.
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Why a small band of Cree Indians in Canada are taking on the world's oil companies.
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Tuberculosis has staged an alarming resurgence. Fergus Walsh reports from South Africa.
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The story of a young extremist who called himself 'terrorist 007'.
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Asia correspondent Alastair Leithead asks - what next for Thailand?
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Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine.
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Report on women being used by traffickers to carry drugs through Brazil's airports.
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David Shukman in Alaska discovers the massive melt of arctic ice.
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Steve Rosenberg uncovers the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam.
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Twenty years ago in Poland, the Communist regime lost its grip on power.
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Duncan Kennedy investigates Mexico's heavily armed drugs cartels.
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Former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is on trial for war crimes.
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Robert Hall meets Henry Allingham, Britain's oldest man.
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Fifty years on from independence, former colonial officer John Smith returns to Nigeria.
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Examining the incredible risks illegal migrants take for a new life in the USA.
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Gordon Corera reveals the untold story of how the US abandoned a nuclear bomb.
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David Shukman travelled over 8000 miles to find out where the world's rubbish ends up.
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With California's fire season now a year-round threat, what is being done to prevent it?
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Andrew Harding travels to northern Somalia to investigate piracy.
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Examining how the government uses technology to keep track of us.
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Nick Bryant reports from Australia on how climate change scepticism there is on the rise.
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Robert Hall on Nicholas Winton, who saved Czech children from the Nazis in the 1930s.
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Andy North speaks to Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
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Robert Hall finds out how important the BBC was in the France's fight for freedom.
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Royal Marine Rich Robertson's experiences on a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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Ben Hammersley examines the tensions between Ataturk's secular legacy and Islam.
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Tim Whewell investigates why there are now more reports of ritual killings in Uganda.
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Brian Barron and Eric Thirer set out to film the hunters of east Africa 30 years ago.
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a leisurely drive in a Volga car down the Volga river.
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The south-western US is suffering its eighth year of drought.
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Following the villagers of White Horse Village in China as they move from their homes.
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Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village deep in rural China.
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Southern California recently undertook America's biggest ever emergency drill.
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Sue Lloyd-Roberts films undercover in Zimbabwe.
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is being challenged from inside his own party.
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John Simpson uses secret filming in Harare to show the condition of Zimbabwe's people.
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A report on the state of Zimbabwe.