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S11.E1 ∙ Black in Trump's America

Fri, Jan 27, 2017

In 2008 Barack Obama called slavery 'America's original sin'. How much difference did his eight-year presidency make to the lives of African-Americans? And what does Donald Trump's election say about attitudes to race in the U.S. today?

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S11.E2 ∙ The Chimp Smugglers

Fri, Feb 03, 2017

BBC journalists, posing as prospective buyers, infiltrate a global baby chimpanzee trafficking ring to discover how criminals are flouting international law.

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S11.E3 ∙ Killing for Conservation

Fri, Feb 10, 2017

India is that rare thing in animal conservation: a success story. Nowhere exemplifies that success more than Kaziranga National Park. But for many, the gains have come at a cost.

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S11.E4 ∙ Nuclear Test Survivors

Fri, Feb 17, 2017

Our World has been to Kazakhstan to meet an extraordinary survivor, a celebrated artist and anti-nuclear campaigner.

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S11.E5 ∙ Killing for Honour

Fri, Feb 24, 2017

Our World's, Namak Khoshnaw has been to Northern Iraq to tell the story of one woman, Sunwr Omar, whose father is on the run accused of her killing.

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S11.E6 ∙ Cambodia: The Power of Memory

Fri, Mar 03, 2017

Yalda Hakim has been to Cambodia to meet Hollywood director Angelina Jolie, to discuss her new film on the Cambodian genocide, which cost more than two million lives.

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S11.E7 ∙ Freedom and Fear in Myanmar

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Our World investigates allegations of mass murder and rape among Myanmar's displaced Rohingya minority. Asking why Burmese leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has failed to stop what the UN is calling crimes against humanity.

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S11.E8 ∙ Return to Mosul

Fri, Mar 31, 2017

A battle is raging in the Iraqi city of Mosul. BBC Journalist Basheer Al-Zaidi, who grew up in the city, returns to meet friends who have lived through IS rule.

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S11.E9 ∙ Living With The Dead

Fri, Apr 21, 2017

The dead are a constant presence in the Toraja area of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Centuries old traditions mean the dead share space with the living. Sahar Zand Reports.

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S11.E10 ∙ Banished for Bleeding

Fri, Apr 28, 2017

In the Bajhang district of western Nepal, centuries-old taboos about menstruation still affect the lives of girls and women. Our World meets the girls and women who want the centuries old taboos around menstruation to end.

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S11.E11 ∙ Srebrenica: Denying Genocide

Fri, May 05, 2017

In the town where Europe's worst atrocity since WW II took place, some local politicians, including the new mayor, refuse to accept that genocide happened here, despite the findings of international courts and the testimony of survivors.

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S11.E12 ∙ Transgender Family

Fri, May 12, 2017

In Ecuador a transgender couple became an international news sensation by announcing that he, Fernando Machado, was pregnant by his transgender girlfriend, Diane Rodriguez.

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S11.E13 ∙ My Child, ECT and Me

Thu, May 18, 2017

Children in America are undergoing electric shock treatment in growing numbers. Now known as Electro Convulsive Therapy - or ECT - the controversial treatment is being used on severely autistic children who are prone to violent self-harming behaviour. For the first time, BBC cameras have been given access to film a child being treated using ECT. Our World's, Chris Rogers, meets the parents who say the treatment is improving their children's lives - and the critics who say it is barbaric.

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S11.E14 ∙ The Sex Slaves of Al Shabaab

Fri, May 26, 2017

For six years the Kenyan army has been fighting Islamist militants in Somalia known as 'Al Shabaab'. As part of an exclusive investigation, the BBC has discovered that Kenyan women are being abducted and trafficked as sex slaves to Al Shabaab camps. Anne Soy meets women who've managed to escape from the camps, and an Al Shabaab insider who reveals for the first time, how vulnerable women are captured and imprisoned.

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S11.E15 ∙ Syria - Football on the Front Line

Fri, Jun 02, 2017

Richard Conway spends time with Syria's national football team. He discovers that, for some Syrians, the country's football team appears to transcend the nation's deep divisions.

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S11.E16 ∙ Homeless in Hawaii

Fri, Jun 16, 2017

Street people and homeless enablers take on neighborhoods and the people who live there.

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S11.E17 ∙ Goodbye Aleppo

Fri, Jun 23, 2017

From Amazon.com "Four citizen journalists document their final days in Aleppo as the battle for the city rages around them. The friends are trapped by the constant shelling as government forces creep further into the remains of East Aleppo. Told from a first-hand perspective, Goodbye Aleppo is a gripping story of defiance and vitality in the face of tragic loss - of family, of friends, of a city, and of a dream."

