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The world's worst air: This week on Unreported World, while some of the air quality in the UK may be poor, imagine living in a place where air pollution can reach more than 100 times the accepted limit. That's the case in Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia. Marcel Theroux reports on how the world's worst air is causing a public health disaster. This episode aired on 27/04/2018. // Subscribe to our channel for more Unreported World episodes youtube.com/unreportedworld.
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Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy follows the artists training for years in an industry that demands perfection.
The Korean Wave is taking the world by storm and K-pop is no exception with the industry estimated to be worth $8billion thanks to its 200 million global fanbase. In the South Korean capital of Seoul, performing arts academies and schools are training the next generation of idols. But in reality only around 1% will make it big.
In the Hanlim School of Arts, one of the country’s most prestigious dance schools, Guru-Murthy meets 16-year-old Heesu Chung and her classmate Sui who have been training and auditioning for months to get noticed. Following these K-pop hopefuls Guru-Murthy learns how these teenagers are crafted to be idols with relentless training regimes, scripted answers and picture-perfect looks.
But is it all worth it? Guru-Muthy discovers the power K-pop fans have over their idols, and the aspects of life stars must give up in order to conform to the industry’s expectations. For some the pressure of K-pop life is too much. Artist Min Su quit the successful boy band Teen Top after fans complained about his tattoos and smoking. And in a country with one of the highest suicide rates in the world, he explains that two of his friends took their own lives. “This is the dark side of the industry”, he explains.
Producer/Director: Katie Arnold
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Reporter Amelia Jenne follows the conservationists risking their lives to stop the corruption that is destroying the lungs of Europe.
In Romania it’s thought half of the timber harvested is illegal, according to environmental campaigners and the law enforcement. The EU has launched legal action against the Romanian government who continue to authorise logging in protected areas that are rich in wildlife, and vital in the fight against climate change.
In Suceava, a hotspot for illegal logging in the Carpathian Mountains, Jenne meets Dan-Catalin Turiga, a former government forester turned whistleblower who’s been tipped off that wood is being stolen from a government owned forest. On arrival they discover trees which have been illegally marked for harvest by government officials. On the mountain roads illegal shipments are being moved in plain sight, and as Dan chases down a truckload of suspected illegal timber, Jenne learns how it’s possible to cheat the government systems intended to provide transparency. Days later the police confiscate the truck and its load, and open an investigation.
But speaking out against government employed officials and loggers that form the Timber Mafia can be a dangerous business. Jenne meets those on the receiving end of death threats, beatings, and poisonings in an effort to permanently silence them.
Producer/Director: Tom Besley
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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In Mauritania it’s thought half of all women here get divorced at least once. In this West African country, steeped in Islamic heritage, local tribal traditions have normalised the practice of women ditching their husbands with many remarrying multiple times.
In the historic city of Chinguetti, Tull meets Teslem Milid who at the age of 26-years-old is about to celebrate divorce number four. With music, dancing and social media, Teslem announces to prospective husbands that she’s on the market. Most marriages here are still arranged by the women's parents, but Teslem says she’s determined to find husband number five herself. As the dust settles on the party Tull hears from Teslem’s mother, also divorced, that cutting the knot here still isn't without its risks.
Travelling from the desert to the capital, Nouakchott. Tull discovers the unintended legacy of divorce, including the high levels of divorced mothers struggling to feed their children. But despite the challenges some have found a way to support each other by creating a divorce economy.
Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
For a few hours a week, Haitians are allowed to legally enter neighbouring country Dominican Republic to buy food and other essentials, but many will try to sneak in and stay.
Last year, Dominican authorities sent 200,000 people back to Haiti.
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As Haitian gangs try to take over the country, the Caribbean Island’s healthcare system is in a state of collapse, and a woman and child's chances of surviving a pregnancy there are the worst in the Western hemisphere.
To give their babies a better chance at life, thousands of Haitian women a month are giving birth in the Dominican Republic, most of them have crossed over illegally.
