Foreign Correspondent
ABC Running
19 Seasons · 531 Episodes · Premiered February 5, 2008
Australia's leading international affairs program featuring fascinating, in-depth stories from the ABC's unrivalled network of foreign correspondents.
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Next Air Time: Tue, May 5 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
Seasons & Episodes
Season 2008
43 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Tue, Feb 5 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Episode 2
Tue, Feb 12 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Episode 3
Tue, Feb 19 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Episode 4
Tue, Feb 26 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Episode 5
Tue, Mar 4 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
Episode 6
Tue, Mar 11 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Episode 7
Tue, Mar 18 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Episode 8
Tue, Mar 25 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Episode 9
Tue, Apr 1 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Episode 10
Tue, Apr 8 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Episode 11
Tue, Apr 15 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Episode 12
Tue, Apr 22 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
Episode 13
Tue, Apr 29 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
Episode 14
Tue, May 6 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Episode 15
Tue, May 13 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
Episode 16
Tue, May 20 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Episode 17
Tue, May 27 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Episode 18
Tue, Jun 3 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
Episode 19
Tue, Jun 10 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Episode 20
Tue, Jun 17 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
Episode 21
Tue, Jun 24 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Episode 22
Tue, Jul 1 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Episode 23
Tue, Jul 8 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Episode 24
Tue, Jul 15 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
Episode 25
Tue, Jul 22 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Episode 26
Tue, Jul 29 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
Episode 27
Tue, Aug 5 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
Episode 28
Tue, Aug 12 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
Episode 29
Tue, Aug 19 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
Episode 30
Tue, Aug 26 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E31
Episode 31
Tue, Sep 2 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E32
Episode 32
Tue, Sep 9 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E33
Episode 33
Tue, Sep 16 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E34
Episode 34
Tue, Sep 23 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E35
Episode 35
Tue, Sep 30 2008 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E36
Episode 36
Tue, Oct 7 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E37
Episode 37
Tue, Oct 14 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E38
Episode 38
Tue, Oct 21 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E39
Episode 39
Tue, Oct 28 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E40
Episode 40
Tue, Nov 4 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E41
Episode 41
Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E42
Episode 42
Tue, Nov 18 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E43
Episode 43
Tue, Nov 25 2008 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2009
42 episodes
E01
Ramadan In Space
Tue, Feb 17 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
The World According to Frost
Tue, Feb 17 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Stolen and Sold
Tue, Feb 24 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
What Lies Beneath?
Tue, Mar 3 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Young Lions of Lahore
Wed, Mar 11 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
American Emergency
Wed, Mar 11 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Is Aid Killing Africa?
Tue, Mar 17 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Left To Die
Tue, Mar 17 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
The Big Smoke
Tue, Mar 24 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
The Farmer Wants a Country
Tue, Mar 31 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Children of Zanskar
Tue, Apr 7 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Jacob Zuma
Tue, Apr 7 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
Trapped in Terror
Wed, Apr 15 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
The Young Guns
Tue, Apr 21 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Pirateland
Tue, Apr 28 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
Cats in the Clouds
Wed, May 6 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
The Third Amigo
Tue, May 19 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Detroit: Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Tue, May 26 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
One Night in Sofia
Tue, Jun 2 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Sumo Confidential
Tue, Jun 9 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
The Bulldozer
Tue, Jun 16 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
A Greek Tragedy
Tue, Jun 23 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Bravo! Encore!
Tue, Jun 30 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
The Rebellion Network
Tue, Jul 7 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
Orphans of the Storm
Tue, Jul 14 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Us and Them
Tue, Jul 21 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
The Uighur Dilemma
Tue, Jul 28 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
Rocket Island
Tue, Aug 4 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
Total Control
Tue, Aug 11 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
Return to the Fatal Sky
Tue, Aug 18 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E31
A Brave Face
Tue, Aug 25 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E32
80 Million a Day
Tue, Sep 1 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E33
The Congo Connection
Tue, Sep 8 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E34
Fly Away Children
Tue, Sep 15 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E35
Hook, Line and Sunk!
Tue, Sep 22 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E36
Berlusconi and the Beautiful
Tue, Sep 29 2009 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E37
Europe or Die Trying
Tue, Oct 6 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E38
California Burning
Tue, Oct 13 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E39
Without Honour and Humanity
Tue, Oct 20 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E40
Flight AF 447
Tue, Oct 27 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E41
Winds of Change
Tue, Nov 3 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E42
Thanks for Watching
Tue, Nov 10 2009 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2010
37 episodes
E01
Hell or High Water
Tue, Feb 9 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
The Golden Hour
Tue, Feb 16 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
The Rapunzel Machine
Tue, Feb 23 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Fly Away Home
Tue, Mar 2 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Quicksand
Tue, Mar 9 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
The Hit Parade
Tue, Mar 16 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
The Whole Enchilada
Tue, Mar 23 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Stem Cells & Miracles
Tue, Mar 30 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Pet Monsters
Tue, Apr 6 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Coming Acropolis
Tue, Apr 20 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
French Dressing
Tue, Apr 27 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Aceh Afterwards
Tue, May 4 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
The Biggest Domino
Tue, May 18 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
World, Interrupted
Tue, May 25 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Gut Instinct
Tue, Jun 1 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
The Catch
Tue, Jun 8 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
High Finance
Tue, Jun 15 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Truth or Dare
Tue, Jun 22 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
In Deep Water
Tue, Jun 29 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Standing on the Sky
Tue, Jul 6 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
Bend It Like Jong
Tue, Jul 13 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
In the Chocolate City
Tue, Jul 20 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
The Electric Range
Tue, Jul 27 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Frank, Uncensored
Tue, Aug 3 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
Children of the Dust
Tue, Aug 10 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Terror-Go-Round
Tue, Aug 24 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
The Curse of Katyn
Tue, Aug 31 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
Collision Course
Tue, Sep 7 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
The Swingers
Tue, Sep 14 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
Heroes, Frauds & Imposters
Tue, Sep 21 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E31
Captain Dragan
Tue, Sep 28 2010 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E32
The Amazon of Asia
Tue, Oct 5 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E33
What Happened Next
Tue, Oct 12 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E34
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Tue, Oct 19 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E35
Dirty Secrets
Tue, Oct 26 2010 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E36
'Allo, 'Allo, 'Allo
Tue, Nov 2 2010 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E37
Once Upon a Year
Tue, Nov 9 2010 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2011
40 episodes
E01
The Pied Piper of Jihad
Tue, Feb 8 2011 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Salma in the Square
Tue, Feb 15 2011 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Goodbye, My Ireland
Tue, Feb 22 2011 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Gunsmoke
Tue, Mar 1 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Killing the Messenger
Tue, Mar 8 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
Monster Makeover
Tue, Mar 22 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Beyond Borat
Tue, Mar 29 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
Tue, Apr 5 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
The Blue and the Black
Tue, Apr 12 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Kingdom, Undercover
Tue, Apr 19 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Eat, Pray, Give
Tue, Apr 26 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Inside/Out
Tue, May 3 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
True Believers
Tue, May 17 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
By the Beach
Tue, May 24 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
The Boy on the Bike
Tue, May 31 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
Gangster's Paradise
Tue, Jun 7 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Catwalk Empire
Tue, Jun 14 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
There's an Awful Lot of Money in Brazil
Tue, Jun 21 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
The Pain in Spain
Tue, Jun 28 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
The Shadows of Everest
Tue, Jul 5 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
What a Shocker!
Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
The Lady on the Lake
Tue, Jul 19 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
The Anguish, the Anger
Tue, Jul 26 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Paper/Tiger
Tue, Aug 2 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
The Secret Garden
Tue, Aug 9 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
A Place in the Sand
Tue, Aug 16 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
Diamond Dogs
Tue, Aug 23 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
The Storming of High Street
Tue, Aug 30 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
The Stop and Go Back Man
Tue, Sep 6 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
The Fukushima Syndrome
Tue, Sep 13 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E31
Follow the Money
Tue, Sep 20 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E32
Beyond the Lost Horizon
Tue, Sep 27 2011 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E33
Wiki Whacked
Tue, Oct 4 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E34
Inside the Hidden Revolution
Tue, Oct 11 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E35
The Mormon Moment
Tue, Oct 18 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E36
The Homecoming
Tue, Oct 25 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E37
Revolution Hijacked
Tue, Nov 1 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E38
Toxic Trade
Tue, Nov 8 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E39
Going Rogue
Tue, Nov 15 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E40
Around the World and Back Again
Tue, Nov 22 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2012
26 episodes
E01
The Ka-Ching Dynasty
Tue, Feb 7 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Bavarian Fairy Tale
Tue, Feb 14 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Girlpower!
Tue, Feb 21 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Meet the Frackers
Tue, Feb 28 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
The Almighty's Dollar
Tue, Mar 6 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
Building the Perfect Bug
Tue, Mar 13 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
The Road to Mandalay
Tue, Mar 20 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
They Paved Paradise
Tue, May 15 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Sayonara Baby
Tue, May 22 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
The Real Great Escape
Tue, May 29 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Miss Tibet
Tue, Jun 5 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
England Swings
Tue, Jun 19 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
That was Then This is Now
Tue, Jun 19 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
Globesity - Fat's New Frontier
Tue, Jul 24 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Wired
Tue, Jul 31 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
The Wandering Souls
Tue, Aug 7 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Two Hearts
Tue, Aug 14 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Revenge of the Nerds
Tue, Aug 21 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
Lords of the Ring
Tue, Aug 28 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Rise of the Machines
Tue, Sep 4 2012 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
Tick, Tick, Boom!
