Season 2011 2011

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It is ten years since the Gujarat earthquake struck killing thousands and making many more homeless. Aid poured in, and a decade on, the worst-affected area of Kutch is now transformed.

Zeinab Badawi travels to parts of Somalia rarely seen by the outside world, and to neighbouring Djibouti, to witness the suffering of those who have fled the 20 years of violence.

As the schism widens between Shias and Sunnis in the Gulf region, Bill Law heads to Bahrain and Kuwait and discovers that fear itself is already threatening peace in the Gulf.

Are the wheels coming off of Venezuela's socialist revolution? Around 40 per cent of the new parliament is comprised of MP's from opposition parties. James Robbins investigates whether President Chavez can push through his programme in this divided country.

Orla Guerin talks to Saad Iqbal Madni, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for over five years who remains haunted by his time there.

A cyber attack on our energy, water or financial infrastructure could bring much of our everyday lives - even the global economy - grinding to a halt. Susan Watts looks at the world's dependence on digital systems and the threat of cyberwarfare.

Jackie Long profiles Sarah Palin in her home state of Alaska and asks if she could yet become the first woman President of the United States.

Cuba is undergoing major economic change. The government is cutting back on subsidies like the ration cards, and planning to lay off more than a million people. Instead, people can now set up businesses for the first time. Michael Voss reports.

Some Saudi women call their country the 'biggest women's prison in the world'. Others are content with their traditional place in life. Many want change - but will it happen? Sue Lloyd-Roberts goes to Saudi Arabia to find out.

Peter Marshall investigates the air crash which killed the President of Poland and his entire cabinet a year ago. What went wrong, and how has the tragedy changed Poland's relationship with Russia?

If the West's strategy in Afghanistan is to succeed, the victory will have to be more than military. David Loyn travels to the frontline province of Helmand to find out if British aid and development can deliver a hard-won peace.

Bill Law meets five Egyptian women who have been working for political change. How has the fall of Mubarak changed their lives - and what are their hopes for the future?

Richard Wilson travels to the West Antarctic Ice Shelf to see the work of the British scientists who are investigating changes to the shape of the ice - and the possible consequences for our world.

Linda Pressly reports on the controversial deal offered by Ecuador over an oilfield under pristine rainforest. Ecuador is asking for billions to stop the field being developed, but will the deal work?

In the midst of worsening political and economic turmoil, Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, clings to power. Natalia Antelava looks at a country being transformed through popular uprising, and America's response to it.

It's the scourge of international shipping. But for many from the failed state of Somalia, piracy has become a lucrative business. A few dozen warships are now patrolling the Indian Ocean trying to eradicate this ruthless trade. Jonathan Beale reports.

High in the mountains of Georgia, campaigners say there is an ecological disaster.

China pollutes more than any other country on earth, but now the Chinese government says it wants the country to go green. So can China really clean up its act? Justin Rowlatt goes to see the impact of three unbroken decades of economic growth.

Tim Whewell travels through Egypt and into Gaza to explore the impact of the country's revolution on the people there.

Sue Lloyd-Roberts travels undercover through Syria to the capital Damascus to find out what is really going on under Assad's rule.

Humphrey Hawksley reports from the Karamoja region of northern Uganda where the UN is pioneering an ambitious plan to end hunger and the region's long-term dependency on aid.

Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world

James Reynolds profiles Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran's Supreme Leader.

Ten years after the race riots, Oldham's government tries to bring communities together.

In Barcelona, Steve Smith looks at the declining interest in bullfighting.

Bridget Kendall charts the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Bridget Kendall charts the downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union.

By 2050, it is expected that around two billion people will live in slums. Paul Mason visits Manila to find out if we have to learn to live with slums.

The destruction of the twin towers was a site that became the definition of terror. It was an onslaught that killed nearly three thousand people - but a decade later, the attack isn't over.

Laura Trevelyan meets three New Yorkers all affected in different ways by 9/11. Their minute-by-minute recollections of that azure-blue morning convey the chaos and confusion which engulfed Manhattan as the twin towers were hit by hijacked planes.

Granted rare access, this film follows the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as they fight terrorism in the city and work to prevent a second 9/11.

As America grapples with a deepening recession, white-collar workers are now losing their homes in increasing numbers. Paul Mason travels the country down the same road as John Steinbeck's migrants in The Grapes of Wrath. Visiting homeless shelters along the way, he unexpectedly finds a growing number of middle-class people who have ended up on the street.

Central American migrants heading north to the United States fear that they are increasingly in danger of being kidnapped and murdered by drug gangs. Linda Pressly follows part of the migrants' route - from Peten in Guatemala.

Milton Nkosi follows the Warwick in Africa programme - bringing young teachers from the UK to South Africa. Can they really help, and what will teaching in the townships teach them?

Chris Rogers uncovers evidence of violence against children in Uganda, and investigates the practice of trafficking young victims into the UK.

Bishop Okiring School in Kenya boasts world-class athletes among its former pupils and their success has inspired a generation of determined pupils to try for Olympic medals.

As government figures confirm that nearly two thousand children a year die of abuse or neglect in the United States, Natalia Antelava goes to Texas to investigate the roots of this epidemic of child deaths.

In Europe the power of Christian ritual is waning. More than 180 thousand German Catholics left the Church last year - and in the last half century the Protestant Church has lost half its membership. Robert Pigott reports.

Between 1941 and 1945 the Arctic convoys transported millions of tonnes of crucial supplies and munitions from Scotland to Russia. Robert Hall meets the survivors who served on these little-known convoys.

David Shukman explores the extraordinary engineering behind Britain's giant wind turbines, and asks if offshore wind really is the answer to our energy needs.