The first programme in a newforeign affairs magazine series in which correspondents report on events outside the usual news agenda.
In the second programme in this new foreign affairs magazine series presenter Gavin Esler in Washington DC reflects on the poverty and deprivation to be found in the US capital. Plus a report from Rwanda by Lindsey Hilsum , returning to Kigali after reporting on the massacres last year to search for herdriver and otherfriends who are missing, believed killed. Brian Hanrahan in Singapore reports on a crackdown on car-owners.
In the third of the new foreign-affairs magazine series Julian Pettifer reports from Brazil where doctors believe that a drug designed to treat stomach ulcers is being used by thousands of women to induce abortions. The pill sometimes fails, resulting in the birth of babies with a range of deformities. And Angus Robertson reports from Vienna on the passionate campaign to save the testcard on Austrian television - a symbolic protest against the introduction of 24-hour television.
In the fourth of this new foreign affairs series, Jim Muir visits a Muslim training school in Pakistan and finds that some of the children are kept in chains to prevent them from running away. They have been sent to the school by parents living in poverty who hope that their children might have better lives as mullahs. Instead, some of the children claim, they are beaten. Matt Frei, who presents the programme from Rome, reports on how Italians faced with political instability are turning in increasing numbers to sorcerers and the occult. There is also a report from Johannesburg by Tom Carver on the difficulties for blacks and whites of living together. Black South African businessman David Kupane has recently moved into a prosperous white suburb and is already missing the community spirit of Soweto.
Amid the growing debate on whether to ease sanctions against Iraq, Tim Llewellyn returns to Baghdad and meets members of the Iraqi middle class who say the West has betrayed them. The programme this week is presented by the BBC's Jerusalem correspondent, Alex Brodie , who reflects on events in Gaza as he approaches the end of his stint in Israel. And from the former Soviet republic of Kyrgystan, Alan Johnston reports on how the authorities are delving into ancient myths and legends to create a new heroic, unifyingfigure to replace the cult of Lenin.
Journalist Arthur Kent , who covered the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, returns to find that peace is as distant as ever. Civil war rages and an ever-growing number of Afghanis live in refugee camps. In Kabul, Kent finds a determined but bitter people who accuse the United Nations of betrayal. Ed Stourton , who presents the programme from Berlin, profiles a cult personality, transsexual Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, who has decided to emigrate because of rising intolerance in Germany. Also, holidays Sri Lanka style: while foreigners flock to the island for its miles of beautiful coastline, most local people head off instead on Buddhist pilgrimages.
Thousands of labourers in Brazil's charcoal industry are beingforced to work as virtual slaves in hot and suffocatingconditions. Julian Pettifer ventures into remote parts of the country to meet those who tend the charcoal kilns and finds that even children are being ruthlessly exploited. He hears that thousands of people are tempted by promises of free housing and good wages. Workers typically arrive penniless and are advanced moneyforfood, charged for "expenses" and begin their new life with a debt they can never repay. In Spain, Frank Smith reports from the inland region of Aragon, where the local population is furious that precious water supplies are being diverted to help the tourist industry on the coast.
The Tuareg people of the Sahara desert have long had the image of romantic, noble nomads. But now they stand accused of banditry and racism as they struggle to maintain a way of life threatened by war and famine. Aminatta Forna travels to West Africa to discover the truth behind the myth. Plus, as some Austrians become increasingly nervous about entering the European Union, Angus Robertson asks if this year's season of glittering Vienna balls will be the last to celebrate economic and nationalist freedom.
Maggie O'Kane goes back to Haiti to discover what has happened since US forces invaded to reinstate the elected government of President Aristide. She asks whether Haiti can break out of its cycle of violence, tries to track down former death squad members and goes on patrol with former New York police chief Ray Kelly, now trying to reform the police force reputed to be the most corrupt in the world. Merriel Beattie reports from Sopron in Hungary on the expansion of dentistry in this relatively small town. Since the end of the Cold War, tens of thousands of "medical tourists" have flooded in every year, mainly from nearby Austria, to take advantage of the high-quality services provided by more than 200 dentists in Sopron.
Six years after thousands of people in Sri Lanka were murdered during government purge of suspected revolutionaries, the relatives of the victims are demanding that the killers be brought to justice. During the period of terror, men and boys were taken from their homes to army camps where they were held and then, it is believed, shot. Reporter George Arney visits one such former camp, and joins a group of relatives as they confront police officers with allegations that the bodies of several young men who "disappeared" in the crackdown are buried in the police station grounds. Plus Edward Stourton looks back on the Mitterrand era as the first round of the French presidential elections gets under way. And David Walter presents an engaging profile of Dom Duarte, a descendant of the Portuguese royal family.
Julian Pettifer returns to Vietnam on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam Warto speak to TrinhThi Ngo , nicknamed "Hanoi Hannah", the radio broadcasterwho gave the Gis the North Vietnamese side of the conflict. Reportingfrom the Czech Republic, Julian Duplain visits an orphanage where some of the hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned. Plus Rhodesian-born Peter Godwin travels to the port of Beira in Mozambique, the holiday resort of his childhood, and finds a town so ravaged by civil war and poverty.
As VE Day approaches, Jonathan Charles reports from Nuremberg on the problems he faces as a Jew working in modern Germany. His grandparents also lived in Nuremberg but fled to England in 1933 on the day Hitler came to power. Other Jewish relatives perished in the concentration camps. Charles finds his own unease about Germany's future mirrored in young Germans. The programme is presented by the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Angus Roxburgh, who looks at how Russian veterans view VE Day. Also, David Loyn reports from India, where middle-class parents are suffering great stress because of the fierce competition to place their four-year-old children in English-speaking private schools. Demand for places far outweighs supply, with youngsters under enormous pressure to cram for difficult entrance exams. Are they being robbed of their childhood?
Lech Walesa was once a heroic figure in Poland when he fought against communist oppression as leader of Solidarity. But now as President of democratic Poland he is widely criticised for being out of touch and out of his depth. Jane Standley, the BBC's East Africa correspondent, goes on the first flight to Mogadishu in Somalia since the United Nations pulled out and finds a city where there's an uneasy and fragile peace between rival militias. Plus the decline of the flying Finns - Adam Mynott meets one of Finland's most famous runners, Lasse Viren, and reports from Helsinki on why long-distance running has gone out of fashion.
Amid the growing clamour in the United States for the death penalty to be more widely used, the relatives of those on death row are often ostracised by their communities. Bridget Kendall travels to Tennessee to discover how one mother has coped in the 17 years since her son was sentenced to death. Also, David Sells reports from Israel on how market forces are beginning to destroy the communal ethos of the kibbutz.
In China a new entrepreneurial class is cashing in enthusiastically on the benefits of growing economic freedom. Carrie Gracie spends a day touring Beijingwith a taxi driver who took part in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989 but now prefers making money to protesting. He describes how he willingly gave up his state-provided, guaranteed job for life in order to start up his own business. His new philosophy is that the only equality there is in life is the opportunity to make the most of what you've got. Through hard work he hopes to do just that - and aspires for his son to have wealth he himself hasn't known and drive a Rolls-Royce. Plus Jane Corbin reports from Cambodia on moves to rebuild the country after years of conflict.
Economic collapse in Mongolia has led to a disturbing growth in the number of street children living in poverty and squalor. Fergal Keane meets one nine-year-old boy whose home is a sewer shared with a group of other destitute youngsters. Also, the surprising story of what happened to Nigerian politician Umaru Dikko, who was found drugged in a crate marked "diplomatic baggage" at Stansted airport 11 years ago. The Nigerian government at the time called him their "most wanted fugitive" and accused him of stealing millions of pounds when he was a minister. Now, as Janet Anderson reports, Nigeria's military government is grooming Dikko to be a presidential candidate.
The return of the series featuring ersonalised reports from BBC journalists located around the world. Tonight's programme features the story from David Loyn of how a herd of rogue elephants has terrorised villagers in the Indian state of Bihar. So far, the gathering has outsmarted all attempts at curbing its behaviour. Matt Frei exposes the corruption rife in the Italian town of Gela, situated in the Mafia stronghold of Sicily. And George Alagiah reports from Sierra Leone in West Africa where the lust for diamonds has given rise to civil war.
Tonight, Olivia O'Leary presents the programme from Brussels in Belgium, where she challenges the views of bureaucrats still committed to European Monetary Union and the Euro currency. The programme also goes on patrol with the Austrian border guards policing Europe's new electronic frontier. High-tech surveillance equipment is used on the land border with Hungary, while boats patrol the River Danube and Lake Neusiedl in a bid to keep illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe out of European Union territory. Plus, Kirsty Lang looks at the craze helping the French to cope with the "feelbad" factor - philosophy cafes.
Tom Brook visits a community for retired people in California where life is celebrated through dancing, singing and synchronised swimming. A model for millions to follow or a vain attempt to ward off the ravages of time? Plus, in a story held overfrom 10 February, David Loyn reports on a herd of rogue elephants that has terrorised villagers in the Indian state of Bihar.
The trial of three US servicemen accused of raping a schoolgirl in Okinawa last September has sparked off a fierce controversy about the role of US forces on the island and in the rest of Japan. Anti-American sentiments that have simmered on the island for 50 years have come to the boil once more. Correspondent profiles one of the leaders of the movement fighting for the removal of US troops. Plus, as tensions mount between Greece and Turkey, Jim Muir reports from one potential flash-point - the divided city of Nicosia in Cyprus.
Julie Flint visits the emerging nation of Somaliland, where addiction to the powerful stimulant drug contained in Qat leaves is undermining the economy and destroying the family unit. Edward Stourton reports from Poland, the gateway for dealers smuggling drugs into western Europe, where he profiles Marek Kotanski, a controversial figure at the forefront of the fight against the trade in drugs.
