Gold fever is sweeping across South America. Nowhere is it more lethal than in Colombia, where the gold rush has become a new axle in Colombia's civil war. Turf wars are erupting between paramilitaries, and leftist rebel groups fighting to take control of mining regions. It's fueling an old ideological conflict and has displacing hundreds of people.
The United States is a deeply religious country, over 90% believe in god and 80% believe in miracles. For the US military, dealing with its own religious identity has become an internal battle.
One week after Donald J. Trump was sworn in, the 45th president of the United States signed an executive order titled "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States". The order described the new measures as a means to "keep radical Islamic terrorists" out of the US and included a ban on immigrants from 7 Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. While the order suspended entry for all citizens of the aforementioned countries for a total of 90 days, it went a step further with banning refugees for an additional month, at 120 days, and barred Syrian refugees from entering the US indefinitely. Abdul Ghani Abdul Jawad and his family are among countless people who were impacted by the travel ban. With two sick children under the age of 10 in urgent need of medical attention and revoked permission to travel and re-settle in New York, the future is bleak for the Abdul Jawad family and countless others like them.
Fault Lines investigates the legacy and impact of sex abuse by UN peacekeepers in Haiti.
Thousands of people were disappeared during the civil war. Fault Lines meets families still searching for justice.
Fault Lines investigates the Alabama prison system, as prisoners lead a bold campaign to reform it from the inside.
From his long, unwieldy press conferences to the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice in prime time, Donald Trump delivers on spectacle. There is conflict, there is humiliation, and there is supreme confidence - dramatic elements pulled straight out of a reality TV playbook that for Trump has been years in the making. "The Apprentice", a show helmed and co-produced by Donald Trump, solidified him as a gospel of success, despite being plagued by bankruptcy and scandal. Building on this image, and through similar projects, Trump has arguably become a brand unto himself, endearing him to a segment of the American public that supported him all the way to the White House. Now in the early days of his presidency, the showmanship continues, as 24-hour news channels race to cover his every move. Is Donald Trump in his own reality show? And what does it mean for the United States? Josh Rushing explores Trump's reality TV rise from a C-list New York celebrity to the most powerful office in the world.
In El Salvador, abortion is banned under any circumstances. But increasingly the law is being taken to new extremes. Correspondent Evan Williams investigates.
As U.S. energy companies work to discredit climate science, Fault Lines asks what a Trump administration will mean for global moves to combat climate change.
Fault Lines investigates what it means to be undocumented in Trump's America -- and how communities across the country are fighting back against deportation.
How is the US opioid crisis shaping the next generation of Americans left behind by addicted parents?
Fault Lines examines the rise of hate in the United States and the toll it is taking on communities across the country.
Is an equitable recovery possible for Houston, or has the storm deepened the city's social and economic divide?
Fault Lines investigates the scope and impact of police and FBI surveillance of black activists in the US.
A look at the Trump administration's regulations cull and the consequences for health, safety and the environment.
A year into the Trump administration, how have GOP and Democrat identities changed and what does it mean for the US?
It's been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city's police department and the community. The protests captured national attention - prompting a federal investigation - and several high-profile efforts at reform. Now a new scandal is threatening to undermine those efforts, raising questions about the depth of police corruption in Baltimore, and the institutional forces that allow corrupt officers to remain on the street. Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang - robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail. The unit operated with impunity in part because of the way police complaints are investigated. In Baltimore - like many other cities - if a police officer is accused of wrongdoing, the complaint is investigated behind closed doors by the police department's own Internal Affairs Division. Fault Lines investigates how this latest police scandal once again places Baltimore at the centre of a national debate over how and whether police departments can be held accountable to the communities they police.
Indigenous women in the United States experience some of the highest rates of violence and murder in the country, according to federal data.
In "Targeted by a Text", Fault Lines investigates how a powerful technology, Pegasus, is being used to hack into the iPhones of human rights activists, dissidents, lawyers and journalists.
In License to Hate, Fault Lines travels to El Paso, Texas and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to meet the communities targeted in the two deadliest white supremacist attacks of the past year. Through expert interviews, we examine the white supremacist ideology that connects these attacks and how racist discourse has seeped into the mainstream.