Tue, Oct 23 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Adrenalin Nation
Tue, Oct 30 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Goin' Up Around the Bend - Truth, Votes and the American Way
Tue, Nov 6 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
The Odyssey
Tue, Nov 13 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
The Big Dig
Tue, Nov 20 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
We Will Not Be Moved
Tue, Nov 27 2012 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2013
30 episodes
E01
Tanzania/Kenya: Where Have All The Elephants Gone?
Tue, Feb 5 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Israel: Prisoner X: The Australian Connection
Tue, Feb 12 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Italy: Made in Italy
Tue, Feb 19 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
USA: Inside the NRA
Tue, Feb 26 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
India: On Trial
Tue, Mar 5 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
Mexico: The Veins of the Earth
Tue, Mar 12 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Syria: Ibrahim's War
Tue, Mar 19 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Ireland: Race to the Bottom
Tue, Mar 26 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Iraq: Searching for Steele
Tue, Apr 2 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Taiwan: Standing on Shaky Ground
Tue, Apr 9 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Mali: The Road to Timbuktu (1)
Tue, Apr 16 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Mali: The Road to Timbuktu (2)
Tue, Apr 23 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
Cyprus: The Haircut
Tue, Apr 30 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
Israel: Prisoner X: The Secret
Tue, May 7 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
China: The Other China Boom (1)
Tue, Aug 13 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
China: The Other China Boom (2): The Drug Squad
Tue, Aug 20 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Brazil: Showtime!
Tue, Aug 27 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
India: 23 Little Lives
Tue, Sep 3 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
Corsica: Murder Island
Tue, Sep 10 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Pakistan: The Enemy Within
Tue, Sep 17 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
Easter Island: Ageing Rock Stars
Tue, Sep 24 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Afghanistan/Canada: Coming Home (1): Combat Doctor
Tue, Oct 1 2013 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Afghanistan/Canada: Coming Home (2)
Tue, Oct 8 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Pakistan: Malala
Tue, Oct 15 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
USA: Down in Jungleland
Tue, Oct 22 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Russia: The Iron Closet
Tue, Oct 29 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
Japan: The Next Wave
Tue, Nov 5 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
United Kingdom: Honour and Obey
Tue, Nov 12 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
Indonesia: Cry of the Tiger
Tue, Nov 19 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
The Philippines: The Super Storm
Tue, Nov 26 2013 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2014
30 episodes
E01
Ukraine: Moscow Rules
Tue, Mar 18 2014 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Chile: Facing the Past
Tue, Mar 25 2014 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Dubai: Trapped (1)
Tue, Apr 1 2014 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Dubai: Trapped (2)
Tue, Apr 8 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
India: The Baby Makers
Tue, Apr 15 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
South Africa: Granpower!
Tue, Apr 22 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Cuba: Inside Gitmo
Tue, Apr 29 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Afghanistan: Groomed to Kill
Tue, May 6 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Spratly Islands (South China Sea): Reef Madness
Tue, May 20 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Pakistan: The Polio Emergency
Tue, May 27 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Tiananmen: Australia's Witnesses
Tue, Jun 3 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Jordan: Home Away From Home
Tue, Jun 10 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
USA: Cannabis Inc.
Tue, Jun 17 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
Cairo: Ordeal in Egypt
Tue, Jun 24 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Myanmar: A New Dawn
Tue, Jul 1 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
Mexico: The Last Resort
Tue, Jul 8 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Laos: The Legacy
Tue, Jul 15 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Syria: A Gangster Goes To War
Tue, Jul 22 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
Scotland: You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road
Tue, Jul 29 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
Norway: The Gender Mission
Tue, Aug 5 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
East Timor: The Clinic
Tue, Aug 12 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Japan: Return of the Samurai
Tue, Aug 19 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Sierra Leone: Into the Hot Zone
Tue, Aug 26 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Palau: Take a Long Line
Tue, Sep 2 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
Nepal: The Road
Tue, Sep 9 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Northern Ireland: The Disappeared
Tue, Sep 16 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
South Africa: Symphony in Soweto
Tue, Sep 23 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
China: Crackdown
Tue, Sep 30 2014 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E29
Kenya: Inside Out
Tue, Oct 7 2014 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
Italy: The Italian Solution
Tue, Oct 14 2014 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2015
26 episodes
E01
Middle East/Australia - Pitch Battle
Tue, Apr 14 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
Vietnam - Are You My Mother?
Tue, Apr 21 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
U.K. - The Boris Mission
Tue, Apr 28 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Antarctica - Southern Exposure
Tue, May 5 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Syria - Brides of ISIS
Tue, May 19 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
India - Let There Be Light
Tue, May 26 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Qatar - Slaves to the Beautiful Game
Tue, Jun 2 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Syria - The Cost of Living
Tue, Jun 9 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
South Korea - Education Gangnam Style
Tue, Jun 16 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
India - About A Boy
Tue, Jun 23 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
The Philippines - Saving Mary Jane
Tue, Jul 7 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Greece - Odyssey
Tue, Jul 14 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E13
Ireland - The Emerald Aisle
Tue, Jul 21 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E14
Egypt/Australia - Peter Greste: My Fight for Freedom (1)
Tue, Jul 28 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E15
Egypt/Australia - Peter Greste: The Homecoming (2)
Tue, Aug 4 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E16
China - Tales of a City
Tue, Aug 11 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E17
Cuba - Neighbours
Tue, Aug 18 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
Spain - Yes We Can
Tue, Aug 25 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E19
USA - The Trump Show
Tue, Sep 1 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
India - Tashi and the Monk
Tue, Sep 8 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
PNG - Doctor Dim Dim
Tue, Sep 15 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Ukraine - Republic of Nowhere
Tue, Sep 22 2015 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Global - How to Save the World
Mon, Nov 30 2015 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
USA - Black Lives Matter
Mon, Dec 7 2015 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
China - Our Man in China
Mon, Dec 14 2015 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
Global - Digital Disruption
Mon, Dec 21 2015 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2016
31 episodes
E01
Sweden - Rosie's Journey
Tue, Mar 15 2016 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E02
USA - The Zombies from Wall Street
Tue, Mar 22 2016 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Germany - One Night in Cologne
Tue, Mar 29 2016 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E04
Myanmar - Poppyland
Tue, Apr 5 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E05
Sicily - Mafia Hunter
Tue, Apr 12 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E06
Afghanistan - On Thin Ice
Tue, Apr 19 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Middle East - Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Tue, Apr 26 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E08
Indonesia - False Economy
Tue, May 3 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
Iran - Persian Jam
Tue, May 10 2016 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E10
Come In Spinner
Tue, May 17 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E11
Japan - Into the Zone
Tue, May 24 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Mark Willacy travels to radiation-poisoned Fukushima to uncover startling new evidence about the dangers that still lurk there and the near insurmountable task of cleaning it up.
E12
Afghanistan - Surgical Strike
Tue, May 31 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
35 min
The anatomy of a military scandal. Why did US forces attack a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Afghanistan, killing 42 people? An Aussie doctor is among the survivors who tell their chilling stories.
E13
UK - There'll Always Be An England
Tue, Jun 7 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Quit Europe or stay? It's the English who hold the whip in hand in the coming UK vote - and many want out. So what's up with the Poms? Lisa Millar explores the essence of "Englishness".
E14
Indonesia - Accused
Tue, Jun 14 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A puff of rumour grew into a tempest of accusations and led to the jailing of seven people for alleged child abuse at an elite international school in Jakarta. Was justice served or was it a case of moral panic?
E15
Indonesia - A Fleeting Freedom
Tue, Jun 21 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
As supporters battle to free seven people jailed in a child abuse scandal at an elite Indonesian school, Foreign Correspondent digs into the evidence - and turns up some surprises.
E16
USA - Honouring Noah
Tue, Jun 28 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's the question posed after Orlando and every other massacre: Will America ever regulate guns? Lisa Millar revisits a mother who lost her little boy to a mass shooter and who - remarkably - sees positive signs of change.
E17
UK - The Reckoning
Tue, Jul 5 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E18
South Africa - Freedom Riders
Tue, Jul 12 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
How do you free troubled kids from the violence and poverty of South Africa's broken townships? For starters, you teach them surfing. Sally Sara reports on the idea that's inspiring youngsters to unleash their best.
E19
PNG - A Bloody Boycott
Tue, Jul 19 2016 11:20 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
China - The Labours of Mr Zhang
Tue, Jul 26 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
South Sudan - Get Up, Stand Up
Tue, Aug 2 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
USA - Never Trump
Tue, Aug 9 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E23
Germany - For Greater Glory
Tue, Aug 16 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E24
Yemen - The War on Children
Tue, Aug 23 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E25
UK - Last Whites of the East End
Tue, Aug 30 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E26
China - Generation Left Behind
Tue, Sep 6 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E27
PNG - Family Matters
Tue, Sep 13 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E28
Scotland - Wild Things
Tue, Sep 20 2016 11:35 AM GMT+0000
25 min
E29
Norway - Keep Calm and Drill On
Tue, Sep 27 2016 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E30
Turkey - The Bridge
Tue, Oct 4 2016 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E31
USA - President Trump
Sun, Nov 20 2016 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Season 2017
25 episodes
E01
Peru - It Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
Tue, Mar 14 2017 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Thousands of travellers, many of them young Australians, are flocking to the Amazon to chase the highs of the ayahuasca plant. Tragically, some never return. Hamish Macdonald investigates. #ForeignCorrespondent (Return)
E02
South America - Venezuela Undercover
Tue, Mar 21 2017 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E03
Line in the Sand
Tue, Mar 28 2017 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
India's building boom has spawned a "sand mafia" that is plundering the environment and even killing those who get in its way. But as Samantha Hawley reports, some people refuse to be intimidated.