Jon Silverman is on the trail of a Nazi collaborator now living quietly in Britain. With the help of the suspect's stepson, he tracks down witnesses in Belorussia who accuse the individual of being involved in the slaughter of hundreds of Jewish people in the former Soviet Union during the Second World War. Also, on a weekend that sees the European Union Inter-Government Conference take place in Turin, Italy, a look at why Switzerland - a country at the heart of Europe - will not be represented at the meeting. Sophy Fisher visits the country to find out why the people of Switzerland preferto embrace the independent spirit embodied by the legend of patriot
IlieNastase, Romania's controversial formertennis superstar and pin-up, harbours hopes of swapping his celebrity lifestyle for a career in politics. Jonathan Charles interviews Nastase as he hits the campaign trail in his bid to be elected as Mayor of Bucharest, asking him about the motivations behind his move and why he is attracted to a party in which many former communists hold considerable sway. Also, four-and-a-half years after first reportingfrom Bosnia, veteran war correspondent Martin Bell delivers what he says will be his final dispatch from the country. He recalls the bitter internecine conflict, the grief he has witnessed and ponders what the future holds forthis troubled region.
Rob Parsons delivers a bleak insight into the harsh lives of the city's street youngsters. In the chaos of post-communist Russia, thousands of Moscow children have turned to crime in a desperate struggle to survive. One 15-year-old Parsons meets has turned to prostitution while a penal colony for teenagers he visits is so grossly underfunded he is asked fora donation. The number of youngsters involved in theft, violence and prostitution is so great that the city's police force is stretched to breaking point. Many of the young people are on the run from their families, half of whom now live below the poverty line. Police trawl Moscow's railway stations for runaways who will be detained briefly before returningto life on the streets. George Alagiah reports on the last of South Africa's Kalahari bushmen, whose yearningto reclaim theirancient lands is being hampered by the erosion oftheirtraditions by modem influences. Cultural expert Kate Andrews , who is campaigningon their behalf, visit
The French Foreign Legion has long conjured up a romantic yet brutal image. But what is its role in the modern world? BBC Paris correspondent Kevin Connolly seeks some answers when he goes on patrol with the Legion at its base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. He talks to the Legionnaires, many of whom now hail from Eastern Europe, and discovers their reasons for abandoning their native countries and pledging their lives to the Legion. He also witnesses their occasionally tense relationship with the local people. The programme also reports from Manila in the Philippines which has acquired a name as the kidnap capital of Asia, and meets a family whose child was abducted and murdered. Asia correspondent Fergal Keane challenges the police on the reputation they have for being involved in more than half of the 700 kidnappings that have occurred in the last three years.
Jane Corbin reveals how the aggressively commercial production of tiger prawns on the Coromandel coast of the Bay of Bengal is causing pollution and corruption. Also tonight, a disturbing report from Tokyo reveals the stark treatment of drug users addicted to amphetamines. While some are imprisoned as common criminals, others are being placed in psychiatric hospitals. And the descendants of Fletcher Christian - famous for the mutiny on the Bounty - are planning a new rebellion. Many are now living on Norfolk Island, where there are growing calls for independence from Australia.
Tonight's programme features a report on the mixed-race Aboriginal children, known as "the stolen generation", who were forcibly removed from their homelands by the Australian government and taken to white areas as part of an assimilation programme. Although the policy ended in many of them, as adults, are still sufferingfrom emotional problems and are now starting to press for compensation from the authorities.
Fifteen years after the Khmer Rouge lost power, they still control hundreds of square miles of mountain and jungle along Cambodia's border with Thailand. It has been alleged that they have helped finance their civil war with the Cambodian government by allowing Thai timber firms to fell and export vast swathes of rain forest. BBC's Indochina correspondent Jonathan Miller uncovers the secret and lucrative trade and investigates accusations that Cambodian government officials are also in on the deal. And hidden cameras reveal another sinister trade - in tiger and leopard skins and bones. Plus, Emily Buchanan reports on a religious revolution in Brazil where thousands are abandoning Catholicism for a controversial evangelical group started by a former lottery salesman. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is a multi-million pound operation, which has attracted accusations of fraud and cash laundering.
In Germany hundreds of alleged former spies await trial on charges of treason. All are former West Germans accused of passing secrets to the East. The cases have divided the country, with some insisting that it is right to settle old scores and others arguing that such crimes are now best forgotten. Also tonight, a report on how the image of the police force in New Orleans has been severely dented by revelations that some officers have been involved in crimes, rangingfrom drugs-traffickingto murder. Tom Brook investigates whether new attempts to clean up the force can work.
The mood of the USA in the run up to the presidential election is the theme of two special editions of Correspondent. In the first, presenter Charles Wheeler asks whyyoung people are proving reluctant to vote; black right-wing activist Star Parkertakes her controversial views on welfare and affirmative action back to the streets of south central Los Angeles; and Martin Bell visits a Marine Corps boot camp to find out what the cadets feel about their country's future foreign relations.
Charles Wheeler introduces the second set of reports that gauge the mood of Americans in the run up to the presidential election. He meets the hugely influential elderly voters who call themselves the "condo commandos", while American film critic Michael Medved looks at the influence Hollywood wields at the White House. And Bridget Kendall talks to the disaffected American Indians.
This week's presenter Allan Little reports from the northern region of Zaire's Shaba province, where the local population has been left destitute by the actions of a corrupt government. Reporter Dulce Maltez is in Brazil, where she travels deep into the Amazonian rainforest in search of the world's last lost tribes, and Tom Carver investigates the plight of Red Army soldiers who, having defected from East Germany during the Cold War, could now face trial in Russia after being refused political asylum in the west.
French Guiana is the richest country in South America. As it is officially part of Europe and offers the same social security benefits as France, it exerts a powerful attraction on many of the continent's poor. Reporter Kevin Connolly looks at how the border police officials are trying to stem the tide of immigrants into the country. The programme also follows former Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharanskyto Russia as he makes his first journey back since being expelled 11 years ago. Plus a report by David Sells from Berlin on a row over a street name that is exposing deep rifts between the former East and West Germanys.
The foreign-affairs series investigates how almost 3,000 Canadians came to be sterilised, often without their knowledge or parental consent. Between 1928 and 1972 Alberta had a policy to eliminate "deviance and deficiency". Emily Buchanan travels to the province to meet a victim of that programme whose fallopian tubes were removed when she was placed in a mental institution by her mother. The woman's successful seven-year battle for compensation is now inspiring hundreds of others to follow suit. Writer Donu Kogbara looks into a campaign aiming to abolish the Ugandan Sabiny tribe's female circumcision rite, a practice shrouded in superstition.
Tonight in the foreign-affairs series, journalist Andrew Jeffrey journeys back to Angola where, nearly 20 years ago, he was paralysed as a result of an accident on an oil rig. He explores what is being done to help the thousands of Angolans disabled by landmines. Tim Whewell reports from Svelogorsk, in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, where one person in 70 is known to be HIV positive, although the town's first case of Aids was identified just six months ago. Shared needles used by youngsters taking a heroin-like drug known as Bliss are being blamed for the epidemic.
Tonight in the foreign-affairs series, Mike Wooldridge reports from the famed tea gardens of Assam in India, where tea planters are being threatened with kidnap, extortion and murder byterrorists. Also, Andy Webb investigates an extraordinary war in sedate Scandinavia between rival biker gangs, in which 66 people so far have been killed or injured.
Isobel Hilton travels into the jungles of Ecuador on the trail of the "biopirates" who exploit valuable natural resources. The forests are an ecological goldmine and there are fortunes to be made finding plants that can cure the world's diseases. But the shamen elders of an ancient native Indian tribe protest that their traditional knowledge is being stolen. Medicine from the dragon tree and a plant that is said to harbour the secret of permanent contraception are among the sought-after treasures that could make millions for Western companies. And not only the plants are of interest - the genetic make-up of the Indians themselves is being studied. Also, Edward Behr returns to his old regiment, the Garhwal Rifles in the Himalayas, to see how much has changed since Indian independence.
Tonight presented from Greece by Orla Guerin, who examines a long-running racket in baby-trading. She joins families whose newly born offspring were stolen from them, and who have searched for them ever since. Also, how a computer expert has re-opened the debate over the killing of John F Kennedy. New evidence suggests the fatal bullet was fired by two snipers in front of Kennedy, not a single assassin behind him.
Tonight's special edition, presented by Robin Denselow , focuses on events in the turbulent country of Zaire. It includes a portrait of the enigmatic revolutionary Laurent Kabila , leader of the Alliance of Democratic Forces and sworn enemy of the deeply unpopular President Mobuto Sese Sekoto.
In the run up to the handover of Hong Kong to China, Fergal Keane presents the first of two special editions from the colony, featuring investigative reports from Brian Barron, Sue Lloyd Roberts and Julian Pettifer.
The second of two special editions marking the handover of Hong Kong at the end of the month. Tonight Kate Adie reports from a Taiwanese naval frigate on the island's views on reunification with China.
Martin Bell meets the man who this year became Secretary-General of the crisis-stricken United Nations - Kofi Annan. Bell joins Annan on a busy schedule of political trips, and finds out how he hopes to reform the UN in a bid to restore the authority of the world's only truly global body.
Ibrahim, a 70-year-old Palestinian farmer, lives in Har Homa in south west Jerusalem. He has had land confiscated by the Israeli government and is now living next to a building project providing homes for Jews - a situation which he opposes with vehemence.
Emily Buchanan looks at how Bolivia'sjails house not only criminals but alsotheirfamilies; Daniel Lak profiles a deeply religious Bombay policeman who is on a quest to eliminate the city's criminal element; Jon Silverman reports from Bulgaria on two British men jailed on heroin-trafficking charges; and Bill Turnbull investigates tales of werewolves in Haiti.
Julian O'Halloran investigates files unearthed recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina, linking President Juan Peron and his venerated wife Eva to a secret operation to make the South American country a major haven for Nazi war criminals. It is known that notorious murderers Adolf Eichmann and Eric Priebke fled to the region, which was providing escape routes where they could evade recrimination. However, some sources believe that many other war criminals involved in Hitler's atrocities also hid there. With anti-Semitism already rife in Argentina, some Jews fear that the inquiry into these allegations, launched by the foreign minister, could spark further terrorist violence.
