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DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part two
Fri, Oct 3
Owen Bennett-Jones looks at al Qaeda's hard power and military capabilities in its chosen key battlegrounds: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
DocArchive: Africa's Guantanamo - Assignment
Thu, Oct 2
In Assignment, Robert Walker travels to East Africa to investigate a secret detention programme - involving the transfer of suspected terrorists across three countries: Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Four
Thu, Oct 2
The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Mauritius for part four of this series.
DocArchive: Children of the revolution - Part one
Wed, Oct 1
This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by conservatism and an ailing economy. In the first programme, we hear how the war with Iraq acted as a continuation of the Revolution.
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? Part one
Mon, Sep 29
Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this series in four parts.
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part one
Fri, Sep 26
Seven years into the global war on terror, is al Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this four-part series.
DocArchive: Pakistan's Tribal areas
Thu, Sep 25
Pakistan's government is locked in an intense battle with Islamist militants for control of areas on its northern border with Afghanistan. For Assignment Owen Bennett-Jones visits the Khyber pass - the main supply route for the American and other western forces based in Afghanistan - and discovers that the insurgency has made it vulnerable.
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Three
Thu, Sep 25
The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Seychelles for part three of this series.
DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote - Part Two
Wed, Sep 24
Robin Lustig travels to Phoenix, Arizona, the home of Senator John McCain, to ask two ordinary voters about their most pressing concerns in the forthcoming US presidential election.
DocArchive: Looted Art
Mon, Sep 22
A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and looted art in Charle's Wheeler quest to solve a 50-year mystery.
DocArchive: The Afghan Arms Bazaar Assignment
Thu, Sep 18
As the insurgency in Afghanistan grows, Kate Clark travels undercover to investigate who's arming the Taleban. Meeting commanders and arms dealers, she finds the Taleban are getting their weapons from some suprising sources.
DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote: Part One
Wed, Sep 17
We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office, but what does the electorate itself want? Robin Lustig travels to the candidates' home states to meet four Americans to find out what issues have determined their choices.
DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part Two
Mon, Sep 15
How are the Marwari traders managing as India goes global? Can a business culture based on traditional values survive as India's economy changes?
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part One
Thu, Sep 11
The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Maldives for part one of this series.
DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part One
Mon, Sep 8
Mukhul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become a major global economic and political force.
DocArchive: Feeding Haiti: Assignment
Thu, Sep 4
Haiti, one of the very poorest countries in the world, has been hit hard by soaring food prices. Earlier this year riots led to the sacking of the prime minister. In Assignment, Orin Gordon looks at the ongoing struggle for Haitians to feed themselves.
DocArchive: The 66 Club
Thu, Sep 4
Ruth Evans tells the extraordinary story of 11 women brought together on the internet by one man's sperm.
DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders - Part Two
Mon, Sep 1
John McCain: a profile of the man who talks of honour and patriotic duty and admits having a legendary short fuse.
DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part two
Fri, Aug 29
Win Scutt finds out how the maritime treasure hunting industry has boomed in recent years.
DocArchive: Spain's Civil War - Breaking the Silence
Thu, Aug 28
Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains of their loved ones killed during the country's brutal civil war of the 1930s. For Assignment, Mike Williams travels to Spain to visit an exhumation of bodies and asks if the government's attempt to end the political silence of that period is working.
DocArchive: Al-Qaeda's Internal Debate
Tue, Aug 26
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the terrorist leader's agenda.
DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders
Mon, Aug 25
Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in the US presidential election.
DocArchive: A young life of crime: Assignment
Thu, Aug 21
The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may live in the world. In Britain's main cities, police and politicians say a worrying trend has developed where some young people are now carrying and using both knives and guns at an ever younger age. The BBC's Nina Robinson takes a day out of the life of two youngsters in the English city of Birmingham to find out a little more about what it is that shapes their lives.
DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part One
Thu, Aug 21
International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold without any obstacle. Can a new UNESCO convention bring some order?
DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part Two
Wed, Aug 20
BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of the DR Congo on a journey to find out why so many people have died and continue to die in that country.
DocArchive: Rehearsing for War
Mon, Aug 18
The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-building and peacekeeping.
DocArchive: Secrets in the Family - Assignment
Thu, Aug 14
During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by the security forces. Many of the women detained gave birth in detention centres before being killed and their babies were given to military families to bring up. Now, as Daniel Schweimler reports for Assignment, those babies have come of age in Argentina and some are trying to seek justice for what happened to them.
DocArchive: Your Right to Know - Part 2
Thu, Aug 14
What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve? Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical in their impact?
DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part One
Wed, Aug 13
BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past decade.
DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors
Fri, Aug 8
Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy businessmen. Is this really the way for the US to run its foreign policy?
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