Opposing Autocracy
A look at how autocratic leaders and tyrants undermine democracy, media failings, and those willing to challenge power.
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The COP26 Climate Summit | Start Here
What is COP26 and can it save the planet?
Unrelinquished: When America’s gun laws fail abuse victims
An exclusive investigation exposes how US gun laws have failed to prevent domestic abusers from killing their partners.
How Democracy Dies
A look at Hungary and Myanmar and how they expose some of democracy’s different vulnerabilities.
Carbon Capture: A green way forward?
Or is it just a way of masking the issues?
Europe’s Migrants: Capturing the Crisis
“The refugee crisis has moved me emotionally more than anything else in my career.”
Democracy for Sale
Repression and rage - an exploration of how corruption and inequality have led to the failure of democracy in Lebanon.
Colombia: Killing the Peace
Have this year’s protests in Colombia reignited a deadly uprising supposedly settled five years ago?
The Era of Darkness
In the 1990s, Afghan cinema enters an era of darkness as the Taliban take control of the country.
Lebanon on the brink | Start Here
Why Lebanon’s problems are so hard to fix.
Climate change and famine | Start Here
Why people in Madagascar are starving.
Push: The Global Housing Crisis
Leilani Farha leads an investigation into the global housing crisis for the United Nations.
Gaza: 60-Minute Warning
Video inside Gaza towers shows residents and workers counting down to an Israeli missile attack while evacuating.
Darien Gap: A Migrant Journey
“We were listening to stories that make you feel powerless, where you cannot help them”.
Sea Level Rise: Can we stop it?
Can we turn back the tide?
Miscarriage of Justice: A fight for women’s rights in El Salvador
The empowering story of Teodora Vasquez who was imprisoned for 10 years under El Salvador’s strict abortion law.
The Communist Revolution
The late 1970s became known as the golden age of cinema to some Afghan filmmakers as the communists took power.
Hong Kong: Candle in the Wind
A year after Hong Kong introduced a draconian security law, 101 East meets the activists who refuse to be silenced.
Dispatches from Sudan’s Revolution: Suddenly TV
Amidst the 2019 Sudanese revolution, a group of friends create a make-believe TV station to capture the historic moment.
Extreme Weather: Are we ready?
The modelling doesn't look good.