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Our World

Season 2013 2013
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  • 2013-01-19T00:00:00Z on BBC News
  • 30m
  • 23h (46 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
Current affairs documentary reporting on issues around the world

46 episodes

Season Premiere

2013-01-19T00:00:00Z

2013x01 India's Lost Girls

Season Premiere

2013x01 India's Lost Girls

  • 2013-01-19T00:00:00Z30m

Natalia Antelava investigates the growing trade in girls in India.

2013x02 The Iron Ladies Of Burma

  • 2013-01-26T00:00:00Z30m

Two farmers' daughters in Burma are spearheading protests against a Chinese-backed mine.

As Hillary Clinton leaves office Kim Ghattas reports on her particular brand of diplomacy.

Karen Allen reports on the legacy of past electoral unrest in Kenya.

Featuring news on issues around the world. Corsica has the highest murder rate per capita in Europe - many of the killings are blamed on organised criminal gangs. Tom Esslemont investigates.

2013-03-02T00:00:00Z

2013x06 Guatemala's Sweet Deal

2013x06 Guatemala's Sweet Deal

  • 2013-03-02T00:00:00Z30m

Examining the reasons behind Guatemala's new trade privileges in detail.

2013-03-09T00:00:00Z

2013x07 The Battle for Mali

2013x07 The Battle for Mali

  • 2013-03-09T00:00:00Z30m

Andrew Harding examines the roots of the conflict and assesses the prospects for peace.

2013x08 Nigeria's Hidden Conflict

  • 2013-03-16T00:00:00Z30m

Mark Lobel uncovers how the violence in north-eastern Nigeria is terrorising lives.

2013-03-23T00:00:00Z

2013x09 Born Under a Bad Sign

2013x09 Born Under a Bad Sign

  • 2013-03-23T00:00:00Z30m

Yalda Hakim investigates the rise in numbers of babies born with birth defects in Iraq.

2013-03-30T00:00:00Z

2013x10 Mongolian Boom-time

2013x10 Mongolian Boom-time

  • 2013-03-30T00:00:00Z30m

Mongolia is expected to top the world's growth tables once again.

2013-04-05T23:00:00Z

2013x11 Who Am I?

2013x11 Who Am I?

  • 2013-04-05T23:00:00Z30m

Report on babies taken from their mothers during Argentina's military dictatorship.

2013-04-12T23:00:00Z

2013x12 Paragliding Over Mosul

2013x12 Paragliding Over Mosul

  • 2013-04-12T23:00:00Z30m

Yalda Hakim wants to get into Mosul, said to be the most dangerous city in the world.

Yalda Hakim reports from Baghdad on how life has changed for women in Iraq.

2013-04-26T23:00:00Z

2013x14 Electrifying Africa

2013x14 Electrifying Africa

  • 2013-04-26T23:00:00Z30m

How East Africa's green energy revolution is chasing the darkness from rural homes.

2013x15 Sri Lanka's Open Wounds

  • 2013-05-03T23:00:00Z30m

Victims of Sri Lanka's civil war address the lasting legacy of 30 years of violence.

2013-05-10T23:00:00Z

2013x16 Ukraine's AIDS Racket

2013x16 Ukraine's AIDS Racket

  • 2013-05-10T23:00:00Z30m

Leaders of Ukraine's Orange Revolution promise to tackle the country's Aids epidemic.

2013-05-17T23:00:00Z

2013x17 Romario Tackles Brazil

2013x17 Romario Tackles Brazil

  • 2013-05-17T23:00:00Z30m

With exclusive access to the footballing politician, Tim Franks investigates why one of Brazil's World Cup heroes is shooting down the BRIC giant's moment of glory.

2013x18 Rescuing Russia's Orphans

  • 2013-05-24T23:00:00Z30m

Tim Whewell report on the struggle to free Russian orphans from the state system.

2013x19 The Violent Heart of LA

  • 2013-05-31T23:00:00Z30m

The BBC's Frank Gardner witnesses first-hand how lives are torn apart by gun crime.

2013-06-07T23:00:00Z

2013x20 Fleeing Syria

2013x20 Fleeing Syria

  • 2013-06-07T23:00:00Z30m

Bombed and fired at by government troops, over a million Syrians seek refuge abroad

After one of the world's worst industrial disasters, Yalda Hakim visits Bangladesh.

2013-06-21T23:00:00Z

2013x22 Meet the Hackers

2013x22 Meet the Hackers

  • 2013-06-21T23:00:00Z30m

Featuring news on issues around the world. Susan Watts meets the Scottish teenager who acted as the PR man for a group of hackers called LulzSec and learns how he was drawn into a life lived almost entirely online.

2013-06-28T23:00:00Z

2013x23 Treasures of the Deep

2013x23 Treasures of the Deep

  • 2013-06-28T23:00:00Z30m

David Shukman investigates signs of a global race to mine the ocean floor.