E04
China - The Big Goal
Tue, Apr 4 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
China is executing a masterplan to dominate world football, pumping billions of dollars into buying foreign players, coaches & entire European clubs & grooming new generations of its own young stars.
E05
USA - Resist!
Tue, Apr 11 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's famed as the city of peace and love, but San Francisco is digging in for a fight over President Trump's order to expel millions of undocumented migrants. Stephanie March reports.
E06
Spain - Saving the Big Blue
Tue, Apr 18 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E07
Poland/Czech Republic - The Real Great Escape
Tue, Apr 25 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent tells the true story behind the legendary movie The Great Escape - and the overlooked role of Australians in breaking out of the "escape proof" German POW camp
E08
The Last Eagle Hunters
Tue, May 2 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent takes a spectacular journey into the wilds of Mongolia in search of an ancient, imperilled tradition - the Kazakh golden eagle hunters.
E09
Australia - The Home Show
Tue, May 9 2017 11:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Australia is a tough place to buy a home. But we're not alone. So what are other countries doing to tackle high cost housing - and what bright ideas can we pinch from them? Hamish Macdonald hosts this special report.
E10
Australia - A Man of the World
Tue, May 16 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In this special tribute episode to Mark Colvin Foreign Correspondent reports on his legacy as a foreign correspondent, as well as a virtual correspondent, harnessing Twitter as a portal to dive into big, breaking stories.
E11
UK - Hunting the KGB Killers
Tue, May 23 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
For the first time, British investigators tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon. (Part 1 of 2)
E12
UK - Taking on the Kremlin
Tue, May 30 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
British investigators continue to tell the inside story of the bizarre murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. In a tale that's stranger than fiction, a teapot is the murder weapon.
E13
UK - Saving Wales
Tue, Jun 6 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Labour is praying for one of history's great comebacks in Britain's election. But something once unthinkable may be happening in Wales. Are the tough, working class Welsh flirting with the Tories? Philip Williams reports.
E14
Indonesia - Life in Kerokoban
Tue, Jun 13 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A Foreign Correspondent exclusive: Unprecedented access inside Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail.
E15
USA - Space Invaders
Tue, Jun 20 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A new space race is on, as tech companies rush to launch thousands of tiny satellites that will tell us more about what's happening on our planet than ever before. But will the information be used for good, or for harm?
E16
Through American Eyes
Tue, Jun 27 2017 10:30 AM GMT+0000
60 min
ABC NEWS & The New York Times collaborate on a special in which New York Times National Correspondent John Eligon examines the state of race relations in Australia through the fresh eyes of a journalist from Missouri.
E17
Estonia - We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Tue, Jul 4 2017 11:20 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Tiny Estonia is digging in against potential attacks from its giant neighbour Russia. And it's employing defences far more creative than guns and boots on the ground. Eric Campbell reports.
E18
Kenya - Not Everybody Wants a Goat
Tue, Jul 11 2017 11:20 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Matt Brown reports from Kenya on a radical cash experiment that challenges our deep-rooted notions of charity and may hold the seeds of a revolution in social welfare.
E19
Jamaica - One Love
Tue, Jul 18 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E20
UK - Manchester United
Tue, Jul 25 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E21
The Philippines - Escape from Marawi
Tue, Aug 1 2017 11:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Thousands of people have been caught up in a brutal new ISIS battleground on Australia's doorstep. One of them was ABC correspondent Adam Harvey, who took a bullet to the neck. This is his story, and theirs. (Season Final)
E22
The Dome
Mon, Nov 27 2017 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Climate change meets nuclear legacy as Mark Willacy examines the aftermath of the US nuclear tests in the Pacific in the 1940s and 50s.
E23
Happy Birthday Mr President
Mon, Dec 4 2017 9:30 AM GMT+0000
45 min
Vladimir Putin crushes opponents, but a growing army of young Russians is fighting back. Their gift to the strongman on his 65th birthday? A show of defiance and a demand to quit. Eric Campbell reports.
E24
Iraq - Machine Man
Mon, Dec 11 2017 9:30 AM GMT+0000
45 min
He fled Saddam Hussein's brutality to become detainee #982 in an Australian refugee camp. Now Munjed al-Muderis is a world-leading surgeon giving amputees a second chance at life. Sophie McNeill tells his inspiring story.
E25
China - The Love Boat
Mon, Dec 18 2017 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
While Australia says 'yes', the country with more gay people than most says an implacable 'no'. But in China, a determined group of young men and women just won't take no for an answer, as Matthew Carney reports.
Season 2018
16 episodes
E01
The New Italian Job
Mon, Jan 8 2018 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The old is new. Ditching conventional careers, a generation of hip young Italians is rediscovering the grand tradition of "Made in Italy". Hamish Macdonald takes an exhilarating road trip to meet them.
E02
Redneck Revolt
Mon, Jan 15 2018 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A year into Donald Trump's presidency resurgent white supremacists are preaching hate. Now left-wing activists are hitting back with their own shock tactics. Stephanie March goes inside a controversial radical group.
E03
The Baby Trade
Mon, Jan 22 2018 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A cruel trade is tearing baby orangutans from their jungle homes to be sold abroad. Samantha Hawley gets a smuggler's story - and meets the warriors risking their lives to save the great apes from extinction.
E04
On Top of the World
Mon, Jan 29 2018 9:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Is the world going mad when Greenlanders fight drought & brush fires & catch warm water fish? A decade after seeing a farming boom in Greenland, Eric Campbell returns to see how locals face climate change.
E05
On His Own Terms
Tue, Jul 10 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
45 min
This is the inside story of 104-year-old activist David Goodall's last days in Europe as he farewells family and campaigns for the right to die, up to his final hour.
E06
Don't Call Australia Home!
Tue, Jul 17 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Australia is detaining, cuffing and deporting more New Zealanders than any other group. Guest reporter Peter FitzSimons finds it's riling Kiwis and straining relations across The Ditch. Is this how we treat an old mate?
E07
Blockchain Island
Tue, Jul 24 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A tropical paradise is racked with bankruptcy then smashed by a killer hurricane. In rides a cavalry of digital evangelists selling hi-tech revolution. Will they save the day? Eric Campbell reports.
E08
Bloodland
Tue, Jul 31 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On the sprawling maizefields outside Johannesburg, the Engelbrecht family knows the full horror of the farm attacks that are so commonplace they no longer rate a headline.Last Mother's Day Jo-an Engelbrecht was expecting his elderly father and mother for lunch. When they failed to appear, he walked up to their house."They were tied. My dad was lying on his back, my mother was lying face down. Their throats were slit, they were tortured," he says. The killers had extracted the keys to their safes and cars."My dad knew it was coming. We all know it's coming. It's just a question of when," says Jo-an.The old couple were duly added to the tally of farm murders that some Afrikaners believe are part of a wider political campaign to drive them off the land. While the numbers – some say 47 last year, others say 84 – are in dispute, there's no argument that the crimes are horrifying.But as Jonathan Holmes reports, they pale beside the nearly 20,000 South Africans, black and white, who were murdered in 2017 alone.In this confronting report, Holmes asks whether the killing of white farmers is just a tragic fact of life, and death, in one of the world's most violent societies - or whether it is indeed politically or racially motivated.The siege mentality of white farmers is magnified by radical politicians like Julius Malema. His Economic Freedom Fighters party sprang from the country's chronic failure to deliver land to landless blacks."We are taking the future into our own hands," he tells a rally of dancing followers in their red berets. Then a chant: "Shoot to kill! Shoot to kill! Pow, pow!" as he pulls an imaginary trigger.Recently Malema wedged the governing ANC into supporting expropriation of land without compensation. So far, the government has not seized any farmland without paying for it.But white farmers say that already the private market for farmland has collapsed. "Why would you buy a farm if tomorrow the government is going to take it?" asks Jo-an Engelbrecht.For now, Engelbrecht is digging in on his farm in the faint hope that President Cyril Ramaphosa can stabilise a country wracked by crime and corruption after a decade of Jacob Zuma's rule. But for his daughter Tessa, her grandparents' murder was the final straw. She wants out – maybe to Australia, if those hints of fast track visas materialise. "I wouldn't think twice if I got the chance," she says.
E09
Tipping Point
Tue, Aug 7 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
China sent Australia's recycling industry into a spin when it banned most waste imports. Now it's tackling a home-grown rubbish crisis. Bill Birtles looks at China's own war on waste and asks: is it winning?