Olenka Frenkiel reports from Indonesia, a country in the throes of unrest, on the role of mystics. President Suharto and his olleagues are said to treat their prophecies with the utmost respect, but a group of Javanese mystics now predict his downfall. And from America, Claire Bolderson reports on the refuges that have been set up to protect women who have been beaten by their husbands.
As neo-Nazis prepare to fight in Germany's elections this autumn, Isobel Hilton investigates the disturbing re-emergence of the far right; Allan Little focuses on a psychiatrist's efforts to help victims of the trauma still gripping the people of Sarajevo two years after the war in Bosnia; and, in Bombay, India, Daniel Lak examines the steps taken by the authorities to combat the city's acute rat problem.
BBC Moscow correspondent Andrew Harding travels to Azerbaijan, the former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea, to see where the century's last great oil boom is in full swing. British Petroleum is leading the way in explorations, but Russia's secret services have also been busy, promoting coupd'etats and attempted assassinations - all to ensure that this newly strategic region does not fall into western hands. President HeydarAliyev of Azerbaijan and his Georgian opposite number, Eduard Shevardnadze , offer their views on who will ultimately emerge triumphant in this power struggle.
Julian Pettifer is in Peru, where last year he predicted that El Nino would bring disaster. On his return, he discovers that cholera has followed in the wake of serious flooding. From India, Suntia Thakur profiles Medha Patkur, a woman who has spent 13 years fighting against government plans for a dam on the Narmada river, while Angus Robertson reports from the Alps on why Austrians are hoping water can do for them what oil did for the Texans.
Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the power of organised crime has increased to such an extent that, via violent crime, it now exercises a stranglehold on the Russian economy. And now its influence isspreadingaroundthe world at an alarming rate. Kevin Connolly investigates the dangers posed bythis new threat and discovers that Russian organised crime may be the biggest criminal danger facing the west in the next few decades. He tracks the Russian gangsters as far afield as the USA and Israel, and reveals that billions of dollars are being laundered through western banks, the by-products of Russian involvement in drug trafficking, prostitution and a series of massive bank frauds.
Matt Frei joins Imelda Marcos on her bid to become the Evita of the Philippines. The widow of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos is fighting a 12-yearjail sentence for corruption, but is contestingthe presidencyon a platform of championing the poor. Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Jordan on the men who murder theirfemale relatives in punishment forwhat they claim are sexual transgressions. Lyse Doucet visits Israel's Negev desert to find out what remains of the country's old ideals, and Jonathan Holmes has news of the terror campaign by religious zealots in Uganda.
Jeremy Bowen presents a quartet of special reports that examine all sides of the Middle East conflict as Israel celebrates its 50th anniversary. Yehuda Amichai , Israel's national poet, reflects on his life in Jerusalem and how the battle over territory has developed since he helped to fight for independence in 1948. David Sells investigates the escalating violence between the liberals and the ultra-orthodox Haredim Jews, which centres on whether the country's archaeological sites should be disturbed. From the West Bank, Jeremy Bowen meets a family of settlers on a permanent state of alert, and Julie Flint chronicles the plight of a dispossessed Palestinian familyforwhom the peace deal means having to work illegally.
John Sweeney reports on the trade in human traffic across the Strait of Malacca, between Malaysia and Sumatra. Asia's economic crisis has caused several thousand immigrant workers to be deported from Malaysia, some of whom face persecution in Indonesia, while thousands of Indonesians are trying to escape the oppressive regime of President Suharto. Kevin Connolly investigates a successful new version of "care in the community" in the medieval French town of Ainay-le-Chateau, whereby residents are paid to share their homes with the mentally ill. And, from Rosh Ha'ayin in Israel, David Sells unravels the bizarre story of hundreds of babies who were stolen during the state's founding 50 years ago.
George Alagiah examines post-apartheid South Africa and concludes that racism is still rife under Nelson Mandela 's presidency. Looking into the recent murder of a black baby by a white farmer, he asks whether the rainbow nation really exists. Tom Carver visits atraining camp in Texas thatteaches non-violent civil disobedience, and James Miles reports from northern India on the unsolved 1997 killing of three members of the Dalai Lama 's inner circle.
Allan Little, presenting this week's edition from Moscow, goes behind the scenes with the creators of Kookli, the Russian satirical equivalent of Spitting Image. Bridget Kendall reports from Peru on how bungled operations carried out as part of the government's sterilisation programme have led to the deaths of at least ten women. And from Rosh Ha'ayin in Israel, in an item postponed from 2 May, David Sells investigates the story of hundreds of Yemenite babies stolen during the state's founding, 50 years ago.
Phil Rees reports from Kosovo, the Balkan province where a tragedy even greater than the Bosnian conflict threatens to unfold. Although only ten per cent of its people are Serbs, it is under Serbian rule and the majority Albanian population are fighting for independence. President Slobodan Milosevic chose Kosovo as the starting point for his campaign of ethnic hatred over a decade ago, and historically the province is a proud Serbian stronghold. For the Serbs, a potentially horrific war against the Kosovo Liberation Army represents their last chance to exert military power after defeats in Croatia and Bosnia.
Kate Adie travels to Indonesia to witness life in the aftermath of President Suharto's recent resignation. She chronicles his demise, and talks to some of the students who helped bring about the situation. After the initial euphoria which greeted the end of the ageing despot's 32-year reign, Adie reports on the power vacuum in the midst of a perhaps unfinished revolution. She also considers the potential economic and political backlash which could further compound an economy still in deep crisis.
Chongqing, now China's most densely populated city, is undergoing drastic upheaval. Once the centre of Chairman Mao's armaments industry, its factories are now crumbling and its socialist institutions are in decline. A new faith in market forces has led to a huge disparity in the distribution of wealth and a surge in crime - situation far removed from the egalitarian society envisaged by Mao. The Liaos, once Red Army guards and now affluent restaurateurs, represent a new class of self-made capitalists. But single mother He Xiaoxia has lost her livelihood and, along with millions of other jobless Chinese, faces a bleak future. Isobel Hilton meets the rich and poor of Chongqing in a report exposing the human face of China's "economic miracle".
In February the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, made a crucial visit to Iraq as a second Gulf War was becoming a possibility. His diplomatic success in these negotiations afforded him star treatment from the media. This film observes the tense atmosphere in Baghdad as the talks unfolded, and follows Annan on trips to Rwanda, where he struggled to absolve the UN of responsibility for the genocide, and to Nigeria, where he attempted to have former opposition leader Chief Abiola released from jail. The series continues next month.
Presenter Rageh Omaar describes his ordeal in Yemen last May when-together with two BBC colleagues - he spent two weeks in captivity after being arrested by Yemeni authorities. Sue Lloyd-Roberts talks to the Dalai Lama , Tibet's spiritual leader, as she reports on a fresh waveof religious persecution facing Tibetans. And Olenka Freinkel reports on the wartime murder of 15,000 Polish army officers by Soviet secret police - a crime denied for 50 years.
The Basque separatists ETA declared an indefinite ceasefire last month after 30 years of brutal activity against the Spanish state. The murder in July 1997 of young politician Miguel Angel Blanco was widely regarded as the nadir in an independence movement which has claimed nearly 800 lives. Orla Guerin explores the background to the ceasefire, asking whether it indicates a genuine desire for peace or amounts to a cynical ploy to gain votes on the eve of the Basque regional elections. She speaks to all sides in the conflict, including ETA representatives and Spain's Interior Minister, and there is exclusive footage of the peace declaration being made. Guerin also interviews the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, who reveals the extent of the ETA's long association with the IRA, and how much the Northern Ireland peace process played a part in ETA's ceasefire.
The Lewinsky affair has sent the media of the world, and in particular that of the United States, into a frenzy unseen since Watergate. At the eye of the storm are the White House Press Corps or "Scorps", the cream of Washington's political journalists who are pressing President Clinton's "spin doctors" for new details. From the internet publication of Kenneth Starr's report to the eve of the mid-term elections, Julian Pettifer reports on the battle of words between news-hungry reporters and the presidential press office. Pettifer also speaks to journalists of different generations about their views on contemporary investigative reporting.
Brian Barron reports from the small town of Blair, West Virginia, where a row is brewing between local residents and coal companies who are dynamiting the tops of mountains and dumping waste in the valley. In Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, Julie Flint joins local journalists who are attempting to highlight the city's appalling crime record. In southern Sudan, cameraman Andrew Allam watches a unique mine-clearing operation organised by a small group of Sudanese in the war-torn town ofYei. And, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Jonathan Holmes meets a water-diviner whose methods have earned him a reputation as a miracle worker.
In the Russian town of Yaroslavl', 200 miles north-east of Moscow, most people have not received wages or pensions for months, and the regional governor has prevented farm and factory goods leaving the area. But despite a national crisis, which has seen food prices treble, Katya Titova, a young unemployed woman, and businessman Yuri Tarakanov are preparing for their respective marriages. Tim Whewell reports from a town in the grip of economic meltdown and hears from the local community, who talk about Russia's future.
In Malaysia presenter John Sweeney takes stock of the growing opposition to the regime overseen by Dr Mahathir. Guy Smith is in Chile to meet the elderly leader of a commune which has led a clandestine existence since the end of the Second World War.
India, which governs two-thirds of Kashmir, insists on controlling all of the Himalayan territory, while Pakistan believes the remaining, predominantly Muslim, region should choose its country of dependence. In light of escalations in violence, and of controversial atomic tests by India and Pakistan earlier this year, American intelligence believes Kashmir is the most likely place in the world to spark off nuclear aggression.
The season of programmes about human rights around the world continues with a report on the political chaos within the Palestinian National Authority that is undermining prospects for a Middle East peace deal. Jeremy Bowen looks into a litany of human-rights violations - including torture and killings carried out inside Palestinian jails-and uncovers a web of judicial and political corruption that threatens PNA President Yasser Arafat 's dual aim of peace with Israel and an independent Palestinian state.
