Unreported World Season 8

April. 13,2007      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis

Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media. The first episode of series 24 was broadcast on 2 November, 2012.

Episode 20 : Congo: Children of the Genocide
January. 01,0001
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.
Episode 19 : Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
January. 01,0001
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.
Episode 18 : Colombia: Cocaine City
November. 02,2007
Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.
Episode 17 : Iraq: The Battle for Oil
October. 26,2007
Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.
Episode 16 : China's Olympic Lie
October. 19,2007
Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
Episode 15 : Honduras: The War on Children
October. 12,2007
Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
Episode 14 : Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country
October. 05,2007
Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
Episode 13 : South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
September. 21,2007
Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.
Episode 12 : India's Broken People
September. 21,2007
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.
Episode 11 : Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money
September. 14,2007
Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.
Episode 10 : Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)
June. 15,2006
Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.
Episode 9 : Israel's Wild West
June. 08,2007
Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.
Episode 8 : East Timor: Birth of a Nation
June. 01,2007
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.
Episode 7 : Kosovo: State of Denial
May. 25,2007
Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.
Episode 6 : Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror
May. 18,2007
Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.
Episode 5 : Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)
May. 11,2007
Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.
Episode 4 : Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes
May. 05,2007
Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.
Episode 3 : Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
April. 27,2007
Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.
Episode 2 : Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover
April. 20,2007
Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.
Episode 1 : Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
April. 13,2007
Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.

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