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Featuring news on issues around the world. Yalda Hakim visits Romania, which has one of the largest Roma populations in the EU, to find out why they are one of the most discriminated against ethnic minorities in Europe.
Thailand's seafood export industry continues to use trafficked and forced labour.
In Vietnam, although the trade in rhino horn is illegal, there's a thriving market.
Robert Peston gains access to one of the biggest state-owned companies in China.
Yalda Hakim reports on suspected Taliban insurgents in Bagram prison.
Featuring news on issues around the world. Even in 21st-century India, life for single women can be tough. Rupa Jha speaks to single women across the country and uncovers some uncomfortable truths.
Djibouti is the only country in Africa with a US military base. From here, war on terror is being waged against Al Shabab in Somalia and Al Qaeda in Yemen. Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent, was granted rare access to the American base and reports from there for Our World.
The BBC's international development correspondent, Mark Doyle, returns to Rwanda to piece together the remarkable story of an unsung hero, Captain Mbaye Diagne.
Two religious leaders, from opposing sides in war-torn Central African Republic, are risking their lives by travelling the country together to try to stop the killing.
Featuring news on issues around the world. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has just turned 90 and is showing no sign of stepping aside. Our World joins him as he celebrates his 90th and asks what his legacy will be.
Steve Hewlett has gained exclusive access to the People's Liberation Army's officer training programme, as China's vast military machine re-invents itself.
Sue Lloyd Roberts follows two American veterans on a dramatic and emotional journey as they return to Saigon looking for their children.
Two years ago the body of a young man was found in a West London Street. He had no identity papers and no-one had reported him missing. Police were unable to trace his next of kin. But thanks to one number in his mobile phone the British police were able to piece together the extraordinary story of this young man's tragic death, thousands of miles from his home. For Our World Rob Walker tells the story of the 'man who fell to earth'.
Olly Lambert meets some of the residents of an abandoned skyscraper in the heart of the capital of Venezuela, who have created a secure environment away from the violence on the streets below.
The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet. Loggers and farmers have invaded their land in the Amazon, and their traditional lifestyle is under threat. Now the Brazilian government is finally taking action. Our World follows the dramatic progress of Operation Awa as the troops go in to recover the tribe's land to try and save one of the world's most isolated communities.
Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province is home to many of the country's minority Shia population.
Many there have long complained of marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni ruling family.Shia people saying they are poorer than the Sunni despite living on one of the world's largest oil fields.
In a special investigation for the BBC's Our World, Saudi journalist Safa Al Ahmad has gained unprecedented access to film in the region.
She spoke to activists, some of whom were on the government's most wanted list, and uncovered how the Shia community was reacting to a violent government crackdown.
Emissions of carbon dioxide are not just warming the world; they are also turning the oceans more acidic. The United States' Secretary of State, John Kerry, will warn at an oceans summit in the coming weeks that CO2 pollution may drive countless marine species to extinction. The BBC's Environment Analyst, Roger Harrabin, reports for Our World on the dangers facing some of the planet's most spectacular underwater environments, off the coasts of Papua New Guinea and Australia.
As a new law ensuring legal recognition for second, third or even fourth wives, in polygamous marriages, comes into force in Kenya, Yalda Hakim travels to a traditional Maasai village and Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera.
Navin Singh Khadka travels to remote villages around the Mount Everest to talk to families and community leaders trying to resolve the growing tensions within Sherpa society.
The number of people killed by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants rises on an almost daily basis. Thousands have died in a conflict almost unseen by the outside world. But what is it actually like living in the shadow of one of the most violent insurgencies in Africa? Yalda Hakim has been to Nigeria for Our World - and gained access to exclusive undercover footage shot in the troubled north-east of the country.
The British Government has told its citizens not to go to Syria. The country has been in a state of civil war for more than three years, more than 150 thousand people are believed to have been killed and the war has attracted hundreds of British fighters. The UK authorities argue that Brits may be radicalised by what they see if they go to Syria and that even charity workers could get caught up in terrorism if they go. The UK government has threatened to seize the passport of anyone ignoring these warnings. But some British Muslims are going anyway.