Within the American prison system an estimated 300,000 men are sexually assaulted every year. Fergal Keane reports from New York - home of the United Nations - on the epidemic of male rape in US prisons. Reporter Isobel Hilton visits the Chilean capital of Santiago where she finds scars inflicted by ex-dictator General Pinochetrecently arrested in Britain-remain all too apparent.
As Islamic fundamentalism gains ground in Pakistan, the law of purdah consigns women to invisibility. While some men have killed their wives with impunity, women are sent to death row for murdering their husbands. Women who rebel face violent reprisals. With western governments reluctant to offer refuge to victims of gender persecution, reporter Olenka Frenkiel travels across Pakistan to reveal the abuse of human rights.
In 1993 Sebastian Rich, an ITN cameraman, was filming the war in Bosnia when he saw a Muslim girl dying of leukaemia in a Tuzla hospital. Presenter Kate Adie returns to the scene and recounts Rich's attempt to rescue her. Phil Rees reports from the railway lines on the border between India and Pakistan, where bombs are found on an almost daily basis, and asks whether these acts of sabotage are part of a battle between the countries' secret services. Kevin Connolly hunts for the increasingly scarce truffle in rural France.
On March 5, 1986, Sean Sellers killed his mother and stepfather, Vonda and Lee Bellofatto, while they were asleep in the bedroom of their Oklahoma City home. He was sentenced to death.
Jane Standley looks at the risingcrime rate in South Africa as seen through the eyes of a black teenager, Lucky, and his friends from suburban Johannesburg. Unemployed, directionless and lured by crime and drugs, they feel disillusioned with life in the post-apartheid era. As a sometime defence-unit memberwho helped protect his violent township, Lucky must now choose between education and a life of crime. From Algiers, Phil Rees takes stock of the deteriorating relations between government forces and Islamic militants, enemies in a civil warthat has claimed 80,000 lives in Algeria in just seven years. In America, Tom Brook reports on the people being surveyed around the clock with webcams, cameras linked through home computers to project images on the internet.
Temperatures in parts of the far north are rising at a rate of one degree Celsius per decade; experts believe that the Arctic ice cover could disappear as a year-round feature by the end of the next century. Julian O'Halloran reports from Alaska on the changes affecting the region and hears from the native Inuit - whose hunting season has already been halved by the retreat of the ice - and from climate scientists who tell how global warming could result in extreme, destructive weather conditions worldwide.
From Sri Lanka, presenter Matt Frei reports on the story of a two-year-old child who is said to be the reincarnation of former President Premadasa. Sue Lloyd-Roberts surveys a Tennessee scheme whereby women scarred by domestic violence are offered free plastic surgery, and Julie Flint looks at attempts to uncover human rights abuses in Guatemala.
In Russia, a country still struggling to shake off the spectre of its recent past, sculpted images of Communist times still enjoy some popularity. But with the state facing widespread poverty and many finding the old icons irrelevant, new sculptors such as the well connected Tsereteli Zurab are finding increasing favour. Presenter Andrew Harvey reports. Tom Gibb documents the gang wars being waged among San Salvador's youth from the frontline, and from Iran, Tim Whewell looks into why the Middle East's first condom factory has been sanctioned.
Fergal Keane presents tonight's programme from the war-torn West African country of Sierra Leone. As the violence spreads to Freetown -the country's capital - and its citizens flee underthe cover of darkness, Keane finds a local hotel is still taking bookings. Sue Lloyd Roberts looks at a growing number of bride-stealing cases in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, and there's a disturbing report that reveals evidence of military instigated atrocities on the Indonesian island of Biak.
Scheduled to open next year, Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the city's salute to the new millennium. Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's powerful mayor and a front runner to succeed President Boris Yeltsin in next year's election, has been an influential figure in the building's swift construction. But its precise cost-estimated $1 billion dollars - is unknown. Arts journalist Geraldine Norman investigates how the cathedral has been funded, and attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding $12 million gift to the church from Yeltsin.
Brian Barron visits Kenya to report on the power struggle within the Kenyan Wildlife Service-an organisation believed to be in financial trouble as donors withdraw funds and tourist revenue falls. American doctor Dr Mildred Hanson , who is in her seventies, tells of her determination to keep her Minneapolis abortion clinic open in the face of death threats from pro-life campaigners, and Tim Whewell reports from Iran on the contrasting stories of two Iranian artists who fought the Iraqis in the first Gulf War.
In the week before reunified Germany reinstalls its parliament in Berlin's Reichstag, Caroline Wyatt investigates the reasons why the city has the fastest growing Jewish community in the world. Among those she meets are survivors of Nazi persecution. Lucy Ash visits Ghana to see how, despite a campaign to end ritual slavery, fetish priests are keeping girls as servants.
In the wake of a spate of attacks on India's minority Christian community, includingthe burning of churches, Mike Wooldridge reports on the battle between Hindu nationalists and Christian evangelists. Bridget Kendal profiles American "pro-choice" doctor Mildred Hanson who wears a bullet-proof vest because of the threats to herlifefrom "pro-lifers". From Belarus, Steve Rosenberg looks at the legacy of more than a century of anti-Semitism.
As Europe struggles to cope with the influx of refugees from Kosovo, Edward Stourton travels to Bosnia to investigate the plight of more than one million refugees from that conflict who are yet to return home . Helen Rollason goes to Italy to find out why Italian broadcasters have more female football commentators than the UK. In Ghana, Mark Doyle witnesses the coronation of the new king of the Ashanti people.
Jane Corbin reports from Macedonia in a special edition of the foreign-affairs programme that sees how journalists are coping with the Balkan situation. In a war dominated by propaganda and rhetoric, and with reportage restricted in key danger areas, factual evidence of events has often been slow to filter through. Journalists working for publications on all sides explain how they have been reporting the war, and the difficulties they have faced in conveying their version of events. Those featured include Toma, Yugoslavia's most famous war photographer, who stands on a high roof in Belgrade waiting for Nato's bombs to drop without knowing whether his family will be alive or dead in the morning. The film also traces the progress of the staff at Pristina's main newspaper, who have fled Serb forces in Kosovo and set up an office in exile in Macedonia.
The New York Police Department has adopted a controversial strategy to overturn the city's reputation as the murder capital of the world, with elite squads patrolling the streets under the motto "We Own the Night". But in one of a series of recent cases, a young, unarmed black man was killed outside his own front door by four members of a crack unit. Kurt Barling's investigation assesses events in the city.
After an investigation by top law officer Rehman Malik , the family of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are said to have been involved in huge loan defaults, fake bank accounts and money-laundering. The litany of alleged corruption has shocked the country, although supporters of Sharif claim the leader is the object of a ruthless framing by his political opponents. Steve Bradshaw gauges the controversy that has engulfed Sharif.
Three years ago in Indonesia, the previously little-known Free Papua Movement focused the world's attention on the island of New Guinea when they kidnapped 24 people, including four Britons among that number. With the help of interviews with the kidnappers and eyewitness accounts, the bizarre story of the rescue mission is revealed for the first time.
During the brutal Rwandan civil war of 1994, the systematic rape of thousands ofTutsi women by the Hutu militia left many of the victims pregnant or infected with the virus that can cause Aids. Tonight reporter Isabel Hilton investigates what happened to the babies born as a result of the atrocities. She also reveals how, five years on, Dativa and other Tutsi women from the village of Bicumbi are seeking justice against their attackers.
Edward Stourton files a report from East Timor, where he has been following the Bishop of Dili, Carlos Belo , in the run-up to and aftermath of the recent referendum on independence from Indonesia. Thousands of American men claim to have been traumatised by the Vietnam War in the hope of compensation, when in truth they never served. Julian Pettifer investigates attempts by genuine veterans to expose the fakes. And, from Barcelona, Isabel Hilton reports on the debate raging over Antoni Gaudi , the city's most famous architect.
For 16 years, the guerrillas of Polisario fought a bloody battle with Moroccan soldiers for the Western Sahara. In 1991, the fighting stopped and the territory's inhabitants, the Saharawis, were supposed to decide their future in a referendum. But the voting process has been repeatedly delayed, leaving the conflict unresolved and 170,000 Saharawis as refugees in the Algerian desert.
Three days before the world's population officially reaches six billion, correspondents around the globe report on the problems linked to such a statistic. Edward Stourton discovers family-planning policies are failing in India while, in northern Italy, Beppe Severgnini finds career-orientated women blamed for a baby drought. Plus reports from Gaza and Georgia, USA.
A trilogy of programmes about the war in Kosovo, begins with this film, which looks at the media campaign that accompanied hostilities. How the War Was Spun. On 14 April, Nato's public-relations campaign was thrown into turmoil when its planes bombed Albanian refugees fleeing Serb aggression, killing 70 people. As NATO issued conflicting versions of what happened, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair ordered a complete overhaul of the organisation's press machinery.
This breakdown of the financial damage caused by the war in Kosovo continues the Kosovo: the Reckoning season. When the estimated £500 million cost of resettling the Albanian refugees is added to the expenditure on military hardware, peacekeeping forces and repairing ruined infrastructure, the final bill is likely to run into billions. Correspondent concludes the Kosovo: the Reckoning season next Saturday with a look at another legacy of the Kosovan war.
Presenter Edward Stourton reports from Turkey on the grim aftermath of August's earthquake as many remain missing and aid agencies struggle to cope with survivors' needs. Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports from Nepal on the case of a 14-year-old girl who has been jailed for 12 years for having what she claims was a forced abortion after an alleged rape. Plus a report from Julian Pettifer on fake Vietnam veterans being hunted by men who genuinely fought in the war.
In an edition devoted to Africa, Edward Stourton reports from war-ravaged Angola, where victims are preferring to seek out shamans instead of doctors. Rageh Omaar travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo game park to look into why the gorillas there have become targets for poachers, and Gary O'Donoghue visits a Ghanaian village where river blindness afflicts one person in five.