Director: Helene Cacace
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Across universities in the United States a battle is raging over freedom of speech. At Columbia University two pro-Palestinian groups have been banned for holding unauthorised protests about Gaza, a move members say is about shutting down any criticism of Israel.
Amidst allegations of intimidation, antisemitism and Islamophobia, reporter Kiran Moodley follows a Palestinian student and Jewish-American student to see if he can find common ground.
Filmed, Produced & Directed by: Nick Blakemore
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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The once quiet suburbs of Sweden’s major cities are now the epicentre of a vicious turf war between rival gangs competing for the drug trade. More than 45 people have been shot dead so far this year, double the European average. The unprecedented spike in violence has forced the government to bring in the military to assist police.
In Stockholm, O'Brien meets Jamac Mumin Omar, a father who is now desperately trying to come to terms with the vicious shooting of his son Yahya. To date no one has been charged with his death, which the police have described as gang related. Amid low conviction rates, Jamac, believes he’s been let down by Sweden’s justice system. Meanwhile O’Brien comes face to face with the gangs themselves, who show little remorse for the people they have killed.
Producer/Director: Girish Juneja
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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On the outskirts of Bucharest lies the family home of a woman claiming to be Europe's most powerful witch. It’s here Mihaela Minca is planning an ambitious but controversial school that she hopes will give women from her minority Roma community a new chance at life. Half of the Roma gypsy community live below the poverty line, and most drop out of education due to poverty, discrimination and early marriage.
But not everyone is convinced by the magic this school offers. Witchcraft was forbidden during the communist era, and some politicians have tried to ban the practice altogether. The school also flies in the face of the Orthodox Christian church who believe witchcraft is an abomination.
Producer/Director: Nicholas Ahlmark
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Democratic Taiwan is living in limbo. The self-ruling island is viewed by China as a renegade province, and Beijing has vowed to unify by force if necessary. As Taiwan’s autonomy strengthens, the threat of war grows louder. But China’s military is twelve times that of Taiwan’s, and there is growing concern that Taipei isn't ready.
But not everyone thinks resistance is the wisest route to survival. On Taiwan's Kinmen Island, just 2 miles from mainland China, Guru-Murthy learns what happened the last time China’s mighty military attacked Taiwan's shores.
Producer/Director: Amy Gardner
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Although you can purchase exotic animals legally across Mexico, many don’t, and it becomes clear pet owners have bitten off more than they can chew, with many resorting to extreme medical practices to make them less dangerous.
Trying to manage the fallout is one sanctuary on the outskirts of Culiacan. Here Popp discovers hundreds of big cats that have been rescued from the black market, while others were caught in the crossfire between their drug boss owners and police. In Mexico City, Popp unravels the dark side of this trade, as undercover investigators expose traders illegally selling rare endangered animals.
Producer/Director: Stefania Buonajuti
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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So far 429 bodies have been exhumed from graves in Shakahola forest where Pastor Paul Mackenzie’s followers are believed to have starved to death. The leader of the so-called death cult is said to have promised his followers protection from the 'coming apocalypse'. Mackenzie denies any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile another church, Rainbow Ministries, is facing a crackdown for cult-like behaviour. But where is the line between faith and extremism?
Producer/Director: Tom Besley
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Drag Queen Story Hours, where cabaret artists read stories to children in libraries and coffee shops across the United States, have met widespread opposition from militias, activists and soccer mums, who fear drag queens are harmful to children.
At least fifteen Republican controlled states are now introducing legislation to stop drag performances where they can be seen by kids. Our reporter visits the Story Hours that haven’t succumbed to death threats, meets their opponents, and the drag queens who feel they are the latest target in a wider LGBTQ+ crackdown.
Producer/Director: Alice Anderson
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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As the country’s population and cities continue to grow, more humans are coming into contact, and conflict, with leopards.
Whilst visiting the southern state of Karnataka, Gahlot arrives in the aftermath of an attack where she meets a traumatised teenage boy called Gautham who is lucky to have survived.
The government’s Leopard Task Force is deployed to find and capture the animal.