For Our World Catrin Nye travels overland to the Syrian border with a group from Bolton in the North of England. She waits for them on the border as they enter Syria, to deliver aid, money and ambulances - risking their lives and their passports. She asks what drives them to go, why they ignore the advice of the UK authorities and what they make of those UK citizens going to fight in Syria and whether they believe they pose a threat to Britain on their return.
ISIS,'the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant', stunned the world last month by capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city.
For Our World, Yalda Hakim has returned to Northern Iraq, a region she reported from last year, to find 4 people she met on her last visit - all members of a local paragliding club. She discovers how the arrival of ISIS has changed their country - and their lives, and asks if the ISIS declaration of an Islamic State, or Caliphate, marks the beginning of the end of Iraq as a country.
Will Grant meets one woman and her dedicated team in Arizona, who attempt to identify the bodies of migrants found in the desert, and return them to their families for burial.
The untold story of the hidden victims of the war in Afghanistan: the women whose husbands were killed in the fight against the Taliban.
Vladimir Putin may have angered the international community by snatching Crimea from Ukraine, but opinion polls show that nearly 80 per cent of Russians approve of the move. It is hard to overstate the importance of this Black Sea peninsula in the Russian psyche. The region was originally conquered by Catherine the Great's favourite general who said 'Russia needs its paradise.' But now millions of Ukrainian and foreign tourists are staying away.
The Russian government is trying to fill the gap by urging employers to send staff on subsidised breaks in Crimea. A holiday in the newly annexed peninsula has become every Russian's patriotic duty, despite continuing fighting in nearby Eastern Ukraine and the recent downing of the Malaysian airliner.
For Our World, Lucy Ash has been to meet tourists and locals in Yalta, one of Crimea's busiest resorts.
Fierce fighting in northern Iraq continues daily between the Islamic State, IS rebel army, Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Iraqi national army. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has travelled to the region to assess how the brutal treatment of Iraq's Christian and Yazidi minorities at the hands of IS, could be a terrifying precursor for what might lie ahead in Iraq if IS gains the upper hand in the battle for control of what is fast becoming a failed state
Sue Lloyd-Roberts looks at the latest of several enquiries into the historical abuse of women and children in the care of the Roman Catholic Church.
Bolivia's Cerro Rico mountain was once said to contain enough silver to build a bridge between South America and Spain. Catharina Moh reports on its collapsing, which threatens the lives of the thousands of miners who work there.
"Assembled in China" but designed in California, Japan or Europe: that's been the story of China for the past 30 years. But now China is pouring billions into innovation in a bid to produce the next breakthrough products and ideas. For Our World, the BBC's China Editor, Carrie Gracie, explores whether China's great push to innovate is succeeding, or whether cultural factors hold China back from becoming a truly innovative power. She meets the startup innovators building their own 3D printers and robots and she visits a state-funded telescope whose cutting edge China-designed technology, enables it to see more of the sky than any other.
Tim Whewell is one of the only western journalists to recently gain access to Tobruk, a once sleepy town now caught between terror and denial. He meets politicians and ordinary Libyans who fear that unless internationally-recognised authorities can regain control, Libya will become a stronghold for ISIS forces escaping the Western-led bombing campaign against them in Iraq.
Tanya Beckett travels across Eastern Europe to meet some of the architects of the revolutions and people whose lives were changed forever by the events of 1989.
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland and hears the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentured child labourers.
Ali Hamedani visits Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender.
Is the Middle East's newest country a territory called Rojava? Out of the chaos of Syria's civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged a radical, egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines. But with ISIS jihadists attacking them at every opportunity - especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? Our World has gained exclusive access to Rojava, from the frontlines to the politicians and refugee camps.
Rupert Wingfield Hayes heads to the disputed Spratly Islands to find out how America will respond to this new expansionist challenge from China.
Chris Rogers reveals the hidden shame of Guatemala's hospital for the mentally ill where it is alleged that patients suffer regular abuse at the hands of those meant to care for them.
Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there give an insight into the place of women in Pakistan society.