Last month's military coup in Pakistan was the fourth since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi. who was arrested by the last administration after accusing the prime minister of corruption, embarks on a political journey through the country to find out why democracy keeps failing.
On the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Children's Rights, reporters around the globe look at how the rights of children can conflict with parents' interests. Edward Stourton is in California, where cases of children born after sperm donation have resulted in tension between the genetic father and the parents that have raised the child. Other reports are filed by Matt Frei in South Korea and Wendy Robbins in India.
General Alexander Lebed , the governor of Krasnoyarsk, is locked in combat with pugilist tycoon Anatoli Bykov , wanted on charges of corruption and murder and recently arrested by Interpol. At stake is control of a huge and valuable area of Siberia, a region rich in mineral deposits. Andrew Harding reports on a case that reflects a wider issue in Russia: who really runs the country - the bankrupt state or the "gangster capitalists"?
For half a century, journalists have frequented the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong as they chronicled events that shaped South East Asia. Now, though, the club requires major renovation work, while resentment grows over how the establishment is being run. Members of the club talk about the present problems and recall the news stories they have covered.
Last May, an unarmed United Nations team began arriving in East Timor to organise the August referendum in which the East Timorese people voted to move towards independence from Indonesia. But, by mid-September, most UN personnel had been forced to leave in the face of rising violence instigated by pro-Indonesian militia. Reporter Guy Smith returns to ask why the UN failed to foresee events, and follows UN workers as they revisit the area to find out what happened after they left.
The international current-affairs series returns with a special edition featuring three reports from Latin America. In October 1998, Honduras was devastated by a hurricane that killed over 10,000 and left millions homeless. Huge amounts of aid were donated by the west, but, over a year later, people remain hungry and the country's infrastructure is in tatters. Edward Stourton reports on how much of the aid money has gone to pay interest to the West's own banks. Isabel Hilton reports on attempts in Nicaragua to deal with the country's domestic violence and sexual abuse, and Tom Gibbs investigates the mystery of a lost Cuban inheritance that, legend has it, involves the Bank of England.
Three reports on the quest for stable government in Africa, introduced by Edward Stourton. In Zamfara, northern Nigeria, Muslim Sharia law is now in place in spite of opposition by the country's secular government. Emily Buchanan reports on the fears of the province's Christian minority. Meanwhile, Peter Gill follows the Rev Joseph Ayok, a Sudanese refugee, as he returns to his war-torn homeland to find a humanitarian crisis. After years of military dictatorship, Mali is trying to make strides towards more democracy. Tim Whewell reports on an innovative project that will allow citizens to take their complaints directly to the country's rulers.
The Beijing Youth Daily, a Chinese newspaper owned by the Communist Party, now sees reporters covering stories - from human-interest pieces to allegations of corruption - thought too sensitive a few years ago. Julian O'Halloran meets three journalists trying to balance party pressure with readers' demands.
Six months before Pan Am exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988, an Iranian airbus was shot down by the US warship Vincennes, killing 290. Correspondent shows what really happened that day and why the Lockerbie victims might have been the last casualties of the Gulf War.
David Sells examines the violence on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Two thirds of all the world's coca leaf is cultivated in Colombia's equatorial jungles before it is refined into cocaine. Marxist guerrillas earn vast sums protecting the growers, but right-wing paramilitaries, funded by landowners, are using vicious tactics to undermine them. Now the US is set to spend 1800 million arming the Colombian military in an effort to defuse the crisis.
Pakistan's penal code, amended to embrace Islamic principles, provides for the heir of any murder victim to forgive the killer. But these laws are open to abuse, allowing family members to conspire to kill. In this follow-up to last year's documentary Murder in Purdah, Olenka Frenkiel examines how the Senate, courts, mosques and villages conspire to imprison women, trade them in marriage and condone their murder. When so many value family honour above the right to life, what hope is there for women's rights in Pakistan?
Early last year the Ulster-based charity Romanian Connection received photographs of orphaned girls living in dehumanising conditions in Hincesti, Moldova. After raising £10 million they sent over the largest convoy of humanitarian aid ever to leave Northern Ireland. Jez Higham's report bears witness to the bureaucratic and political difficulties faced by Romanian Connection's leader Karen Kelly and her team of volunteers as they try implementing radical improvements at the orphanage.
With some 7,000 offshore companies and their own clandestine banking system, the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean have long been a favourite tax haven for the world's accountants, but are now seen by financial superpowers as being vulnerable to cheats and money launderers. John Sweeney goes on the trail of a major player on the local financial scene who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances.
Three stories linked by the themes of childhood and responsibility make up the first of seven programmes in which the foreign-affairs series focuses on Europe. Solicitor Laurence Lee travels to Norway to compare the murder of a five-year-old girl by two boys aged six with the Jamie Bulger case; Edward Stourton reports from an orphanage in Portugal that is run by the boys themselves; and Jon Sopel follows the course of a month-long occupation at a French school by 200 pupils.
The foreign-affairs series focuses on genetic experimentation. Isabel Hilton reports from Norway on the Lebensborn, children parented by local woman and Nazi soldiers who were humiliated as outcasts after Germany's defeat. Dr Matt Ridley meets a small "inbred" community in Sardinia, the subject of a new controversy over genetic science, and Edward Stourton meets Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori and his Vatican neighbours to discuss whether the gift of life should be left in God's hands.
The foreign-affairs series focuses on the issue of nationalism. Jonathan Charles assesses the danger posed by Philip Dewinter , the leader of Belgium's far right Vlaams Blok. Frederick Baker visits Austria to meet publisher Lojze Wieser , who has received death threats for his attempts to fight for minority rights. And Dennis Murray takes a look at life under siege in Kosovo with Serb Orthodox priest Father Petar.
Earlier this year cyanide contamination of a tributary of the Danube ruined the lives of Hungarians and Serbs. George Mombiot sees how villagers are coping. Edward Stourton finds out why a Bulgarian town blames a Romanian factory for its problems, and Neal Ascherson reports on the effects of overfishing in the Black Sea.
As the Dutch parliament debates a bill that could legalise euthanasia from the age of 12, Edward Stourton meets a doctor who is already providing terminally ill children with the drugs to end their own lives. Sue Lloyd-Roberts investigates how Latvia's orphanages have become targets for local and foreign sex criminals, and Olenka Frenkiel reports on Moroccan women in France who have been deprived of basic rights by Islamic family law.
A tripartite exploration of religious confticts first visits Germany, where Turkish Islamic fundamentalists have been placed on trial for issuing a fatwa that is regarded as an incitement to murder. Joan Bakewell looks into their attempts to establish an Islamic state within the country. Tim Whewell hears claims of dirty tricks as the Russian state and the Orthodox Church unite against western faiths, while Edward Stourton is in Poland to examine satanic activity in Europe's most devoutly Catholic country.
The final programme in the series examines how the older generation is faring in three European countries. In northern Russia, Sue Lloyd Roberts discovers how the Communist Party's promise of " cradle-to-grave care has failed former workers at a state enterprise. Dr Anna Raeburn finds many retirement-age Dutch choosing to prolong theirworking lives, and, in Austria, Edward Stourton reflects on what elderly people can teach their younger counterparts as he meets a survivor of Nazi eugenics.
Phil Rees reports on the final act in the protracted break-up of Yugoslavia unfolding in the small Adriatic nation of Montenegro. Pro-Western leader Milo Djukanovic is locked in a tense stalemate with Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic over the former's proposals for a new relationship with Serbia.
Last December a 25-year-old tanker, the Erika, broke up and sank off the coast of Brittany, causing one of the worst oil spills Europe has ever seen. The Erika had cleared her safety inspections and was deemed seaworthy by the authorities: it was the accident the industry said could never happen. Tom Mangold investigates what went wrong, and asks why the tanker industry seems unable to steer itself away from the rocks.
Mufadzi Nkomo was raised in rural Zimbabwe but moved to London ten years ago. Now she returns to her homeland to discover how family, friends and fellow citizens from all walks of life, including war veterans and white farmers, are coping with the turbulent political climate that surrounds the fiercely contested elections
Investigative journalist Andrew Jennings meets top athletes, senior officials and Clinton's drugs tsar in this wry look at the costly public relations exercise undertaken by the International Olympic Committee in an attempt to clean up its tarnished image.
An estimated half-a-million women are being transported from eastern Europe to the West by sex traffickers every year as part of a multi-million pound business that is largely risk-free for those responsible. But, for the women, the consequences are often brutal and dangerous. Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a trail of modern-day slavery that leads from Latvia to Denmark, Ireland and the UK.
This week's Correspondent is a journey along the river Euphrates, through Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It traces the political and environmental impact of Turkey's project to harness the river through a series of dams, and exposes the extent to which people's lives in all three countries are being affected by the Turkish scheme.
A film examining Dame Rebecca West 's treatise on the Balkan people which was written oh the eve of the Second World War. The document was largely ignored when first published but was rediscovered and used as a bible for a new generation of foreign correspondents during the Bosnian war. Reporter Janine Di Giovanni uses West's book to try and determine how and why chaos descended on a once peaceful nation.
Tom Gibbs reports on Maria Leticia Burrows, a young orphan who grew up a patriotic American, only to discover that her natural father was still alive in El Salvador. This documentary describes how Maria is reunited with her family and learns that she was the victim of a US-backed programme conducted by the Salvadoran army, in which thousands of children were murdered or abducted in an attempt to extinguish left-wing activism.
In December 1999, Flemish author Ludo de Witte published evidence of Belgian government complicity in the murder of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba 40 years ago. Tonight David Ackerman examines if, at the height of the Cold War, Brussels, London and Washington colluded to eliminate the charismatic African leader feared for his close relations with the Soviets.
Edward Stourton reports on the atrocities committed within the walls of Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, during 15 years of Israeli control.
Two recent images have captured the hatred and violence that has resurfaced in the Middle East. In one, a boy from Gaza is shot dead by Israeli soldiers, in the other, two Israeli reservists are murdered by a Palestinian mob. Jane Corbin asks their families and negotiators whether Jews and Arabs can ever live together in peace.