India is now the most populated country on the planet meaning its cities will continue to grow. This could lead to more humans living their days in fear of a leopard attack.
Director: Vikram Singh & Girish Juneja
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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As India’s cities expand into animal habitats, more humans are coming into conflict with leopards.
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Brazil exports a hundred tonnes of gold a year and evidence is emerging that suggests almost half of Brazil’s gold trade comes from an illegal source.
But according to police documents obtained by the investigative journalism agency Repórter Brasil, Brazilian Federal Police, have accused a major international gold trader of buying millions of dollars of gold from a Brazilian company they suspect of sourcing its gold from the protected Kayapo indigenous territory.
Unreported World gained exclusive access to the federal police team leading that investigation, which could have implications for big tech companies using gold in their products.
Galdos also travels to the Kayapo indigenous territory to investigate the impact of gold mining on their community. Despite the money being made by mining bosses, most who do the actual mining are also impoverished. Galdos encounters illegal miners who say they’ve been mining for 30 years but earn just enough money to survive. Their work is wet and dirty, and a world away from what many would associate with gold. They wade through muddy water mixed with toxic mercury which increases their risk of kidney failure and serious neurological problems. Meanwhile local villages struggle to contend with increasing levels of disease, and a poisoned food supply.
Director: Helene Cacace & Mauricio Monteiro Filho
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Their community is centred around the Chongryon, a powerful residents association with strong links to the North Korean regime.
Unreported World has been given rare access to try to understand what lies behind their beliefs.
Born and raised in Japan, this community has their own unique schooling system, complete with portraits of North Korean leaders in every classroom.
Secunder meets a volatile ultranationalist activist targeting the schools and a former Chongryon member suing the North Korean government.
Producer/Director: Liam O’Hare
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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The Amazon community now wants compensation from the gold industry benefiting from their natural wealth.
Watch Unreported World Your Phone’s Dirty Gold this Friday on Channel 4 at 7:30pm.
Across Lebanon over a million people have been locked out of their bank accounts. The so-called Switzerland of the Middle East catastrophically crashed in 2019 over a banking crisis which has since been likened to a Ponzi scheme.
Now those Lebanese people previously reliant on foreign currency savings accounts can only withdraw the equivalent of a few hundred pounds a month.
For those desperate enough, there is no alternative but to raid their bank, and take their money by force.
Producer/Director: Katie Arnold
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Watch Unreported World Bank Raiders of Beirut this Friday on Channel 4 at 7:30pm.
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But reporter Guillermo Galdos discovers concerns are mounting around the safety and sustainability of the unregulated drug, described by some as the ‘God Molecule’.
Illegal in many countries, Mexico has become a Bufo mecca, and in tourist hotspots like Tulum numerous sanctuaries offer the drug to tourists walking in off the street. And it's a lucrative business. They’re charged £130 to £3200 per ceremony.
Warning: This film contains scenes of Bufo being inhaled, its immediate effects and images of toad roadkill.
Producer/Director: Leila Lak
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Reporter Seyi Rhodes travels the length of the country following herdsmen, farmers and poachers, all competing with each other to survive on a shrinking supply of fertile land.
Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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But reporter Jonathan Miller discovers that simple pleasures, like going to the cinema, or putting on a play, can be a risky endeavour.
Producer/Director: Nick Blakemore
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Unreported World reveals the stories of the young indigenous girls forced into motherhood after being raped and sexually assaulted. Isolated girls are particularly vulnerable, with no phone signal, and no neighbours.
In 2020, an average of 13 girls aged 10-14 became pregnant through rape in Guatemala every day. The cries of these young girls go unheard, reporter Anja Popp explores how the justice system appears to be failing these girls and learns that only three per cent of reported sexual violence cases are investigated.
Some girls are abandoned by their family due to shame with a few pressured to live with their abusers. But there are a handful of people and organisations trying to make a difference and teach young girls to understand their bodies and resist the cycle of abuse.
This episode contains testimony around sexual violence you may find distressing.