E10
To Burn or Not To Burn
Tue, Aug 14 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
There's a new push in Australia to build incinerators to burn our waste. Is this the way to go? Those clever Swedes think so. Foreign Correspondent sends War on Waste's Craig Reucassel to Sweden to investigate.As Australia grapples with growing piles of waste, the idea of burning it is getting some heavyweight backers, the federal energy minister among them.So will incineration work? Can it be clean? Is it cost-effective?And if we invest in this technology at a time when China has stopped taking a lot of our recyclables, will this mean our recyclables end up being burnt?Sweden is held up as a leader in managing waste. And as one of the world's biggest innovators, it's also one of the biggest incinerators.So War on Waste's Craig Reucassel goes to Sweden to see if it holds the solution to Australia's waste crisis.The Swedes only landfill one per cent of their waste and their government goes so far as to claim a phenomenal 99 per cent recycling rate. In many places, their food waste is collected and made into bio-fuel for their Volvos.In the capital Stockholm, each time their kerbside wheelie bins are emptied, a sensor beeps and the household gets billed. So if they put their bins out less, they pay less. "We save money just by sorting our garbage," says resident Sara Jarnhed.But the centrepiece of Sweden's waste management strategy is its chain of 34 vast waste furnaces that turn waste into energy for power and heating.Sweden even makes about $100 million a year from importing waste, burning thousands of tonnes from Britain and other countries who don't know what else to do with it – and pay Sweden to get rid of it.Problem solved? Not so fast. As Australia considers whether to go down the incineration road, Craig Reucassel follows the waste trail in Sweden to discover that we do have plenty to learn from Sweden's experience - but not all of it is good.Presenter - Craig ReucasselProducer - Deborah RichardsCamera - Mathew MarsicEditor - Nikki StevensExecutive Producer - Marianne Leitch
E11
The Village
Tue, Aug 21 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney, who is suffering motor neurone disease, makes an emotional return to PNG tonight in Foreign Correspondent.Sean Dorney got thrown out of PNG for his reporting, yet he received one of its top honours. He skippered its footy team and fell for a local girl. Now suffering motor neurone disease, he makes an emotional final visit.For most Australians, Manus Island evokes a grim, now-shuttered detention centre, nothing more. But for veteran ABC correspondent Sean Dorney, it's paradise.It's where he married a chief's daughter, Pauline, after draining his bank account to pay bride price, and where the embrace of a vast extended family awaits…People have said to me that Pauline is like a princess in Manus, whereas you're just a commoner -– Dorney…And it's where Sean and his beloved Pauline are now returning, in what will probably be his last time in PNG, the country that's defined his life.The thing is I've now got motor neurone disease. I may have just two years left - DorneyAs his boat touches shore, a burly tribesman lifts the frail Dorney and carries him to the sand. Tears flow in a tempest of drums and song.Even the smallest children are constantly dancing. I'm no longer up to the more vigorous moves – but even with a walking stick one can but try – Dorney at welcome ceremonySean Dorney first reported on PNG before it won independence from Australia. He ended up a household name, thanks to his reporting of political crises, disasters and daily life struggles.Thanks too to his place in the national rugby league side. His team mates called him "Grasscutter" for his tackling style. It's a sport that unites a country where 860 languages are spoken… though Pauline needed lots of persuasion.I was thinking, do they call this sport? This is not sport. This is a bunch of dogs fighting over chicken bones – Pauline Nare, Sean's wifeOn this farewell journey to PNG, Dorney makes a special report for Foreign Correspondent. He finds nuggets of progress, like more girls getting educated. He unleashes his frustrations in trying to inform Australians about their nearest neighbour, about whom they seem to care little.Frankly I'm appalled at the lack of coverage in Australia – DorneyIt's his journey as a sick man to his and Pauline's Manus clan that showcases PNG's great treasure… the pulsating villages where 80 per cent of its people live. They're poor but they enjoy what Sean calls "subsistence affluence".In Tulu, Sean is initiated as a clan chief, a first for an outsider. Then, before Sean is carried back into the boat, comes Tulu's healing ceremony, unforgettable in its passion and unimaginably removed from the high-tech Australian medicine to which he will return.Few correspondents have etched themselves more deeply into the life of a country they've covered than Sean Dorney.
E12
Homeland
Tue, Aug 28 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correspondent Eric Campbell goes inside Berlin's Jewish diaspora in his report, "Homeland," and asks why so many Israeli's are settling in Germany.Why choose to live in the place where your people's extermination was conceived, planned and directed?It's the question facing the 13,000 or so Israelis who have started new lives in Berlin - and who, if Hitler had had his way, may never have lived at all.It's a bit like dancing on his grave – and I like dancing. So why not? – Shirah Roth, Israeli comedianIsraelis in Berlin are now among the world's fastest growing Jewish populations, to the dismay of some compatriots who sense a betrayal. But these mostly young Jews aren't forgetting history. Holocaust reminders – memorials and Nazi-era architecture – are all over Berlin.Creepy is part of life. To see life actually growing out of this death, that's fantastic – Shirah RothFor young creatives like Shirah or musician-journalist Ofer Waldman, the magnet is Berlin's chic arts scene, its cultural medley and free thinking. As an early arrival in 1999, Waldman stood out. It was like, ‘You're a Jew?' It's like, "Oh my God, we've never seen a living one' – Ofer WaldmanWaldman runs a group that promotes equality with Arabs. He realises he is a beneficiary of Germany's lingering guilt.Being a Jewish Israeli here, we have a louder voice because of the past. That's a privilege – Ofer WaldmanBerlin's Jews do face a rise in European anti-Semitism, which has spurred Germany to introduce tough new laws against hate speech. But fears of hate crime are, for many, outweighed by a weariness of life in Israel – its perpetual war footing, cost of living or social expectations.It's back in Israel where reporter Eric Campbell finds Avi Binyamin, 32, who grew up in an ultra-Orthodox family.I was supposed to be a rabbi by now, with five or 10 children - Avi BinyaminInstead he went secular and became a gym instructor. Now he is packing his bags for Berlin. He looks forward to a more open-minded society.Even if we are forced to live by the sword here in Israel… I'd want us to educate our children that it's not the default position, that there are also other ways - Avi BinyaminAvi's Israeli girlfriend has already settled in Berlin and awaits him there. His little brother will follow him soon.
E13
The French Letter
Tue, Sep 4 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Hollywood's blockbuster #MeToo movement took the world by storm, giving voice to women and causing powerful men to hit the speed dial to their lawyers and PR flacks.Then it met the French resistance.More than 100 prominent French women – including screen goddess Catherine Deneuve - signed the now famous "Le Monde Letter" denouncing #Metoo. They pledged to "defend a freedom to bother as indispensable to sexual freedom" and sympathised with "men who've been disciplined in the workplace… when their only crime was to touch a woman's knee or steal a kiss".So what is it about sex and seduction a la francaise? Does #MeToo threaten a proud libertine tradition that differentiates France from stitched-up Anglo-Saxon culture? Or do such ideas belong to the bygone era of lustful cartoon skunk Pepe Le Lew?Reporter Annabel Crabb goes to Paris to interrogate the Le Monde women and their critics from the French #MeToo movement, as well as some mildly confused males."Women like to be protected," says ex-porn star, radio host and Le Monde signatory Brigitte Lahaie. "Wanting to be equal to men takes away this possibility of feeling protected and nurturing sexuality, desire and eroticism." Crabb asks how that view squares with a recent government survey of female public transport users. How many respondents reported having been harassed while travelling? 100 per cent.The Macron Government has pledged a new era of equality for women and has introduced a controversial on-the-spot fine for sexual harassment in public. But it baulked at the last minute in its attempt to introduce a legal age of consent in France for the first time."Rape is minimised in France. Most people think it's not such a big deal," says Adelaide Bon, a writer and former actress who was raped as a child.Scientist and philosopher Peggy Sastre co-wrote the Le Monde letter. She spies danger in the naming and shaming promoted by #MeToo and its French counterpart Balance ton Porc – "Call Out Your Pig". "We must not go back to some medieval logic," she says. "It leads to witch hunts, to a lot of excesses, to a lot of people wrongly accused."Young YouTube star Marion Seclin, whose anti-harassment videos go viral, dismisses Sastre and the other Le Monde signatories as the old guard of French womanhood."I don't need someone to open the door for me or pay for my dinner because I earn my own money," she says.
