Unreported World Season 9

February. 08,2008      
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 19 : Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
December. 19,2008
This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.
Episode 18 : Yemen: Sea of Tears
December. 12,2008
Episode 17 : Thailand: Lessons in Terror
December. 05,2008
Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
Episode 16 : Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
November. 21,2008
Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
Episode 15 : Philippines' Dirty War
November. 14,2008
Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
Episode 14 : Paraguay's Painful Harvest
November. 07,2008
Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
Episode 13 : Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
October. 31,2008
Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
Episode 12 : India: God's Own Country
October. 24,2008
Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
Episode 11 : South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
October. 17,2008
Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
Episode 10 : Kenya's Human Time Bomb
April. 18,2008
Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
Episode 9 : Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
April. 11,2008
Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
Episode 8 : Benin: Voodoo Children
April. 04,2008
Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
Episode 7 : Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
March. 28,2008
Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
Episode 6 : Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
March. 14,2008
Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
Episode 5 : Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
March. 07,2008
Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
Episode 4 : Russia: Railway of Bones
February. 29,2008
Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
Episode 3 : Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
February. 22,2008
Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
Episode 2 : USA: The Devil's Highway
February. 15,2008
Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
Episode 1 : Egypt's Rubbish People
February. 08,2008
Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.

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