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Assignment Episodes

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    Panama's Vanishing Islands

    Panama’s idyllic islands are threatened by a rising sea, but one community has a plan

  2. Starting from Scratch in Uganda

    How do you make a new home in the African bush with a machete, rope and plastic?

  3. Bulgaria on a Cliff Edge

    What’s it like to live in the country with the fastest-shrinking population in the world?

  4. Abdi in America

    A young Somali refugee tries to live the American dream

  5. Counting Babies in Niger

    Niger has the highest fertility rate in the world and the government wants to change that

  6. Romania’s Webcam Boom

    Inside Romania’s live, web-camming world – the engine of the online sex industry

  7. Resistance and Repression in Venezuela

    Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas

  8. Last Call from Aleppo

    In besieged East Aleppo a terrified mother of three makes one last desperate phone call

  9. Inside Transgender Pakistan

    Pakistan's Hijra, or third gender, community shun a new emerging transgender identity

  10. The Battle for Raqqa

    On the frontline with the female Kurdish fighters liberating Raqqa and themselves

  11. Myanmar’s Drug Vigilantes

    A vigilante drug squad tackles a heroin epidemic in northern Myanmar’s jade mines

  12. Pakistan’s Campus Lynching

    Why did a mob seek out and kill a college “genius”?

  13. Siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery

    One night of terror at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery in July 2016

  14. Get Out of Jail Free

    Each year 35,000 New Yorkers end up in jail because they cannot afford bail

  15. Weapons of Mass Surveillance

    How western high tech mass surveillance is being sold to governments in the Middle East

  16. Recycling Beirut

    How Lebanese citizens are learning to clean up their own government’s stinking mess

  17. Syria’s World Cup Dream

    Syria’s dream of reaching next year’s football World Cup survives.

  18. The Sex Slaves of al-Shabab

    The Kenyan women trafficked to Somalia to be sex slaves for al-Shabab

  19. Banishing America's Bad Hombres

    Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the U.S.

  20. Elephants, Politics and Sri Lanka

    Religiously and politically potent, Sri Lankan elephants are killing more and more human

  21. Coming Out of the Shadows in Kenya

    Anne Soy meets the Kenyan activists helping intersex people take their place in society

  22. Wives Wanted in the Faroe Islands

    Men in the Faroe Islands are having to look far beyond their shores for marriage

  23. Cuba’s Cancer Revolution

    In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba’s cancer treatments gets a US drug trial

  24. Russia's Extreme Selfie Daredevils

    Lucy Ash meets the young Russians taking death-defying photos in hope of internet fame

  25. Hong Kong’s Secret Dwellings

    The hidden lives of the thousands of people who live on industrial sites in Hong Kong

  26. Brazil’s Modern-day Captains of the Sands

    How Jorge Amado's novel about street children written 80 years ago still resonates today

  27. Freedom and Fear in Myanmar

    How the Burmese military stand accused of abusing Myanmar’s Muslims

  28. The Stem Cell Hard Sell

    Is enough being done to protect vulnerable people in search of a cure?

  29. In Search of Henk and Ingrid

    Why is liberal, tolerant Netherlands home to a major anti-immigration anti-Islamic party?

  30. Poland and the Mysterious Murder of Jola Brzeska

    The Polish property scandal now being linked to a brutal and unsolved murder

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