E14
A Big Piece of Good News
Tue, Sep 11 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Jack and Laura Dangermond spent their honeymoon in a pup tent on a remote and spectacular stretch of southern Californian coast. They were students, idealistic and broke.We both fell in love with that place – Jack DangermondOver the next 50 years the Dangermonds grew into billionaires, and all through those years they witnessed the unabating march of suburbia up and down the coast. Their old honeymoon haunt became part of a vast property owned by a hedge fund that develops coastal real estate.We just thought, ‘Well, we just have to do this' – Laura DangermondSo Jack and Laura spied a chance and swooped, shelling out $225 million to save for all time a 10,000 hectare tract of pristine coast and its hinterland of oak forests, hills, canyons and grasslands.I didn't believe what I was hearing. This was a big piece of good news – Mike Bell from The Nature Conservancy, the environmental NGO which was handed the land, its biggest gift ever, by the DangermondsJack and Laura Dangermond are private people who rarely talk to media. But they open up to Foreign Correspondent about how they pulled off this big green deal, and why. They hope their gift will inspire similar acts, big and small, and there is urgency to their message.Time is running out. It's not dark yet but it's late in the day – and people are going to have to move to do this kind of thing in small ways and large ways all over the planet, really quickly – Jack DangermondNow they're challenging Australia's richest people to take a lead as well.I want everybody in Australia getting this idea. I want those who really have large means to look at the amazing places in Australia before it's too late. And everybody else in Australia to plant one more tree, protect one more thing, to play at all levels - Jack DangermondThe Dangermonds' conservation coup has come against the run of play, with the Trump administration seeking to roll back environmental safeguards and open up new territory for commercial development.As North America correspondent Zoe Daniel discovers, Jack and Laura are no left-wing ideologues. Their environmental passion is founded on the hard data that drives their business. Founded nearly 50 years ago, their company ESRI leads the world in digital mapping, its software used by 350,000 organisations to predict flash floods, ease traffic snarls, help the homeless or plot the next Starbucks.I like maps. They're a kind of language, the language of geography, the language of human activities, the language of understanding – Jack Dangermond
E15
Leave No Dark Corner
Tue, Sep 18 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's innocuously called "Social Credit". In fact it's a dystopian personal scorecard for every one of China's 1.4 billion citizens.Jaywalking, late paying of bills or taxes, buying too much alcohol or, much worse, mouthing off against the government will see you lose points and accumulate punishments like the right to travel by plane or train.Model citizens, fear not. You will gain bonus points and rewards like the waiving of deposits on hotels and rental cars.If people keep their promises they can go anywhere in the world. If people break their promises they won't be able to move an inch! – Jie Cong, Tianjin General Manager, financial credit system Alipay"Leave No Dark Corner" is a slogan China's authorities have long used to root out "unstable elements". It can equally be applied to Social Credit, which builds on China's formidable history of surveilling its people.Already about 200 million cameras sweep its cities. That number is set to triple by 2020. Combine these with rapid advances in facial recognition, body scanning and geo-tracking, add each individual's digital history and behaviours, and there you have it: a personal score ranking your trustworthiness.Dandan, a young mother and marketing professional, is proud of her high credit score. If she keeps it up her infant son will be more likely to get into a top school.China likes to experiment in this creative way… I think people in every country want a stable and safe society - DandanWe need a social credit system. We hope we can help each other, love each other and help everyone to become prosperous – Dandan's civil servant husband XiaojingSocial Credit is still being trialled – it's supposed to be fully operational by 2020 – but already an estimated 10 million people are paying the price of a low rating. Corruption-busting journalist Liu Hu is one of them.The government regards me as an enemy – Liu HuAfter exposing official corruption, Liu Hu was arrested, jailed and fined. Now a poor Social Credit rating bars him from travelling by plane or fast train. His social media accounts with millions of followers have been suspended. He struggles to find work.This kind of social control is against the tide of the world. The Chinese people's eyes are blinded and their ears are blocked. They know little about the world and are living in an illusion – Liu HuFrom Beijing, Correspondent Matthew Carney travels to the north western province of Xinjiang, where China's surveillance machine is at its most ruthless. Here, the UN estimates that about 1 million Islamic Uighur people are being held in re-education camps.The surveillance system suddenly ramped up after the end of 2016. Since then, advanced surveillance technology which we've never seen, never experienced, never heard of, started appearing – Tahir Hamut, Uighur poet and filmmaker who fled to the US.Reporter - Matthew Carney Producer - Alex Barry, Cecily Huang Camera - Brant Cumming, Adrian Wilson Editor - Pete O'Donoghue Graphics - Andres Gomez Isaza Executive Producer - Marianne Leitch
E16
Eye of the Fire
Tue, Sep 25 2018 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The fire came without warning, exploding in the twilight. It ripped through bushy hills and roared down on the little seaside haven of Mati, just outside Athens.In Australia, we'd have a plan in place. There would be a text message saying, ‘the fire is at such and such. Get out.' - Stella Tzaninis, Greek-Australian part time Mati residentBut this was Greece. Burning cars choked narrow lanes. Illegally built houses blocked escape routes to the sea. Fumbling police sent traffic into the path of the inferno. I can hear the people - in the cars, the old people, lots of old people. You can do nothing – Alex Tzaninis, who tried to help people to safety Many who did make it to the beach died of burns or drowned as nearby tourist ferries kept plying their trade, emptying more cars into the fire zone.By the time firefighters came, Mati was gone. By the time fireman Andreas Dimitriou came home, his fatally injured wife Margarita was alongside his dead baby son.I don't know who to be angry with – angry with God? Angry with people? Angry with myself? – Andreas DimitriouAndreas' wife and son are part of a death toll that stands at 99 and may still go higher.Greece is ringing with recriminations.I cannot think of a single part that went right in this disaster. How is it possible that the system could leave these people so helpless? In Greece there is no culture of planning for big public emergencies - Costas Synolakis, crisis management expertWas this simply a case of bungling and zero planning? Or something more? Greeks are arguing whether deep spending cuts from EU-imposed austerity made a bad situation truly catastrophic.Firefighters say their budgets and wages have been cut; they even have to buy their own uniforms. Many fire trucks sit unrepaired and useless, while water-bombing planes are frequently grounded.We've been paying with our own blood for a debt they created. It was not an accident. It is a crime demanding justice and punishment – former parliamentary Speaker Zoe KonstantopoulouReporter - Eric CampbellProducer - Mark CorcoranCamera - Greg NelsonEditor - Garth ThomasExecutive Producer - Marianne Leitch*This is the last episode of Foreign Correspondent's current season. The program will return in early January.
Season 2019
24 episodes
E01
Man v Wild
Tue, Jan 8 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Man vs Wild – a vivid illustration of development colliding with nature.In India's far east, wild elephants are in deadly, daily conflict with people. Siobhan Heanue follows the clashes as roaming herds get squeezed by shrinking forests and a growing human population.Our Indian cameraman Gurmeet saw the attack as he fled…"I saw a cloud of dust, one elephant charging over one man, and that man got under the feet of the elephant. We thought ‘this dude is dead'"The man under the elephant was our local guide, Sanu. Amazingly he survived, with just a few scratches."My feet slipped… the elephant hit me. I'm lucky, or I'd be dead by now," Sanu explains to his wife. "Why were you such a show-off?" she snaps.Danger is ever-present in Assam state in India's north east, where 6000 elephants live among 30 million people. The animals' forest habitat is being sliced up for new rice paddies, tea plantations, roads and villages. Their old migratory trails, up to 1000 kilometres long, are strewn with man-made obstacles.So the big herds are hemmed in, with nowhere to go. They raid villages and crops for food. They kill and terrify local people. Last year in Assam state alone, elephants killed at least 64 people.Elephants are sacred in India and evoke the image of the popular Hindu deity Ganesh. But patience is thin among farmers when entire rice harvests are destroyed."Yes, they're hungry but we're hungry too," says Sharayan Bodo, who guards his crop at night armed with a crude spear. "Lord Ganesh is a god, but elephants are not."As correspondent Siobhan Heanue discovers, the elephants are taunted nearly everywhere they go as crowds of locals pelt them with rocks, firecrackers and shot pellets. Sometimes they move on, as intended. Sometimes they attack."I'm still shaking from the noise and ferocity of something that big coming towards you," says Heanue, after fleeing an angry female elephant which had been separated from her calf."Due to the encounters with humans, the elephants have changed their behaviour," says conservationist and filmmaker Rita Banarji. "They are more aggressive than they used to be."Despite the conflict and a recent fall in India's elephant population, Banarji is determinedly optimistic. She sees a "win-win situation" ahead and sets out how to strike a delicate balance between the needs of people and those of the giants that roam among them.
E02
Walk In Their Shoes
Tue, Jan 15 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Walk In Their ShoesRarely does America see anything like this - a huge press of humanity streaming through Mexico, dreaming of life across the US border. Donald Trump, his administration paralysed over the $8 billion wall he needs to shut them out, calls them invaders. So who are these people and what are they fleeing?They've killed most of my family - my dad, my brother. We're running. Only God is with us – Tatyana, on the gang violence in her homeland HondurasNow Tatyana and the other migrants have been warned, by none less than President Trump, that they risk being shot by US agents if they push too hard at the border.She and her husband Ruben, with their two small children and another well on the way, press on.I'm prepared to die trying to make a better future for my family - Ruben Daniel, 13, is risking his life to buy a future. He is estranged from his mother, who sells drugs for a gang back home in El Salvador. His only choice there, he says, was to join a gang or run.Too much violence and drugs, they kill you for nothing. I need to study, just study – DanielOn the long road, rumours swirl.I heard that the president will open the doors for us – Victor, a teenager from El SalvadorOver several weeks Foreign Correspondent follows the halting progress of two migrant caravans – one from Honduras, one from El Salvador – as they slowly wend their way through Mexico.Most migrants say they are fleeing gang violence. Now they face a kidnap and murder threat from drug cartels as they make their way up La Ruta de la Muerte, or "Road of Death".Constant movement equals constant fatigue. At 5 am a weary mother rouses her teary child when it's time to move again: Let's go, let's go -- No, no I don't want to, I want to stay here on my own! Some give up on their American dream and turn back home.We have come this far for nothing – Honduran manBut when Eric Campbell catches up with the thousands of migrants massing in Tijuana, near the US border, he finds that for a lucky few, fortune has swung their way.
E03
Vanilla Slice
Tue, Jan 22 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Behind our craving for vanilla-flavoured ice cream, cakes and chocolate, or for vanilla-scented perfumes, there's a rattling tale of fast money, skulduggery and the precarious fate of an iconic animal.A few years ago, the humble vanilla bean sold for $80 a kilo. Now it's $800. In vividly beautiful, dirt-poor Madagascar, supplier of most of the world's vanilla, that means good times roll.Vanilla is the best, vanilla is the crazy money. No income better in Madagascar - and I think the world! – Yockno, who is swapping tour guiding for vanilla farming.By day, Prisco is a hustler who buys and sells vanilla in the street. By night, in a seedy bar, he sings of his love for the bean, and what it can get him…Girl, come and weigh the vanilla, there's enough for whatever you want! – Prisco's song lyricPrisco is a bit player in a vast vanilla ecosystem. In the vanilla hub of Sambava, brokers plough money into shiny multi-story mansions. In big export warehouses, women sort their way through hillocks of beans. They're frisked before they go home, just in case they've filched any. In rural areas at harvest time, small farmers guard their crops overnight from roaming thieves. If the farmers catch them, justice is swift and sometimes deadly. They can do crazy things to them – Yockno, tour guide and vanilla farmerLong before the tense harvest, there's an operation that demands the utmost delicacy. Each vanilla flower must be hand-pollinated – a trick invented by a 12-year-old slave boy in the 1840s. Using a tiny thorn, Yockno shows reporter Adam Harvey how it's done.So what I do is push this tongue up…. It's all precision – and timing. Each flower is ready for pollination for only one morning each year.…. and I press softly the male to the female. So now it's done.Vanilla is surely sweet for Madagascar's people, but not for its most celebrated characters – the exquisite lemurs popularised by the Madagascar movie. High vanilla prices are putting pressure on the lemurs' habitat as forest is illegally cut to grow the beans.But as Harvey and the Foreign Correspondent team trek deep into the jungle, they discover – to their delight – that lemurs are hanging on defiantly. Our cameras capture them – bamboo lemurs, white-headed lemurs and critically endangered silky safakas, one of the world's rarest mammals – in all their glory.