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S11.E18 ∙ Murder on Campus

Fri, Jun 30, 2017

Student Mashal Khan was murdered by a mob on a university campus in Pakistan, after he was accused of blasphemy.

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S11.E19 ∙ Sicily Overwhelmed with Yalda Hakim

Fri, Jul 07, 2017

Sicily is on the frontline of Italy's migrant crisis. More than 80,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy in 2017, and 2000 have died in the attempt.

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S11.E20 ∙ Praying for Asylum

Fri, Jul 14, 2017

In the Netherlands, and across Europe, thousands of Iranian refugees are converting to Christianity. Are these converts 'born again Christians' or simply praying for asylum?

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S11.E21 ∙ The Battle for Raqqa

Fri, Jul 21, 2017

In the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group that calls itself 'Islamic State' is under siege. Its fighters are surrounded by a Kurdish-led, US-backed coalition. Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

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S11.E22 ∙ Resistance and Repression in Venezuela

Fri, Jul 28, 2017

In Venezuela daily protests against President Maduro's government have resulted in scores of deaths. Inflation, malnutrition and even starvation are on the rise. For Our World, Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas.

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S11.E23 ∙ China's New Silk Road

Fri, Aug 11, 2017

The BBC's China Editor, Carrie Gracie, has travelled from the east of China to the west of Europe, to hear from people who live along the route of China's new Silk Road.

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S11.E24 ∙ Life Under the Caliphate

Fri, Aug 18, 2017

Our World's, Yalda Hakim has been to Mosul to meet survivors and discover how they endured three years of brutal rule under ISIS, and whether they can now rebuild their destroyed and divided city

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S11.E25 ∙ Conflict and Cholera: Yemen's Catastrophe

Fri, Sep 22, 2017

The youngest and most vulnerable are paying a terrible price for over two years of war in Yemen as food, medical shortages and now a deadly cholera outbreak take their toll.

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S11.E26 ∙ Madagascar's Sapphire Rush

Fri, Sep 29, 2017

Tens of thousands of Madagascar's poor are flocking to the country's remote forests to illegally mine for sapphires. But the wealth they seek comes at an environmental cost.

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S11.E27 ∙ In the Shadow of El Che

Fri, Oct 06, 2017

What has Che Guevara's legacy been in Cuba, and would he recognize the country that it has now become? The BBC's Cuba correspondent, Will Grant, reports from Havana.

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S11.E28 ∙ Welcome to Germany

Fri, Oct 13, 2017

Over a million refugees have entered Germany in the past three years, more than anywhere else in Europe. What has the effect been on the country and the migrants themselves?

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S11.E29 ∙ Songbirds for Sale

Fri, Oct 20, 2017

The songbird trade in Indonesia is booming, causing dozens of protected species to be threatened with extinction. Victoria Gill travels to meet conservationists in search of a safe haven for some of the world's most endangered songbirds.

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S11.E30 ∙ The Forgotten Children of the Ukraine

Fri, Oct 27, 2017

In Ukraine more than 30 thousand children with disabilities are living in state run institutions. A few are orphans but most have families, yet spend much of their lives in children's homes, some in shockingly bad conditions.

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S11.E31 ∙ Escaping Isis

Fri, Nov 03, 2017

As they retreat from Northern Iraq ISIS has left thousands of women and children behind. A desperate effort is now underway to reunite these women and children with the families they have been separated from.

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S11.E32 ∙ Rebuilding Puerto Rico

Fri, Nov 10, 2017

Two months ago Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory of Puerto Rico, depriving many of electricity and clean water, and destroying vital infrastructure. President Trump blames its slow recovery on an already poorly managed economy.

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S11.E33 ∙ The Butcher of Bosnia

Fri, Nov 17, 2017

Ratko Mladic was the army general who became known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", who waged a brutal campaign during the Bosnian war and was jailed for life for directing his troops in the worst atrocities in post-war Europe.

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S11.E34 ∙ The Massacre at Tula Toli

Fri, Nov 24, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Gabriel Gatehouse visits refugee camp in to hear from survivors of a massacre.

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S11.E35 ∙ Why Can't My Child Speak?

Fri, Dec 01, 2017

Over the course of a week at at New York City summer camp, Our World hears from parents and children about living with the condition of selective mutism.

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S11.E36 ∙ The Return

Fri, Dec 08, 2017

At just three days old, Kati Pohler was left on a street in the Chinese city of Suzhou, then adopted by an American family. 20 years later she returns to meet her birth parents.

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