Tim Hodlin reveals the other face of Iran when he talks to three Iranian families about their lives. A former aide to the Ayatollah Khomeini describes political persecution, a leading psychologist worries about internet pornography and a hairdresser describes the struggle to beat his opium addiction.
The Basque separatist group ETA has killed at least 20 people since the end of the cease-fire last December. Jesus Maria Pedrosa , a councillor who was shot in the head as he walked along the street of his hometown in northern Spain, was one of their victims. Phil Rees investigates the story behind the murder and discovers why, within a society polarised by violence, many young Basque men and women are swayed by the terrorist argument.
Bruno Sorrentino investigates the sinister events in the Mexican border town of Juarez, where over 200 hundred women have been murdered but no one has been convicted. The victims have all been young, female assembly-line workers at the maquiladoras - American-owned factories. This programme asks whether the killings may form part of a backlash by men displaced from their roles in a traditionally male-dominated society.
The world is knocking at India's door to meet an insatiable demand for software engineers. Two young men in southern India share a dream: a life of opportunity in the cradle of hi-tech, California. Srinivas is an ambitious 21-year-old from a high achieving Brahmin family while Braduke is a 28-yearold Christian from an impoverished Keralan village. But what does the information technology revolution offer to two people who seem to have so little in common? BBC South Asia correspondent Mike Wooldridge tells the story of their quest to make it big in Silicon Valley.
When General Pinochet flew home from London he thought his legal troubles were over. But last month, Chilean appeal courtjudge Juan Guzman stunned the world by ordering the former dictator's arrest on charges of kidnapping and murder. Isabel Hilton meets the judge who reveals his mission is to restore justice to Chile.
The new President of the United States is keen to build an anti-ballistic missile shield and Russia is ready with a new, smart missile. In this climate of heightened suspicion, reporter Vladimir Pozner has gained access to Russia's biggest missile base. There he meets the "Rocketchiki" -the desperately underpaid officers who have ultimate responsibility for launching a nuclear attack.
Bridget Kendall reports on Vladimir Putin, the former KGB spy, who remains an enigmatic figure despite a year in office as Russian President. Providing fresh revelations concerning Putin's years with the KGB in East Germany and his bold political decision to order a crackdown on Chechnya, this investigation asks where the man who was plucked from relative obscurity to become leader of the world's largest country is taking Russia now. The programme includes interviews with Kremlin spin doctor Gleb Pavlovsky and former associate Boris Berezovsky, who is currently living in exile.
Since America reintroduced the death penalty a quarter of a century ago, 695 people have been executed and 3,703 are currently on death row. As the debate on capital punishment gains prominence under the Bush administration, correspondent Charles Wheeler tours four death-penalty states. He listens to personal stories of the wrongly accused and monitors growing concern among lawyers that this form of justice is seriously flawed.
Six months ago the headless body of an American missionary was found in Kenya's Rift Valley. A shotgun lay by his side and it appeared to be a straightforward suicide, but could it have been murder? Father John Kaiser had been investigating allegations of murder, rape and corruption at the heart of the Kenyan government. The BBC's East Africa correspondent Andrew Harding takes a chilling look at a murky world far removed from the safaris and the wildlife cliches of modem Kenya.
In the light of recent American and British bombing raids over Iraq, there is growing concern that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction now threaten stability in the Middle East as never before, Investigative film-maker Gwynne Roberts presents compelling evidence that Iraq has also developed a nuclear capability.
Heather Saunders talks about her determination to seek justice for her husband, the British military attache to Greece, who was murdered last June by the terrorist group 17 November.
Edward Stourton investigates the story of maverick farmer-turned-environmental scientist Mark Purdey, who has spent the last 17 years looking for proof that environmental factors cause both BSE and its human equivalent, CJD.
Last June, 58 Chinese immigrants were found suffocated in the back of a lorry at Dover, focusing world attention on Fujian, home to all the victims, and on the Snakeheads, the syndicate who ran a multi-million dollar empire founded on human smuggling. As the British trial of those accused in the Dover case comes to an end, Olenka Frenkiel traces the story back to China, focusing on the family of one of the victims and their fight to try to get back their money from the Snakeheads.
In Albania today there are 10,000 men and boys suffering the effects of the centuries-old tradition of the blood feud. Meanwhile, in France 100,000 people live in polygamous families. Reporter Edward Stourton looks at these two dramatic stories from opposite ends of Europe which show how modern-day ethics are driven by history and tradition, and asks how close are we to achieving equality between the sexes.
In 1999 Andrew Nickson took on the job of leading a new European Union-funded project in Paraguay, South America. Within a year. however, he had been fired - after blowing the whistle on what he saw as abuses in the way the project was being run. Reporter Edward Stourton unravels Nickson's disturbing story and asks what it reveals about the way Brussels is spending tax payers' money.
Edward Stourton explores more rights of citizens across the Europe to life. On the Maltese island of Gozo he hears why many inhabitants opposed the operation to separate conjoined twinsMary and Jodie, while in Germany a couple hope to take advantage of controversial scientific advances in their quest to have a child.
The Turkish lover of a British girl who died in suspicious circumstances in Istanbul in 1995 has been charged with murdering her by the courts in Turkey. Yet while her family still mourn her, he is living freely in Britain, having been granted asylum on the grounds that he would suffer for his politics if he returned home. In the last film of the series on human-rights dilemmas in Europe, reporter Edward Stourton examines the checks and controls that exist for people who seek Britain's protection, and the way we judge those who deserve asylum.
For the past 100 years, South African prisons have been host to a tightly organised criminal gang network called "the numbers". Based on a hierarchy of violence, the fraternity has a mystical reputation among convicts and inspires lifelong devotion in its members. In the years since the end of apartheid, the now non-racist prison authorities have been attempting the audacious feat of breaking the numbers system. In this documentary, members break their silence for the first time to reveal the gang's inner workings.
Nearly three years ago, Omar, an officer in Saddam Hussein 's army, fled Iraq with his wife Laita and their two sons after his refusal to execute deserters put his life in danger. Unable to find asylum in the west, the couple turned to smugglers for help. but only got as far as Istanbul before their money ran out. Leaving Omar in Istanbul. Laita and her children travel by boat, truck, train and on foot to try to reach her British brother in Italy. in this documentary, reporter Nancy Durham follows Laita's hazardous and expensive journey through Europe and interviews the smugglers on the way.
Rio de Janeiro is the second most violent city in the world. On average, seven civilians and two policemen are killed every week. The police have a shoot-to-kill policy in the shantytowns, where drug traffickers rule the locals. This film follows Major Antonio Carballo as he tries to introduce community policing, stamp out violence and corruption within the police, and remove the traffickers.
Eleven-year-old South African boy Nkosi Johnson was born HIV-positive. Adopted by white foster mother Gail Johnson after losing his mother to an Aids-related disease, Nkosi became the focal point in Johnson's campaign to raise awareness of the condition, speaking movingly about his life at the Durban International Aids Conference. For 18 months Inigo Gilmore filmed Nkosi's personal battle with illness, revealing his fear of dying and his mission to highlight the plight of millions of others living with Aids.
Fifteen-year-old Urgyen Trinley Dorje is the 17th Karmapa and the most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. In December 1999, he fled his Tibetan monastery and escaped to India, risking his life crossing the Himalayas as well as capture by the Chinese. His arrival in Dharamsala delighted the exiled Tibetan community there, but threw India and China's fragile relationship into turmoil. Carol Wightman examines the religious and political power of this extraordinary boy and asks how a teenager can have such an impact on international affairs.
Two years ago, Nato bombed Yugoslavia, forcing president Milosevic into retreat from the province, while backing Kosovo's Albanian guerrillas. Reporter David Sells examines the result of the west's failure to find a workable solution to the future governance of Kosovo, as Albanian nationalism spills over into neighbouring Macedonia and southern Serbia, while Kosovo's own Serbian minority are subjected to ethnic cleansing.
The mucuna bean is revolutionising farming in Latin America. Julian Pettifer travels through Guatemala, Honduras and Brazil investigating the powerful properties of this little bean which protects against soil erosion and allows farmers to triple their yield without recourse to fertiliser or pesticides.
FBI counterintelligence specialist Robert Hanssen was a devout Catholic and family man whose professional diligence resulted in him being trusted with the highest possible security clearance. Yet last February, he was charged with spying for the Russians during most of the past 15 years, passing over 6,000 top-secret documents in return for diamonds and cash. Tom Mangold investigates the background to what may be the west's biggest spying case since Kirn Philby.
During the war in Bosnia, a United States fearful of a "body-bag backlash" refused to deploy troops, mobilising spies instead. However, when they then broke the embargo and re-armed one side, the fighting began again, resulting in 15,000 deaths and the beginning of the end for the North Atlantic Alliance. In an investigation spanning six countries, Sheena McDonald uncovers a series of incidents which have tested the Western Alliance to breaking point.
Janine di Giovanni reports on the high record of killings by members of the Jamaican police force. The matter came to a head in March following the deaths of seven young men from the Kingston suburb of Braeton. Although the police claim the men were killed in a 'shoot-out", witnesses and a forensic pathologist disagree. Were these, and other killings, just unnecessary bloodshed?
Falun Gong is a spiritual movement that has its roots in Buddhism and traditional Chinese breathing exercises. Viewed by the Chinese government as the most serious challenge to its power since the foundation of Communist China, the movement was banned in 1999. Phil Rees uncovers the story of a hidden struggle for the minds of millions of believers in China.
Last April news spread around the world of a "slave ship" lost at sea off the coast of South Africa with hundreds of children feared dead. The ship, the Etireno, drifted for days before limping into port and unloading a cargo of children. With no bodies to headline and no chained children, the global media circus moved on. But there were on board 23 children who had been sold into slavery. Olenka Frenkiel meets the children, parents and traffickers involved and investigates Africa's modem slave trade and the routine shipment that went wrong.