E04
Secret Sardinia
Tue, Jan 29 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Secret Sardinia– a story of sickness, secrecy and cover-up ...Sardinia is an island cut in two. Along the white beach-studded Costa Smeralda, a magnet for the rich and famous, a villa can fetch close to $150 million."That house is owned by the head of Volkwagen," says realtor Lorenzo Camillo as he takes reporter Emma Alberici for a sail on his yacht. "Ah there we are - there's the famous Berlusconi villa."But more than a third of Sardinia – including much of its waters – is off limits to locals and visitors, whatever their celebrity. This area is controlled by the Italian military, rented out for some of the world's biggest war games and home to Europe's biggest bomb test site.This has many locals riled. "Islands, little islands have disappeared, erased by missiles shot from the land, the sky and the sea," says former Sardinian president Mauro Pili.Pili has also recorded the destruction of some of Sardinia's unique nuraghe - turret-like stone Bronze Age structures built some 3500 years ago – by test bombs.But it's not cultural vandalism or restricted movement that most concerns Sardinians. In areas near the test sites, there have been high rates of cancers, birth defects and early death.Giancarlo Piras recalls what the doctor said when his son Francesco, who had served as a soldier at a bombing range, got pancreatic cancer at age 27: "By any chance has your son been in contact with radioactive material?"Children were born with deformities including missing limbs. In one village in one year, one in four new born babies had some kind of defect. Sheep grazing on the test sites gave birth to grotesquely twisted lambs. Their shepherds too had phenomenally high rates of cancer.Tissue samples from man and beast showed high levels of a highly toxic material used in many bomb tests. "The longer they lived in the area, the higher the quantity," a nuclear physicist tells Alberici.As public pressure grew for a full accounting, the military pushed back. "If they didn't want us to see something they wouldn't show it to us. They feared we could find something unusual," says an MP who headed a parliamentary inquiry.Generals went on the front foot, blaming people's illnesses on close inbreeding. With much fanfare, they announced a scientific inquiry. But as Alberici reports, evidence shows they nobbled it.
E05
The Promised Land
Tue, Feb 5 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On his sleepless nights, Imran paces the floor grappling with ghosts from half a world away and many months past.I'm wide awake and I call my friends' names. ‘Hey Zainal! Hey Faisal! Where are you?' But they're not here, they're on Manus – Imran, 24, Rohingya refugee who spent nearly five years on Manus IslandBut come daylight, Imran can revel in his new home - Chicago, 14,000 kilometres from Manus. It's been more than seven years since, aged 16, he fled persecution in Myanmar. Along the way he was held hostage by people smugglers and detained in Indonesia before making his fateful journey to Christmas Island. Now, thanks to a refugee deal with the US, he has a job and is finishing school.I'm free, that's all that matters to me. People have been welcoming and I am loved. So, it's home, it definitely feels like home – ImranAn old friend of Imran's from Manus is also making a new life. Amir was 14 when he left Iran. Now 25 and living in Vancouver on Canada's west coast, Amir has a job in tourism and is set to study law. His good fortune flows from a chance meeting with Chelsea Taylor, a Melbourne nurse who worked on Manus and talked her Canadian-Australian parents into sponsoring him.You rescued me from an island which so many governments and so many countries were not able to do – Amir, to Chelsea's parents Wayne and Linda in VancouverCorrespondent Eric Tlozek first met Amir and Imran on Manus Island more than 18 months ago. He follows them from behind the wire to their new lives in North America in the most intimate and detailed account so far of life for Manus refugees.In Canada and the US, Tlozek meets Australian expats, like Wayne Taylor and fashion designer Fleur Wood, who are pitching in to help ex-detainees now that Australia is done with them. When I heard about them being resettled in America I knew how little help they'd be getting - Fleur Wood, co-founder of Australian Diaspora Steps UpNearly 500 ex-Manus and Nauru detainees are scattered across the US, receiving only brief and basic support from the government. Wood's group hustles to find them housing, bedding and clothing.When Wood searches for some Rohingyas who are just off Nauru, she ends up at a rundown building in North Chicago where four men share a tiny apartment, eking out casual work, dishwashing and cleaning. One is seriously ill.After five years on Nauru, these men aren't coping with their newfound freedom in America. They still want to come to Australia. Bizarrely, some even want to go back to Nauru.But for those who are faring better, life is what you make of it.You can be in the worst place on this planet and make it a heaven for yourself. And you can be in the best country on this planet and make it a hell for yourself – Amir in Vancouver
E06
Running Amok
Tue, Feb 12 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Can you imagine your favourite footy team getting to a game in an armoured personnel carrier? Ever been to a match where the visiting team's fans are banned?Such is the fear and violence infecting "the beautiful game" in our near neighbour Indonesia.Indonesia is like, insane – Marko Simic, Croatian playing for Jakarta's team PersijaRiot cops with automatic weapons are as much fixtures as goal posts. Brawling is the norm among the militias of fans and their commanders. Rumours of match-fixing swirl, fuelling crowd anger. Everyone wants to watch the game - but then you see the enemy and then you fight – Andibachtiar Yusuf, filmmaker and Persija Jakarta fanAbout 75 fans have been killed in soccer violence in the past 25 years. In a recent eight-month period, 16 died.Thousands more have been injured.He never asked for trouble. He was just watching a game – mother of 23-year-old Ari, Jakarta Persija fan who was beaten to death by dozens of Bandung supportersWhen fights erupt amid flashes of smoke flares and thunder of drums, games are stopped mid-way. Recently the entire league competition was suspended for a fortnight. It's got so bad that some football fans are prepared to see the game shut down indefinitely.Football in Indonesia has become a graveyard, not entertainment. Supporters' lives should never be sacrificed for our love of football – Akmal Marhali, head of NGO Save our SoccerCorrespondent David Lipson immerses himself among "Jakmania" - the Persija Jakarta fans who are as fiery as any in Indonesia - in their race for the championship title. His quest is to understand what drives such violence in a mostly Muslim nation that forswears alcohol.The word "amok" originates from this part of the world and was first recorded in the 17th century. It resonates today. In Running Amok, Lipson explores a fundamentalist fandom that's become the ugly face of football Indonesian-style.
E07
Out of Breath
Tue, Feb 19 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
If ever there was a project to build bridges between North Korea and the rest of us, this is it.Every six months, without fanfare, medics and volunteers from the US, South Korea and other countries head to the North Korean countryside where they link up with local doctors and nurses to treat patients suffering from the deadly multi-drug resistant TB (MDRTB).As an outsider you're sort of pulling two worlds together. When I stand in front of North Koreans, most of whom have never seen a non-Asian in their entire lives, I represent a sort of visual spectacle. I represent Americans who they've been taught all of their lives to believe are their enemy – Dr Stephen Linton, founder of the US-based Eugene Bell FoundationMDRTB strikes close to 500,000 people worldwide each year, many of them in North Korea.It's a very painful way to die. But the cruellest thing about TB is that it's infectious. You don't just die – you actually kill the people you love – Dr K. J. Seung, Eugene Bell FoundationOver time the volunteers become emotionally attached to the patients, unashamedly so. On one of her first trips Hyuna Linton met a 14-year-old girl with MDRTB. Six months later, Hyuna returned with medicine and hope. It was too late.My heart broke then. She was the first patient who died that I can remember – Hyuna Linton, Eugene Bell FoundationNorth Korean doctor Im Soonhee dreads facing the family of any patient who's died.I feel sorry and guilty. I feel we didn't try hard enough or care for them enough – Dr Im, North KoreaDeep emotional bonds also form between the foreigners and their North Korean hosts.I remember Dr Im touching my cheek and saying, ‘Don't get sick.' I realised how much she worries about us. That kind of warmth is special – Hyuna Linton, volunteer, Eugene Bell FoundationTheir cultural differences put aside, the teams share not only grief but also moments of joy. Such as when a teenage girl recovering from the disease announces her life's new goal:I want to study medicine. I want to cure people who are sick like me – Youngshim, patientDefying a common perception of North Koreans as automatons, this film presents them as real people who laugh and cry and love. It's also a rare insight into a part of the world that's been mostly hidden from western eyes.Out of Breath – from filmmaker Hein S. Seok.