2013-07-05T23:00:00Z

2013x24 Lebanon on the Brink

2013x24 Lebanon on the Brink

  • 2013-07-05T23:00:00Z30m

Nahed Abouzeid investigates a Lebanon teetering on the brink of an intra-religious war.

2013x25 In Sickness and in Debt

  • 2013-07-12T23:00:00Z30m

What impact are austerity measures in Greece having on the nation's health?

Yalda Hakim follows Ethiopian migrants on a journey to find work in Saudi Arabia.

2013x27 Australia's Adoption Shame

  • 2013-07-26T23:00:00Z30m

Duncan Kennedy looks back on the story of Australia's practice of forced adoptions.

2013-08-02T23:00:00Z

2013x28 Peres at 90

2013x28 Peres at 90

  • 2013-08-02T23:00:00Z30m

Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet meets Israeli president Shimon Peres.

Yalda Hakim reports from America's new front line, Yemen.

2013-08-16T23:00:00Z

2013x30 Clinton in Africa

2013x30 Clinton in Africa

  • 2013-08-16T23:00:00Z30m

The BBC's Komla Dumor travels to East Africa with the former US president Bill Clinton.

2013x31 Bahrain: Policing Protest

  • 2013-08-23T23:00:00Z30m

As unrest continues, Bill Law investigates allegations of police brutality in Bahrain.

2013x32 Myanmar's Extremist Monk

  • 2013-08-30T23:00:00Z30m

Jonah Fisher visits Burma to meet a Buddhist monk and members of Burma's Muslim community.

2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

2013x33 Germany Under Pressure

2013x33 Germany Under Pressure

  • 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z30m

How politicians in Germany are confronting unwelcome truths about Europe's richest country

2013-09-13T23:00:00Z

2013x34 Coffee's Cruel Secret

2013x34 Coffee's Cruel Secret

  • 2013-09-13T23:00:00Z30m

Chris Rogers goes undercover in Indonesia to investigate coffee production.

Linda Pressly visits Indonesia, where deadly mercury is being used to mine gold.

2013-09-27T23:00:00Z

2013x36 China's Love Hunters

2013x36 China's Love Hunters

  • 2013-09-27T23:00:00Z30m

By the end of this decade 24 million Chinese men won't be able to find wives.

2013-10-04T23:00:00Z

2013x37 Tel Aviv Comes Out

2013x37 Tel Aviv Comes Out

  • 2013-10-04T23:00:00Z30m

Tim Samuels explores how Tel Aviv has deliberately set out to become a gay mecca.

2013-10-11T23:00:00Z

2013x38 Russia's Frozen Assets

2013x38 Russia's Frozen Assets

  • 2013-10-11T23:00:00Z30m

Daniel Sandford investigates the dash to exploit Russia's untapped wealth.

2013x39 Dropping the Knife: Gambia

  • 2013-10-18T23:00:00Z30m

Gambian activists try to put an end to the tradition of female genital mutilation.

Shaimaa Khalil reports on the remarkable grass-roots campaign that led to the centuries' old practice of female genital mutilation being outlawed in Kurdistan.

2013-11-02T00:00:00Z

2013x41 Iran's Secret Army

2013x41 Iran's Secret Army

  • 2013-11-02T00:00:00Z30m

Yalda Hakim investigates the clandestine role of Iran in Syria's civil war, providing a dramatic insight into Tehran's support for the Assad regime on the ground.

2013x42 Sri Lanka's Unfinished War

  • 2013-11-09T00:00:00Z30m

As commonwealth leaders prepare to meet in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, Our World investigates on-going allegations of rape and torture by the Sri Lankan security forces.

2013x43 Colombia's Child Soldiers

  • 2013-11-16T00:00:00Z30m

Thousands of children have been forced to fight in Colombia's 50-year conflict. With peace talks underway, Tom Esslemont meets children as they find their way back to society.

2013x44 Exorcising Mexico's Demons

  • 2013-11-30T00:00:00Z30m

The Roman Catholic church in Mexico is training a record number of priests as exorcists.

2013-12-07T00:00:00Z

2013x45 Peru's Cocaine Trail

2013x45 Peru's Cocaine Trail

  • 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z30m

Sue Lloyd-Roberts follows the trail of cocaine from the coca plant in the Amazon jungle to the young mules who try to smuggle it out of the country to consumers in Europe.

2013-12-29T00:00:00Z

2013x46 Turkey's Hidden Truths

2013x46 Turkey's Hidden Truths

  • 2013-12-29T00:00:00Z30m

Following her reporting on protests in Istanbul last summer, the BBC's Selin Girit was the target of a hate campaign on Twitter begun by a senior Turkish politician. For Our World, Selin returns to Turkey to investigate why journalists so often find themselves under attack from the authorities.

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