Arguably known as the world's greatest footballing country, Brazil's national game is currently facing its worst ever crisis. Qualification for next year's World Cup is in severe jeopardy, but troubles on the pitch are exceeded only by allegations of corruption made off it. Paul Kenyon reports on the country's government inquiry which has heard allegations of bribery and corruption at the very highest levels of Brazilian football, including reports of human trafficking in underage players to clubs in Europe.
Over $70m of diamonds leave Sierra Leone every year, many smuggled out by the African country's rebel forces to fund their war against the government. After a decade that has seen thousands die, both sides are holding to a peace brokered by the UN. But, in the process, neither the UN nor Britain has regulated the diamond trade itself - the root cause of the war. Ishmahil Blagrove examines if the precious stones will ever be cleansed of African blood.
Egyptian feminist Nawal El-Saadawi has been accused of renouncing Islam and faces imprisonment and compulsory divorce from her husband. Samira Hepburn reports on the court case that will determine EI-Saadawi's fate.
John Kampfnertravels to Ghana to trace the roots of the anti-capitalist movement and confronts leaders of the IMF and the World Bank over the dangerous flaws that remain at the heart of global economic policy.
In the follow-up to the acclaimed film Killers Don't Cry, reporter Alan Little follows the release and possible rehabilitation of Mogamat Benjamin and Erefaan Jacobs - two notorious figures who were exposed in the original documentary as the highest-ranking members of a gang system that ruled South Africa's Pollsmoor maximum-security prison. Benjamin, who has killed more people than he can remember, returns to try to rebuild trust with the wife and daughter he raped, while Jacobs journeys home to the mother he once threatened to murder.
Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports from India, where she learns that some of the 80 million impoverished children who have to work in order to survive have ideas of their own to improve their situation.
Phil Rees travels with Northern Alliance forces as they journey from the key city of Mazar e-Sharif , through the wastelands of Afghanistan, to the now fallen capital of Kabul. Now that the Taliban have fled this ancient city, Rees asks the question of what truly lies ahead for the people of Afghanistan, considering the Alliance's atrocious record on human rights?
As America's first female National Security Advisor, Rice has a reputation for toughness. In consultation with George W Bush on an almost daily basis, she is currently playing a pivotal role in the war against terrorism. In the last of this week's films, ex-BBC Washington correspondent Gavin Esler traces her journey from a childhood in racially segregated Alabama to becoming one of the most powerful figures in the US.
In the first of two films exploring the tensions between America and the Muslim world, Syrian-born writer Rana Kabbani travels through the Middle East seeking to understand the strength of support for Osama bin Laden 's anti-US stance. Concludes next Sunday.
In the second of two films exploring the rift between America and the Muslim world, black US writer Bonnie Greer returns to Chicago to give voice to ordinary Americans who are baffled by the terrorist attacks. Passionate in her defence of America as a country of opportunity and liberalism, Greer challenges the notion of the country as "the Great Arrogance" and finds among everyday people a new resolve to engage with the world and a desire to understand why they have been so demonised.
Film-maker Taghi Amirani 's documentary about life inside Makaki, a refugee camp in Taliban-held territory in Nimruz Province near the Afghan-Iranian border. The film was transformed with the fall of Kabul and became a record of historical change captured in a Taliban camp.
As ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic prepares to stand trial for war crimes in the Hague next month, Nancy Durham investigates how the Serbian authorities tried to cover up the mass murder in 1999 of civilians in Kosovo, an atrocity that came to light only after what seemed to be a routine traffic accident.
In north-east China during the Second World War, the Japanese army built a complex of research laboratories to develop deadly microbes, such as cholera, anthrax and bubonic plague, into weapons of mass destruction. These were tested on human guinea pigs, many hundreds of thousands of whom died. Anita McNaught follows some of the surviving victims - Chinese PoWs and civilians - as they seek compensation from the Japanese government.
The first of a two-part documentary examining the military tactics, intelligence-gathering methods and the thinking of the Israelis and the Palestinians in the conflict in the Middle East. Tonight's first documentary follows Sayaret Golani and Egoz, two Israeli elite commando units, taking part in snatch and ambush missions deep in Palestinian territory. Reporter John Kampfner reveals the criteria by which the military decide whether or not to take someone alive.
Concluding the two-part report about how both the Israelis and Palestinians pursue the conflict in the Middle East on the ground. This film focuses on the nexus of "terrorist" street fighters in three West Bank towns as it sees how the Palestinians are waging their war of attrition against Israel through suicide bombings and shootings. Hidden in the concrete warren of the Jenin refugee camp is a bomb factory where the suicide belts and the explosives are made. Here, an engineer explains to reporter John Kampfner how it is often Israeli soldiers, desperate to support their drug habits, who are selling weapons to the Palestinians.
Six months after the BBC was banned and he was deported, John Sweeney travels undercover across Zimbabwe to report on the horror of the regime run by Robert Mugabe , speaking to eyewitnesses who relate accounts of murder and torture on a mass scale.
Phil Rees interviews Nuon Chea, former Khmer Rouge leader and deputy to Pol Pot, who remains at large and shows no remorse over the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians.
The Catholic Church did not tell the locals that Fr Fortune was a brutal, predatory paedophile. They organised delegations to two Bishops - wrote to the Papal Nuncio and the Vatican. The church promised it would do something. It never did.
What makes a young man give up a comfortable home in Britain and go to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban? British Muslim Ajmal Khan sets out with reporter Sue Lloyd-Roberts to locate his brother, now a prisoner of war, and discover his motives.
On his accession in 1999, the young King of Morocco vowed to embrace reforms, but his opponents, many of whom are women, are applying the brakes. Anita McNaught examines who is threatened by the thought of change in this traditional society.
The war in Afghanistan has been a man's war, with women absent and silent. This film, however, tells of the struggle waged by the country's women during 23 years of relentless conflict, a period in which ruthless gender apartheid was designed to erase them from view. Olenka Frenkiel reports on how they have been joined by US women, including Meryl Streep, in their struggle.
President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine is currently embroiled in a scandal of gargantuan proportions. In the first of a new six-part series of European investigations from the Correspondent strand, reporter Tom Mangold pieces together an extraordinary mystery story involving high-level conspiracy, secret tape recordings, alleged government corruption and a$6m moving target.
Continuing the new series of European investigations in the Correspondent strand. As human-rights concerns push the issue of arms sales up the agenda, the Government continues to claim it has an ethical foreign policy. Yet the single biggest arms manufacturer is a British company. Novelist Will Self looks for the truth behind Britain's continuing involvement in the sale of weapons. Talking to manufacturers, industry spokesmen and attending an arms fair with MoD officials, Self assesses if Britain's defence exports are a source of credit or condemnation.
In 1996, Regina Louf approached the Belgian authorities to claim that she had suffered years of sexual abuse as one of the victims of a paedophile network that included politicians and other members of the country's elite. Correspondent's series of European investigations continues with journalist Olenka Frenkiel 's assessment of the case, during which there was a concerted bid to dismiss witness evidence as being the result of false-memory syndrome. Interviews with key witnesses and the policeman at the centre of the investigation -who claims his inquiry was blocked for threatening to reveal too much - provide an insight into events that caused an international storm.
When the battered body of a senior naval officer was found floating in the sea by Taiwanese fishermen, the murder trail led to the uncovering of corruption in French politics. In this Correspondent film, journalist Julian O'Halloran examines a case that not only provoked a backlash against the French socialists but also pointed to the existence of a major suspect hiding out with impunity in London.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is an international fugitive, one of the most wanted men in the world. Accused of leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, he has twice been indicted for war crimes by European justices in the Hague. Just weeks ago he narrowly evaded capture when Nato forces swooped on an enclave in Republika Srbska. In this Correspondent film, journalist Maggie O'Kane goes in search of Karadzic, talking to his relatives, supporters, and former secret service operatives.
Minister Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, has been denounced by some as the "minister of rage" and the "black Hitler". Accused of anti-semitism, he has been banned from Britain since 1986. In this Correspondent investigation, Gary Young examines what Farrakhan means to African-Americans, and asks why a leader of Black America is officially unwelcome in this country. Is the problem the messenger or the message?
When Israeli tanks rolled in to Bethlehem at the beginning of April more than 200 Palestinians, many of them heavily armed Islamic militants, sought refuge in one of the holiest Christian churches. Together with some 30 priests from four different Christian orders they remained at the Church of the Nativity for 38 days, surrounded by the Israeli army. This Correspondent special report reveals how the siege, in which eight men died, was brought to an end.
It has been observed that, when international peacekeepers are sent to bring law and order to war-torn countries, a burgeoning sex industry tends to follow in their wake. In this Correspondent investigation, reporter Sue Lloyd-Roberts visits Bosnia and Kosovo to assess this phenomenon, and reveals that girls as young as 15 are being forced to have sex with UN personnel, while international soldiers and police officers at the highest level turn a blind eye.
Despite international aid being sent to Iraq, Saddam Hussein continues to insist that his people are falling victim to western sanctions. In this Correspondent investigation, reporter John Sweeney travels to northern Iraq to discover why desperately needed medicines are failing to get through to the people who need them.
Ten years on from the riots that ravaged Los Angeles, the city's police force is in crisis amid a 200 per cent rise in violent crime in the last year alone. In this Correspondent investigation, reporter Josh Dugdale visits a busy division to assess attempts at regaining the initiative.
In the same year - 1948 - that Burma became independent, its minority people, known as the Karen, declared themselves a separate nation and started a guerrilla war against the new government. In this Correspondent film, Frank Smith reports on the work of US dentist and ex-special forces soldier Shannon Allyson as he contributes humanitarian support to the rebels in a campaign largely unpublicised outside the country's borders.
The 1992 environment summit in Rio offered some hope that the Amazon forests in Brazil could survive development. Ten years on, reporter Adrian Cowell returns to the rainforest in this investigative film for the Correspondent strand, and discovers that the rate of deforestation has actually increased by a staggering 40 per cent.
