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Our World

Ukraine's Frontline Bakery
As the war in eastern Ukraine continues, in the frontline town of Marinka, a new bakery has opened which brings some comfort and sustenance to war weary locals.
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China's Chat Girls
Lele Tao is an internet superstar in China's $3 billion 'live streaming' industry. With more than a million fans, she can earn thousands of dollars a day.
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Russia's Ghost Towns
Hundreds of industrial towns across Russia face extinction. Once the pride of the Soviet Union, many have now been abandoned and millions have lost jobs and homes after the collapse of their local industry. The government now has a plan to save at least some of Russia's dying towns.
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France's Stolen Children
More than 2,000 children were taken to France from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion between the 1960s and early 1980s, as part of a French government plan to repopulate rural areas. Promising a better life and an education.
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The Trauma of War
For nearly 40 years Afghanistan has been in a constant state of war. How has this affected the mental health of its people? Sahar Zand reports.
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'We Lived Through a War' Compton, LA
Gangs are still a fact of life in Compton but homicide and gun violence have fallen significantly because of fewer turf wars over drugs, better policing and a proactive Mayor. Though, years of extreme gang violence have taken their toll.
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Crushing Dissent in Egypt
As Egypt's president al-Sisi looks set to be re-elected in March, Orla Guerin meets the victims of alleged human rights violations by his regime.
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Russia's 'Fake' Election
Ksenia Sobchak is challenging Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency. But some say she's a fake candidate, running a no-hope race to boost the Kremlin's democratic credentials.
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Working for the Enemy
Collaborating with Israel can mean prison or death in Gaza. So why do it? Murad Batal Shishani travels to Israel, and Gaza, to unravel a complex web of desperation and exploitation.
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Iraq's War on Meth - with Yalda Hakim
Basra, is in the grip of a crystal meth epidemic. Yalda Hakim has gained access to Basra's police SWAT team, and the prison where dealers and addicts are all kept in the same cell. Reporting on the tough approach to drug related crime.
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Mexico's Streets of Blood
Mexico's murder rate reached a record high in 2017, with close to 30,000 dying in drug related violence. The coastal city of Acapulco is particularly dangerous, in the grip of vicious turf wars between gangs over control of the drug trade.
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My Stolen Childhood
Our World's award-wining film, Women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called 'Trokosi', where girls are forced to 'pay' for sins of family members.
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Escaping Europe
Every week hundreds of Syrians, given asylum in Germany, are returning home. They risk arrest as they're smuggled from the EU into Turkey, en-route to Syria.
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Crisis in Catalonia
The independence vote in the north-eastern region of Catalonia shook Spain's democracy to the core. BBC correspondent Niall O'Gallagher, who reported on the referendum, has gone back to ask what happens next.
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Pakistan's Child Maids
Tens of thousands of children in Pakistan are legally employed as domestic servants. They cook and clean for their employers - and are vulnerable to exploitation and physical abuse.
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Guatemala: After the Fire
When a fire at a children's home in Guatemala killed dozens of teenage girls, it exposed a terrifying culture of abuse. Linda Pressly investigates how the tragedy, has revealed a child protection crisis of epic proportions.
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Weapons of Mass Deception
The BBC has uncovered an 'arsenal' of media weapons being used in the war of words in the Gulf. Will people in the region ever know the truth in an age of fake news.
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The Fake Murder that Fooled the World
Tsymbaliuk, a former Orthodox priest, is the unlikely starting point for the extraordinary tale of how the Ukrainian security service says it faked a murder in order to stop a murder.
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Norway's Silent Scandal
A highly respected Norwegian child psychiatrist was convicted of downloading thousands of images of child porn. Tim Whewell goes to Norway to discover why child protection in one of the world's wealthiest countries appears to be in crisis.
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A Tale of Two Swedens
Gabriel Gatehouse visited Sweden on the eve of 2018's election, in which an anti-immigrant party, with its roots in the neo-Nazi movement, threatened to upset politics-as-usual.
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Colombia - A Fragile Peace
Two years ago, Colombia's FARC guerrilla group laid down their weapons. Frank Gardner has travelled across the country to assess how the peace is holding.
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Gaza Dreams

Fri, Sep 21, 2018
With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there.
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Philippines: Democracy in Danger?
Outside the Philippines, President Duterte is best known for his violent 'war on drugs', but critics say he is attacking the very institutions designed to keep his power in check.
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Don't Shoot, I'm Disabled
Already in 2018, across the US, at least 136 people with a disability are known to have been killed by police officers, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post and analysis of local media reports.
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Ukraine's Church: Rejecting Russia
In Ukraine, a new independent Orthodox church is set to reject 350 years of spiritual domination by Russia. Four years into a war against Russian-backed rebels many Ukrainians want to sever ties with their closest neighbour.
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Saudi's Crown Prince on Trial
In the wake of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Our World can reveal allegations that close associates of the Prince have been involved in torture and murder in the past.
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Justice for Qandeel?
Qandeel Baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so-called honour killing that rocked Pakistan. Our World investigates.
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China's Hidden Camps
An investigation into the special Chinese 'vocational schools', where as many as a million Muslims are said to be detained.
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Burundi's Torture Houses
In 2015 there was widespread unrest in the African country of Burundi when the country's president ran for a third term. A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of government-sponsored torture and killings designed to silence dissent.
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