Unreported World Season 7, Episode 16: Lebanon on the Brink

1

Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows

Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government.

2

Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps

Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor.

3

Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara

Khaled Khazziha, in a refugee camp, meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco.

4

Philippines: City of Guilt

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the impact of the government's pro-life policy on women as illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured.

5

Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge

Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006.

6

Turkey: Europe's Hidden War

Matthew McAllester travels to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group.

7

Malaysia: Asia's Slaves

Ramita Navai examines the plight of those Indonesian workers who, with their passports retained by their employers, are abused and treated as slaves.

8

Chad and Sudan (Dafur)

Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians.

9

Democratic Republic of Congo

Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia.

10

Brazil: Slum Warfare

Khaled Khazziha films in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, with the permission of the local drug-lords who run it as a state within a state.

11

South Africa: The New Apartheid

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence.

12

West Papua: Rainforest Warriors

Reporter Evan Williams and Director Siobhan Sinnerton spend three weeks undercover in West Papua, an outlying province of Indonesia in the Western Pacific, which is home to the world’s biggest copper and gold mine.

13

India's Hidden War

Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war.

14

Guatemala: City of the Dead

Ramita Navai exposes how areas of the country’s capital have degenerated into violent lawlessness in a three way battle between gangs, vigilante groups and the security forces.

15

Nigeria: Fire in the Delta

Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.

16

Lebanon on the Brink

Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment.

17

Mexico: The Longest Journey

Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA.

18

Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban

Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan.

19

Japan: Red Sun Rising

Evan Williams on how an increasingly influential far-right nationalist movement is trying to persuade the Japanese government to rewrite the country's constitution and become a nuclear power.

20

Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War

Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11.