Producer/Director: Amy Gardner
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Hoping to become a grand champion is 12-year-old Kyuta Kumugai, a rising star in the sport who trains six days a week. But Sahar Zand meets former wrestlers blowing the whistle on their experiences. Professional sumos eat, sleep and train seven days a week in training centres, called stables. We hear that life in a stable is one of servitude, where junior wrestlers are beaten for breaking the rules, and some are made to headbutt a wooden pole hundreds of times a day.
The harsh and brutal sport comes with no weight classes and being overweight carries real advantages, and extra risks. We learn that Sumo wrestlers die 15-20 years younger than the average Japanese male.
Producer/Director: Katie Arnold
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Reporter Yousra Elbagir follows the heart-breaking search of one mother looking for her daughter Kristen, who was trafficked into prostitution when she was just 15 years old.
The city of Houston, Texas, is at the centre of a sex trafficking crack-down. There are more reported cases of child sex trafficking here than any other city in the United States.
And across Texas it’s estimated there are at least 80,000 children and young people forced into the industry in recent years, usually by people they know. The problem has become so bad that Texas is now the first state to make buying sex a felony, punishable by at least 6 months in prison.
Producer/Director: Liam O’Hare
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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A wave of violence against women is sweeping across Pakistan. Figures suggest nearly one in three women have experienced domestic violence from a man they know personally. In one of the most insecure places to be a women, hundreds if not thousands of women are murdered, assaulted or kidnapped each year. Rarely do their male attackers face justice.
Producer/Director: Masood Khan
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Across the United States for the first time ever over 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses in a 12 month period, the vast majority from Fentanyl, an opioid painkiller fifty times more potent than heroin, and much cheaper to buy. It’s a grim reality which is only getting worse with its devastating effects being felt everywhere. Not least in rust belt middle-America towns like St Louis, which not only has one of the highest murder rates in the US, but last year also saw 436 overdose deaths.
WARNING - this film contains images of drugs being prepared and discussions around drug use.
Producer/Director: Nick Blakemore
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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The South American country was until recently better known for tourism than for cocaine fuelled violence. But that’s all changing, turning daily life for many into a quest for survival. In 2021, more than 2400 people were killed in Ecuador as the country’s murder rate doubled. Sandwiched between the cocaine producing nations of Colombia and Peru, Ecuador's largest city has now become the new arena for rival Mexican drug cartels that control drug exports from the region.
WARNING - this film contains some distressing scenes.
Producer/Director: Thom Walker
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Kantamanto was once home to textile traders making a good living from so-called ‘Dead White Man’s Clothes’, items donated from the West believed to be so good that only dead people would part with them. But the arrival of fast fashion is changing that. In 2019 around 63 million kilograms of clothes were imported into Ghana from the UK, much of it cheap and damaged fast fashion donated by us.
But campaigners are deeply concerned about the impact of plastics found in much of our fast fashion. On the beaches of Accra, Ogene discovers a waterfall of mangled clothing flowing from the city’s sewers straight into the ocean. We meet scientists who believe that well known brands now embedded in the sand shed microfibres into the water. Their research has found clothing related plastics in seafood along the west coast of Africa.
While creative solutions are being found, we meet the government minister tasked with finding a balance between banning imports to safeguard the environment, and protecting the livelihoods of thousands of traders.
Producer/Director: Toby Bakare
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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The pandemic has left many in Thailand cash-strapped and jobless. Millions, predominantly young Thais, are turning to crypto to boost their fortunes. But cryptocurrency trading has its dangers. It’s volatile, with prices rising and falling dramatically, and it’s prone to scammers and market manipulation. This has led some countries to outlaw crypto transactions completely. But, for now, Thailand remains a crypto-friendly nation, keen to harness new blockchain innovations which promise to usher in a new technological era.
But not everyone is a winner. In the back streets of Bangkok we meet a man who made and lost nearly a million US dollars within a few months. With his initial investments now worthless, the 23 year-old warns that those who seek instant fortunes could be risking it all.