E08
Climate Hackers
Tue, Feb 26 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E09
The Oasis
Tue, Mar 5 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A radical experiment in democracy and women's rights is under way in the old badlands of Islamic State. But as Yaara Bou Melhem reports, it could be crushed in an instant.It was love at first sight – Azad, 26. My dreams are coming true! – Bercem, 19Lovestruck couple Azad and Bercem are about to get married. They want the usual things - kids, a nice house, a car. They're just hoping war doesn't get in the way.Azad and Bercem live in the town of Kobani in north eastern Syria, smack bang in the former territory of Islamic State. Their dream of a normal, peaceful life is shared by millions of fellow Kurds who now lead control of this area and are carving out a bold new system – a direct, secular democracy that enshrines gender equality. For Azad and Bercem, that means getting married in a civil ceremony, no sheikh required.We are building democracy, building a life we'd never dreamed of - AzadIn the drably named Autonomous Administration of North Eastern Syria, women hold 50 percent of official positions. Incredibly, Raqqa, the once notorious capital of Islamic State, is now headed by a young woman, Leila Mustapha. The bomber jacket-clad Mustapha is using her civil engineering skills to rebuild the city which will include a makeover of the square where IS displayed crucified and decapitated bodies. The locals called it ‘Hell Roundabout' because of all the brutal acts committed here – Leila MustaphaAs she tours Raqqa with reporter Yaara Bou Melhem, she does what would have been unthinkable under ISIS: she shakes hands with men on a worksite. But ISIS isn't wholly gone. It clings to a tiny pocket of territory south of Raqqa, moving among civilians as protection from attack, as Yaara Bou Melham discovers on a trip to the frontline.The Kurdish-led authority has some 900 ISIS foreign fighters in jail and it wants their home countries to take them back. One prisoner tells Bou Melhem how ISIS pushed its fighters:If you're not going to fight, you're not going to eat. People, kids, died from starvation - prisonerISIS is now the least of the administration's problems. To the west they must deal with Syria's Assad regime and to the north, the biggest worry, Turkey, which has sworn to smash the Kurds when Donald Trump pulls out American troops.Soldier Azad and journalist Bercem know a Turkish invasion could wreck their new life together. They will do what they know best.If necessary, he will go to war – BercemShe will report the situation and expose it to the world – Azad
E10
Saving Venice
Tue, Mar 12 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The "Floating City" is sinking under rising seas and the weight of mass tourism. Now Venice's residents are fighting to reclaim it, as Samantha Hawley reports.
E11
Opioid America
Tue, Mar 19 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A secretive billionaire family pushes a pill that triggers more deaths than guns or car crashes. From backwoods Appalachia to hi tech San Francisco, Conor Duffy investigates America's opioid scourge.Nan Goldin and thousands of Americans like her are coming after the Sacklers."We have to bring down the Sackler family!" she yells in a protest rally in New York. "They should be in jail next to El Chapo."Goldin, a noted photographer, was addicted to Oxycontin, an opioid painkiller that's twice the strength of morphine.This little pill – backed by aggressive marketing to doctors and consumers - made the Sackler family its $13 billion fortune. It also tripped an emergency that kills 900 Americans each week and grips two million more in addiction.Oxycontin was supposed to ease pain for the terminally ill. But via their private company Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers flogged it for everything from stress to crook backs."I can't explain how happy I am today. I mean, it's just wonderful," gushed a construction worker in a 1999 Oxycontin ad.Purdue and the Sacklers now face a welter of lawsuits alleging they knew how addictive Oxycontin would be. It could be the biggest class action ever."We're going to get a tobacco-sized verdict against Purdue Pharma," says ex-Oxycontin addict Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy and nephew of JFK.Purdue, abetted by doctors and pharmacies, showered one West Virginian county's 20,000 people with 12 million Oxycontin pills – that's 600 apiece."That drug just about wiped out this county," says local sheriff Martin West. The sheriff estimates more than a fifth of his county is now addicted to opioids, heroin, ice or alcohol.Rocky Kuhn was a champion boxer as a boy. Later, he was addicted to opiates like so many of his old schoolmates."My graduating class – probably a third of ‘em are dead already," he tells reporter Conor Duffy. "And I'm just 33 years old. We didn't have a chance. Nobody had a chance."All too late, authorities restricted Oxycontin – which became a gateway to more lethal but cheaper drugs. Pill addicts first turned to heroin and now to fentanyl, a lethal synthetic opioid 40 times stronger than heroin.The opioid epidemic may have just crested in America's east, but not in the laid-back west coast. San Francisco has long tolerated an open drug culture, but city streets now brim with heroin and fentanyl addicts – 80 per cent of whom started on opioid pills."There are more injecting drug users in San Francisco – about 25,000 - than there are high school students – 16,000," says a furious city attorney Dennis Herrera, who is behind one of the mega writs against Purdue and the Sacklers."This is a major, major problem that is happening right here in one of the richest cities in the country – and despite our efforts, we're being overwhelmed."While Herrera does battle in the courts, it's up to drug harm reduction workers like Paul Harkin to confront the epidemic in the city streets."We're seeing more fentanyl enter cuts in the drugs – and overdose deaths this year are gonna be up," he says, as he hands out clean needles.One of his clients is George, who went from pills to injecting fentanyl-laced heroin. His self-described "King Kong" habit might soon kill him, but he seems more worried about younger addicts. "It's like fuck man, I hate to see people out here so young and they have no get-back," he says."It's like there's no return. It's a point of no return."
E12
The Battle For Rio
Tue, Apr 9 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Democrat or despot? Brazil's new strongman is cracking down on rampant crime – but many fear the "Trump of the Tropics" is turning his country into a police state. Sally Sara reports.
E13
High Steaks
Tue, Aug 6 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the season return, Craig Reucassel investigates the future of food, where plant and animal cell-based meat substitutes challenge America's multi-billion-dollar meat industry.
E14
Taiwan - Death Metal Diplomacy
Tue, Aug 13 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
China is stepping up the pressure on 'renegade province' Taiwan to drag it into the mainland fold. Bill Birtles travels to Taiwan as it battles to keep its independence and democracy from China.
E15
Motherland - Ukraine
Tue, Aug 20 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Ukraine is the new 'go-to' destination for couples desperate to be parents. But Samantha Hawley uncovers an industry out of control that exploits surrogate mothers and leaves babies abandoned.
E16
Homage To Barcelona
Tue, Aug 27 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
When Foreign Correspondent's roving reporter Eric Campbell made Barcelona his base in 2016, he saw it as a place from which to cover stories, not a story in itself.That all changed in 2017 when the Spanish government cracked down hard on an illegal independence referendum held by the regional Catalan government.Thousands of national riot police descended on the Catalan capital of Barcelona, dragging voters away from polling stations, firing rubber bullets and locking up the movement's leaders."They hurt us not only in our skin, they hurt us in our souls," says one independence supporter. "This was a deep injury. I think it will never heal."The brutal repression of the vote provoked months of political turmoiI and divided the city between those in favour of independence and those against.To understand the push for independence, Eric traces today's political passions back to the centuries-old tensions between centrist Spain and Catalonia, when Madrid first repressed the region's distinct language and culture. Then to more recent history, when dictator Francisco Franco tried to kill off the Catalan language and traditions.Today in Barcelona those traditions are very much alive.Eric takes us behind the tourist traps to reveal a city still celebrating its culture, from the neighbourhood ‘castell' – or human castle – competitions, to football games where independence chants are a feature of every match, to riotous medieval festivals with devils, giant puppets and fireworks.As he farewells Barcelona after three years, Eric leaves a community divided politically but united in its passion for its capital and culture.This is an affectionate portrait of an incredible city at an incredible time.
E17
Fallout: The Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
Tue, Sep 3 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The site of the world's worst nuclear accident Chernobyl is now a tourist destination. Linton Besser visits the exclusion zone to see the devastation of nuclear meltdown, government-sanctioned cover-up and radiation sickness.
E18
Mother Courage - Rwanda
Tue, Sep 10 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The inspirational women of Rwanda who have turned pain into hope. They lived through one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century but the power of love and family saved them.
E19
Testing Times
Tue, Sep 17 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
As Australia grapples with a spate of deaths at music festivals, triple j presenter Tom Tilley heads to Europe to see drug testing in action. But is it the only way to keep people safe?
E20
Secrets and Lies
Tue, Sep 24 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's been an open secret for years, Catholic priests fathering children in breach of their vows. After suffering in silence and shame those children are speaking out, demanding answers and recognition from Rome.
E21
Climate Kids
Tue, Oct 1 2019 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
They're young, passionate and want to save the planet. We profile three young activists inspired by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg to mobilise the public and demand action on global warming with climate strikes and at the UN.
E22
The State of Denmark
Tue, Oct 8 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
'What is Danish?' asks comedian Ellie Jokar. Born in Iran, now a Dane, Ellie struggles to understand why her once friendly country has pulled up the welcome mat. Hamish Macdonald explores a nation with an identity crisis.
E23
Insectageddon
Tue, Oct 15 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent travels to Europe to investigate the decline of the insect population, threatening entire ecosystems. Reporter Eric Campbell discovers the causes and the steps in place to reverse the decline.
E24
At the Edge of the Earth - Alaska
Tue, Oct 22 2019 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Alaska's indigenous tribes are fiercely proud of their pristine land and traditions, but as Trump pushes to open up its protected wilderness for oil exploration, Zoe Daniel asks could it be under threat? (Final for 2019)
Season 2020
24 episodes
E01
The Coal War
Tue, Feb 18 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
While Australia ponders opening new coal fields, Germany has reached an agreement between government, mining and energy companies and unions to phase out brown coal by 2038 in return for a $60 billion injection of funds.
E02
Tourist Mecca
Tue, Feb 25 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Sam Hawley gains rare access to the reclusive kingdom of Saudi Arabia as it begins a campaign to become a tourist destination. But is the notoriously repressive, brutal regime ready to open itself up to the outside world?