Days after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, an exhibition of photographs, donated by anyone who captured a moment from 11 September on film, opened in an empty Manhattan shop in aid of the those orphaned by the calamity. In this special Correspondent report, Reggie Nadelson tracks down some of the photographers and their subjects, and records how they have coped since that terrible day.
Bogota in Colombia is regarded as the kidnap capital of the world - two thirds of all kidnappings take place in the South American country. The kidnappers are often political rebels, but now criminal gangs are moving in and choosing random targets. In this investigative Correspondent film, reporter Guy Smith tells the story of three families whose lives are in limbo after the kidnap of loved ones.
An investigation into how asyium seekers have been "sold" to third nations for millions of dollars by the Australian government. In this Correspondent film, reporter Sarah Macdonald goes undercover on the small Pacific island of Nauru which has become a closed jail to 800 Afghan and Iraqi asylum seekers for almost a year. She examines claims that this solution was just a political vote-winner and whether claims of brutality are justified.
In tonight's Correspondent, reporter Olenka Frenkiel explores the impact of the economic catastrophe that has befallen Argentina, through the experience of one woman, Argelia, and her family. With Argelia beating at the closed doors of her bank in a fruitless attempt to get at her frozen savings, her teenage sons believe she is on the verge of insanity. Meanwhile, her partner's solution to the unfolding crisis is to stand for the presidency.
A powerful and disturbing Correspondent investigation into the proliferation of child rape and Aids in South Africa. Allan Little presents a report that the South African Broadcasting Corporation has refused to screen, which asks if the country's entire moral code is becoming unhinged.
In Japan's cities, hundreds of thousands of young men are turning into recluses, refusing even to leave their rooms. Western psychologists describe this social withdrawal, or "hikikomori", as an epidemic. Reporter Phil Rees meets mothers whose sons have retreated into self-imposed exile in their own homes, asks what has driven young Japanese men into this hermitic existence, and what can be done to resolve the situation.
Fifteen-year-old Keisha assaulted a fellow teenage girl but, instead of going to court to face trial and a criminal prosecution, her punishment is being decided around a table by members of her community, as part of the new Youth Justice system in New Zealand. This unprecedented social experiment has been adopted by the UK - but does it actually work? Sarah Macdonald investigates.
A shoot-out in an Italian village near Naples left three people dead and two badly injured. A run-in between two Mafia clans is nothing new, but in this case there was a crucial difference -the victims and alleged perpetrators were both women. Juliet Dwek reports on the new "equal opportunities" Mafia.
An investigation into reports of British brutality during the crushing of the Mau Mau rebellion in pre-independence Kenya. Systematic torture, mass rape and murder are all revealed. Some of those who suffered tell their stories for the first time, and it is claimed at least 40,000 more Kenyans died than are listed in British official figures.
Claire is a sperm-bank baby who has just turned 18. But unlike other donor babies, she's been told who her father is, as part of a unique experiment in naming the donors. Will she meet him? Bill is 57 - but like an estimated million other American donor babies he doesn't have Claire's choice.
Five Britons are in jail in Saudi Arabia after confessing to planting bombs that killed westerners. However a sixth man, Ron Jones , claims he was tortured to confess to a bombing and can prove it. John Sweeney asks whether the real culprits are extremists loyal to Osama bin Laden , and whether the House of Saud is in a state of denial over the threat to the west and their own grip on power.
As America once again prepares for possible war, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is stationed in the north Arabian Gulf, ready to attack at President Bush's command. This Correspondent special meets some of the 6,000-strong crew, ranging from a welfare officer to a pilot flying missions in pursuit of Al-Qaeda forces, as well as the only Muslim serving on board.
On 17 November 1997, 58 tourists were murdered in Luxor, Egypt. Correspondent joined relatives from three families of victims as they returned to try to find out why and how it happened.
In a special Correspondent to coincide with Holocaust memorial week, Fergal Keane investigates how a terrible slaughter, three quarters of a century ago, has returned to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies.
Chinese couples who are too busy to find a partner are brought together in their hundreds by Hu Yanping at her voluntary dating agency. But director Jiang Yue candidly discovers that Hu's life is a far cry from her matchmaking. She's a divorce lawyer, advising women to leave abusive husbands, and her own marriage is not ideal.
Beginning a four-part Correspondent special in which reporter Ben Anderson visits the countries branded "evil" by George W Bush. His first destination is North Korea, a hermit kingdom which lives with paranoid propaganda and fear of nuclear war.
In the second of a four-part Correspondent special, reporter Ben Anderson poses as an archaeology enthusiast to gain access to Iraq, where he talks to locals about the impending war.
Floundering under the ruinous regime of Robert Mugabe , families fight tooth and nail to hold on to their land and livelihoods in Zimbabwe. In this Correspondent film one such family, armed with a camera, document their violent struggle with state-sponsored settlers, economic meltdown and fast-approaching famine, in a country that was once dubbed "the bread basket of Africa".
In the third part of a Correspondent special exploring the countries that George W Bush has condemned, Ben Anderson travels to Syria, Libya and then on to Iran, where he is arrested and held for seven days accused of spying.
In the last of a four-part Correspondent special, reporter Ben Anderson is in Cuba. He finds life in Havana stifling, while in the countryside he searches for Castro's revolutionary legacy.
Who is jostling for a slice of power if Saddam Hussein fails? Representatives from the three disparate groups that make up Iraq are trying to hammer out a unified front. America, meanwhile, would welcome a new government that is sympathetic to the West. In this Correspondent film, reporter John Sweeney gleans information from inside Iraq, the corridors of power at Opec and at world summits to build a picture of how Iraq might look without its dictator.
Liberalism is the watchword in cities like New York, but in a part of small-town America racism is still a major cause for concern. In this Correspondent film, reporter Tom Mangold unfolds the story of an undercover cop in Tulia, Texas, who arrested one tenth of the town's black population on alleged narcotics charges. Five cases have already been overturned, others are on appeal, championed by a new campaign by the US Civil Rights movement to seejustice. Producer Eamon Hardy ; Editor Karen O'Connor.
Dzerzhinsk, a Russian city 240 miles east of Moscow, has the dubious honour of being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most chemically polluted town in the world. Reporter Tim Samuels recorded a series of in-depth interviews with the inhabitants of Dzerzhinsk for the Correspondent strand, providing a revealing insight into what life is really like for the beleaguered populace.
Mordechai Vanunu has been imprisoned for 16 years for exposing Israel's secret nuclear bomb factory to the world. Vanunu is seen as a traitor in his own country. He has been abandoned by most of his family and has spent 11 years in solitary confinement. Today only an American couple, who have legally adopted him, are among the few visitors he is permitted.
The US military is expanding its role into public high schools. As part of the Correspondent strand, reporter Charles Wheeler explores whetherthis is the solution to the problem of the country's troubled inner-city schools or part of a recruitment drive targeting the younger generation?
Any day now, the government will finally stop deliberating on the euro. They are due to tell us whether or not Britain has past the five Gordon Brown tests. This is arguably our biggest economic decision since the Battle of Hastings. So, BBC economics editor, Evan Davis previews the government's decision, by taking a whistle-stop tour of four eurozone countries.
Controversial Arab news broadcaster al-Jazeera has said it was justified in showing images of dead and captured coalition soldiers in the Iraq war.
Saving Private Jessica: Fact or fiction Correspondent challenges the Pentagon's version of a story that boosted American morale during a sticky point in the Iraq War as part of its investigation into allied propaganda.
In June 2002 Israel began the construction of a massive security fence in the area of the Green Line, the unofficial border where Israel meets the occupied West Bank. This Correspondent film examines its huge implications.
In the Philippines, where Osama Bin Laden 's right-hand man plotted many terror attacks, US troops are helping soldiers deal with brutal Islamic militants who behead hostages. However, some mistrust the Americans' motives - including the daughter of the former president, who's now also a politician.
"There were no real rules before the war except money and power. Now there are no rules at all." These are the words uttered by a 31-year-old doctor in Iraq as she battles to save the victim of yet another drive-by shooting. John Sweeney reports for Correspondent as America struggles to deal with the dangerous postwar combination of chaos, anger and rising fundamentalism in the country.
Leader of the most secret society on earth, North Korea's Kim Jong II is currently engaging the US in a game of nuclear brinksmanship. Correspondent talks to people who have been close to Kim, including his former bodyguard, US diplomats and an actress he wanted to make films for him, to reveal the truth about this reclusive man's life.
Following US National Guard Special Forces in Afghanistan as they go on the trail of Taliban and al-Qaeda members. Using dramatic footage, this Correspondent documentary reveals how difficult rooting out the Taliban is proving to be.
Conflict looms as a floating clinic sails into Catholic seas. Correspondent has exclusive access to a Dutch doctor's boat which offers abortions to women in Poland, where abortion is not legally available.
British cameraman James Miller was shining a torch onto a white flag when he was shot dead in May in Palestine. Within seven weeks, in a three-mile radius, an American and another Briton were also victims. James's friend, John Sweeney investigates the state of Israel when even foreigners are under threat in this Correspondent report.
Why has Palestinian President Yasser Arafat become an outcast in the eyes of so many? Correspondent travels to Palestine to investigate his commitment to peace and whether a settlement can ever be achieved in the Middle East without the man who has led the Palestinians for nearly four decades. Jeremy Bowen , the BBC's former Middle East correspondent, reports.
It is wedding season in India. All over the country the booming middle class is spending a fortune on dowries - bikes, fridges, microwaves, cars and large amounts of cash - all in the attempt to find a suitable husband.
Mexico City is a crime-infested metropolis, and its badly paid police force has become inefficient and unmotivated. To help officers in their huge task, Rudolph Giuliani was hired to emulate the staggering success he achieved in cutting New York City's crime rate. Correspondent follows the clean-up bid by the ex-mayor's team and Mexican police.
In one of Africa's "dirty wars", child soldiers are being equipped with guns made in Eastern Europe. In the Balkans, meanwhile, innocent people are being killed with guns that finally end up in the hands of British criminals. David Akinsanya reports on international arms trafficking in this Correspondent film for the Guns and Gangs season.