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Our World

Calais: The Final Frontier
The northern French port of Calais is facing an international refugee crisis. Darius Bazargan has been to Calais to meet the migrants, and the locals, caught up in a growing humanitarian crisis.
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The Billion Dollar Gamble
It's the first planned Palestinian city - a billion dollar project to build homes for 25,000 people. Though the main building work is largely finished, the project, like the peace process, has ground to a halt. Lyse Doucet reports.
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Bringing Business Back
Natalia Antelava travels across the U.S, and to India, to investigate whether the tide is turning on one of the biggest trends in globalization - the outsourcing of work from the rich to the developing world.
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Uganda: My Mad World
In Uganda few people are willing to talk about mental illness. Those who suffer are frequently isolated, shunned by their community and rejected by their families. Our World meets a man who has broken the silence.
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The Power of Le Pen
The Front National now led by charismatic leader, Marine le Pen was once regarded as a marginal, extremist political party, but economic turmoil in Europe has thrust it into the mainstream of French Politics.
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Inside Eritrea

Fri, Mar 13, 2015
Eritrea has been described as one of the most secretive states in the world. For the first time in around 10 years, BBC News has been been allowed to to film inside the country.
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St Helena: An End to Isolation
St Helena prepares for its new airport to receive its first flights. Our World meets St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolation.
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Saving Gaza's Grand Piano
The only concert grand piano in war-ravaged Gaza has been rediscovered and brought back to life after years of neglect. It survived last year's war with Israel, but was unplayable until a restorer arrived on a special mission from France.
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Rhino Wars

Fri, Apr 03, 2015
Last year a record number of rhinos were illegally slaughtered in South Africa's Kruger Park. Our World sets out to discover whether hunting the poachers can can save the rhino.
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Ukraine's Fragile Ceasefire
Natalia Antelava reports from both sides of the ceasefire line on whether the fighting has stopped, and what hope there is for a lasting peace.
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The Uighurs: Silk Road Survivors
For the eleven million Uighur people who live in China freedom of speech, religion and movement is strictly controlled. But just along the Silk Road, across the border in Kazakhstan, a quarter of a million Uighurs enjoy relative freedom.
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Kidnapped for a Decade
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the girls who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio, speak out about their harrowing ordeal.
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Arctic Mission with David Shukman
A team of Norwegian scientists spent the winter on a research ship in the Arctic examining the sea ice. They say it's becoming thinner. David Shukman looks at the difficulties of doing scientific research in the Arctic.
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Who Killed Alberto Nisman?
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot dead on 18 January, a pistol by his side. As investigators probe his death, we take a look at the key figures.
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The Lusitania's 100-Year Secret
Duncan Kennedy finds out why mystery still surrounds the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and pieces together what happened on that fateful last journey in which more than thirteen hundred people were drowned.
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Mosul: Living with Islamic State
Iraq's second city is closed to the outside world and tightly controlled by its new rulers. With exclusive, secretly-filmed footage of life in Mosul, Yalda Hakim tells the story of a city run by Islamic State.
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Pardon Me, Mr President
The War on Drugs in the United States led to a huge increase in America's prison population. Our World looks at the changing approach to tackling drug offences in the United States.
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Bosnia: Cradle of Modern Jihad?
Back in the 1990's something happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina that inspired people to this day. Mark Urban returns to Bosnia and discovers how secular Bosnian society has been infiltrated by a militant Islamism which operates to this day.
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Made in China: Club Drugs
A new drug of choice, ketamine, is flooding China's night clubs, and the Chinese authorities are losing the battle to stop its spread. Celia Hatton travels to a village thought to be at the heart of China's ketamine production.
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Deported to Afghanistan
Over the past ten years, thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the UK from war-torn Afghanistan, but when they turn 18 they have to return or face deportation.
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Living with Malaria
Malaria kills a child every minute and disables millions of adults. While there has been success in tackling the disease, malarial mosquitoes are posing a new threat. Judy Aslett reports from Burkina Faso.
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A Very Political Assassination
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, was poisoned with radioactive Polonium in a London hotel in November 2006. Richard Watson investigates the polonium trail and reveals how it leads to President Putin's door.
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The Killing of Farkhunda
Zarghuna Kargar tells the story of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, and religious scholar who was brutally murdered by a mob in the streets of Kabul in March. At the time it was wrongly alleged that she had burnt the Qu'ran.
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Yemen: The Hidden War
An escalating ground and air war in Yemen - against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels - has brought the country to the point of collapse. Millions of people are in danger. Amid this chaos, Al Qaeda and Islamic State are building their presence.
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The Bangladesh Blogger Murders
Mukul Devichand reports on the mood amongst bloggers in Bangladesh following the murders this year of four atheist internet bloggers, apparently for challenging religious belief.
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South Korea's Adoption Shame
South Korea is a country with no tradition of adoption. Yalda Hakim has been to Seoul to investigate why South Koreans are so reluctant to bring up someone else's child.
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A Bumpy Road to Rio?
Rio de Janeiro is gearing up for its big year. The famous Brazilian city will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. But what is everyday life like in Rio for disabled people, and how will these Paralympic preparations affect them?
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After the Jungle
During Sierra Leone's ten year civil war seven thousand children were forced to join the fighting, Our World meets a former child soldier as he tries to rebuild his life, his relationships, and make sense of his past.
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Russia's Modern Mystics
Growing numbers of Russians are consulting mystics and psychics. For Our World the BBC Russian Service's Olga Smirnova investigates the phenomenon.
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South Sudan: Shattered Dream
Just four years after South Sudan was granted independence, becoming the world's newest country, it has descended into chaos and conflict. The fighting, mostly along ethnic lines, has created one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
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Pregnant and Punished in the UAE
In the UAE, sex outside marriage can land you in prison. Three women tell of how they fell foul of the law, revealing that it's often pregnant women and mothers who are most vulnerable.
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The Lost Daughter of Halabja
A woman orphaned during the chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988 makes an emotional return to the city to try to find the family she lost.
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Greece: No Place to Die
Greek cemeteries have run out of space so the dead are exhumed after just three years. In the only EU country without a crematorium the cash strapped population has few options.
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Surviving Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone lasted 18 months and, despite the country being declared free of the disease in November, thousands of survivors now face a bleak future.
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