Reporter: Jonathan Miller
Producer/Director: Anneliese McAuliffe
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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As rich nations celebrate the success of their vaccination programmes, most people in Africa haven’t even received one of the life saving injections. As Covid variants emerge from unvaccinated populations, Unreported World investigates the reasons behind vaccine inequality, as the world is warned; “no one is safe, until everyone is safe.”
Reporter: Seyi Rhodes
Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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In 1943, Yong-soo Lee was just 14 years old when she was taken from her home and family in Korea by Japanese soldiers to become a "comfort woman", a euphemistic term often used to describe Japan's military sex slaves. Having lived in shame for decades, Lee has broken her silence and made it her mission to relentlessly fight for justice.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy follows the campaigner, known affectionately as Grandma Lee, as she makes her way from her home in Daegu, to South Korea’s capital in Seoul. On their journey Lee recounts how she was kidnapped and beaten by her captors. She meets some of the few surviving South Korean women, who now number only 13, and vows to get an official apology from the Japanese government, which denies it has any legal responsibility towards the survivors.
Producer / Director: Nancy Roberts
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Following Khadjou Sambe the west African country’s first professional female surfer, reporter Minnie Stephenson discovers a group of young women and teenagers fighting to get their surf school recognised. But the predominantly Muslim state takes a culturally conservative view on the role of women, with most expected to focus on domestic duties around the home.
Through Khadjou’s story Stephenson hears about the sacrifices and obstacles placed in front of young women trying to take up a traditionally male sport. Physical intimidation by male surfers, and opposition from their families is common. But will the women succeed?
Director: Katie Arnold
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Around seventy percent of the world's cobalt is mined in the Central African country, mostly from the southern Katanga area, thought to be one of the ten most polluted places on earth. Reporter Jamal Osman travels to Kolwezi, a city dependent on supplying Cobalt, a critical component for electric cars and rechargeable batteries. Residents are employed by large multinational companies, or in smaller, and more dangerous artisanal mines. We meet the men who clamber down dark weaving airless tunnels to extract cobalt for as little as $150 per month. But is the paycheck worth the health risks that doctors have uncovered?
Director: Girish Juneja
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Sitting on the edge of Europe, Georgia’s surrogacy industry is booming. Prospective parents from around the world are turning to clinics with modest prices to help provide their dream of a family. But does this largely self-regulating industry safeguard the thousands of women who are turning to surrogacy to make a living?
Reporter: Anja Popp
Director: Theopi Skarlatos
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Thousands of indigenous women are believed to be missing or murdered, leaving families and loved ones desperately trying to find answers. But often confusion over jurisdictions between federal, state and tribal authorities can mean that many police investigations become cold cases that are never solved. Now indigenous women across the United States are stepping up to find their women.
Reporter: Ayshah Tull
Director: Tom Besley
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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Here in Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, people drink two litres of sugary drinks a day, and Coca-Cola is king. As health officials declare a diabetes emergency, we meet the families in the thick of a diabetes crisis, a deadly mix of Covid and sugar sending people to early graves.
Reporter: Guillermo Galdos
Director: Nick Blakemore
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Executive Producer: Ed Fraser
Production Company: Channel 4 News
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A once welcoming Europe is now closing its doors, and Serbia has become a bottleneck for thousands of people a month trying to get through the increasingly hostile route. Many are fleeing war and persecution in countries like Syria and Afghanistan.
Reporter Seyi Rhodes meets beaten and bruised migrants trying to leave Serbia, and the families living for months in government camps too scared to make the journey.
Producer/Director: Dani Isdale
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Production Company: ITN/Channel 4 News
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Maiduguri is the spiritual home of Boko Haram, a terrorist group at the centre of an insurgency that has killed more than 36,000 people, and displaced over two million more.
With Covid lockdowns over, and the militants driven out, reporter Yousra Elbagir discovers a city determined to reclaim the joy of weddings despite the ongoing risk of kidnappings and attacks.
Producer/Director: Wil Davies
Executive Producer: Nevine Mabro
Series Producer: Andy Lee
Production Company: ITN/Channel 4 News