E03
Paper Orphans
Tue, Mar 3 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Reporter Sally Sara travels to Nepal to uncover an ugly truth: many children living in the more than 500 orphanages across the country are not orphans but victims of traffickers, who prey on poor families in remote areas.
E04
The Peacemaker of Syria
Tue, Mar 10 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
An idealistic young woman who believed in a better future for her war-torn country, Hevrin Khalaf was brutally murdered just days after Turkey's invasion of north-east Syria. Who killed her and why? Yalda Hakim investigates.
E05
The New Mafia
Tue, Mar 17 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Sex, drugs and people smuggling. Emma Alberici braves a no-man's land near Naples to report on a ruthless new criminal group moving in on the Italian mafia. Will the Nigerian mafia be as hard to root out as the local mob?
E06
Life in the Time of Corona
Tue, Mar 24 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Europe's Coronavirus epicentre and a system at breaking point. Italy in lockdown with cases of infection rising by up to a thousand daily, hospitals are swamped and patients young and old are dying. Emma Alberici reports.
E07
The Singapore Solution
Tue, Mar 31 2020 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
While the world shuts down, Singapore has been open for business. Learning from the SARS outbreak Singapore acted on its pandemic plan even before the new virus arrived. Eric Campbell explores the secrets to its success.
E08
Atom Hunters in Antarctica
Tue, Apr 7 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Take an epic journey across Antarctica with a crack team of scientists on a mission to unlock earth's secret history. They plan to drill hundreds of metres deep to find atoms in a bid to illuminate our climate future.
E09
The War on Afghan Women
Tue, Apr 14 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
After years of war the US government and the Taliban are making a 'peace deal'. But what does the Taliban's return to power mean for Afghan women? Will migrant Afghani workers returning home from Iran spread COVID-19?
E10
Behind Enemy Lines
Tue, Apr 21 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
New York City is the epicentre of the US fight against the COVID-19 outbreak. We follow paramedics, police, ICU nurses, overworked doctors and volunteers on the frontline despite a lack of personal protective equipment.
E11
A New Crusade
Tue, Apr 28 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A deeply divided nation in the throes of a culture war. The Polish government and Catholic Church are forming a holy alliance to denounce Western-style liberalism. Now feminists, gay people and liberals are fighting back.
E12
Revolution In The Time Of Corona
Tue, May 5 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Lebanon's young and old, rich and poor, Muslim, Christian and Druze have united to try and overthrow corrupt and incompetent leaders. They face hyperinflation, currency collapse, high unemployment, power cuts and COVID-19.
E13
The War Next Door
Tue, May 12 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A secret war on Australia's doorstep. Sally Sara reports from inside the escalating conflict in Indonesian-ruled West Papua. There have been protests, fighting, a security crackdown, hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
E14
The World's Biggest Lockdown
Tue, May 19 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
India has enforced the world's biggest lockdown. When the government ordered people to stay home, millions of migrant workers left the city for their villages so they wouldn't starve. Is the cure worse than the disease?
E15
Carry On Covid
Tue, May 26 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Coronavirus has hit Britain hard with the highest death toll in Europe and forecasts of the deepest recession in 300 years. We look at England through the lockdown and hear people's fears and hopes for life after corona.
E16
The Doctor Vs The President
Tue, Jun 2 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
She's a young doctor. He's the Russian President. He insists he's got the virus under control. She says he's lying. We follow the medic who's learned to fight without fear and the leader who's afraid of losing control.
E17
Pirates of The Caribbean
Tue, Jun 9 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The laid back, self-proclaimed 'rainbow people' of Trinidad and Tobago are dealing with an increase in illegal migration, gang crime and piracy on-sea. Andy Park visits during peak party season, the festival of Carnival.
E18
No Justice, No Peace
Tue, Jun 16 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
What began as a hashtag seven years ago has transformed into a global movement for justice for black people. Sally Sara reports on #BlackLivesMatter, the force galvanising rage and grief sparked by George Floyd's death.
E19
All The Single Men
Tue, Jun 23 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Being a single man in China is tough. Young men face pressure to provide a family heir but finding a bride isn't easy. With 30 million more males than females, many bachelors are taking desperate measures to get hitched.
E20
The Swedish Model
Tue, Jun 30 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Sweden is doing COVID differently. Its high-risk strategy allows cafes, schools and gyms to stay open, trusting citizens to do the right thing. But with over 5000 dead, many are asking - is the Swedish model working?
E21
Stolen Children
Tue, Jul 7 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Born in Timor, raised in Indonesia, a group of East Timorese stolen during wartime is now returning home. But will reunion with long lost family heal old wounds? This is a moving story about the power of blood and memory.
E22
North Korea's Secret Armada
Tue, Jul 14 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent investigates North Korea's secret fishing fleets, exposing smuggling operations which make millions for leader Kim Jong Un. As they illegally fish further out to sea are they breaking UN Sanctions?
E23
The Power of Falun Gong
Tue, Jul 21 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Falun Gong has morphed from fringe quasi-religious group into a powerful player in America's conservative media landscape. Using social media they try to get Trump re-elected so he can continue his war of words with China.
E24
Life and Liberty
Tue, Jul 28 2020 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
US Bureau Chief David Lipson travels through the northeast swing states to speak with voters about the coming presidential election. Will this fractured country survive the ultimate democratic stress test? (Season Final)
Season 2021
26 episodes
E01
Give Us The Ballot
Tue, Feb 2 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Meet the formidable women in Georgia who fought for democracy and won. They faced generations of racism and voter suppression, inspiring record black voter turnout. Now their sights are set on the American South.
E02
City of Fear
Tue, Feb 9 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Once a city of protest, now a city of fear. Bill Birtles chronicles freedom's final days as Hong Kong activists face a stark choice: should they stay and fight for democracy, risking jail or flee and campaign from abroad?
E03
Poking the Bear
Tue, Feb 16 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
He was poisoned, almost blinded, arrested and jailed but Alexei Navalny isn't cowed. He wants to force out President Putin and he's risking his life to do it. The inside story of Navalny's plan to take down the President.
E04
Women of the Revolution
Tue, Feb 23 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The women are rising. With their men jailed, Belarusian women have stepped on to the frontlines of the revolution. Inspired by a fearless great-grandmother, they won't give up till they've toppled their President.
E05
Great Wall of Japan
Tue, Mar 2 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
As Japan commemorates the 10th anniversary of the tsunami, Mark Willacy travels along the north-eastern coast to meet the fishermen and communities affected by a $17 billion project to build a new seawall running 400km.
E06
Tomorrow Will Be Better
Tue, Mar 9 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Bali's natural beauty and rich culture have made it a top holiday destination but since COVID hit the island is struggling. Locals are now questioning their dependence on tourism and the over-development it has unleashed.
E07
Troubled Waters
Tue, Mar 16 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
New Zealand's clean, green image hides a dirty truth. Polluted by intensive dairy farming, its waterways are some of the most degraded in the world. Will the Ardern government clean it up or will the Maori take control?
E08
Into the Outbreak
Tue, Mar 23 2021 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Spain has been hit hard by the pandemic, with over seventy thousand dead. Australian Lily Mayers reveals how the nation's people are struggling to survive through a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. (Midseason Final)
E09
Road to Reunion
Thu, Jun 3 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In a world TV exclusive, Sarah Ferguson reports on the fallout of a brutal US immigration policy that tore families apart. She tracks the journey of a mother seeking to reunite with her children after 4 years alone.
E10
The Sinking Sea
Thu, Jun 10 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
For millennia its waters healed the faithful. Now they're the source of conflict and tension. Eric Tlozek takes us on a spectacular journey through an ancient land to unravel the mystery of the disappearing Dead Sea.
E11
Troubled Land
Thu, Jun 17 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's called 'the British betrayal' - Great Britain promised Brexit wouldn't lead to the creation of a new border between the UK and Northern Ireland. It broke that promise. Now the province's Loyalists, welded to the union with Great Britain, are feeling abandoned.
E12
American Deepfake
Thu, Jun 24 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Is seeing believing? Not anymore. AI can now make fake video where real people say and do things they never did. Hamish Macdonald reports on deepfakes, the technology some fear will undermine civilisation as we know it.
E13
Clash of the Titans (Part 1)
Thu, Jul 1 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
As China celebrates its Communist Party's centenary, relations between the world's two superpowers are in dire straits. With special access inside China we explore the deeper forces pushing US-Sino relations to the brink.
E14
Clash of the Titans (Part 2)
Thu, Jul 8 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
There's a tech war being fought between the US and China. While the US has had the edge, China is catching up fast, investing heavily in A.I., robotics and surveillance. Will it overtake the US to dominate the 21st century?
E15
Nomadland
Thu, Jul 15 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Mongolia's nomadic herders have survived the harsh climate of the steppes for centuries. Now they're facing the new and unpredictable threat of climate change, with more extreme weather. Can these resilient people adapt?
E16
Cartel Country
Thu, Jul 22 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Tens of thousands missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico's violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top.
E17
#whatshappeninginmyanmar
Thu, Jul 29 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A military coup, a young democracy shattered. Six months on Myanmar's Gen Z is resisting, boycotting the military and its businesses. Many are in hiding, some are picking up guns. Is the country on the brink of civil war?
E18
Right to Choose
Thu, Aug 5 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The right to an abortion in the US is on the brink. Guaranteed by the Supreme Court 50 years ago, that right has been wound back by the states. With the Court about to reconsider the issue, many states could ban it overnight.
E19
Dead White Man's Clothes
Thu, Aug 12 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The dark side of the world's fashion addiction. Many of our old clothes, donated to charities, end up in rotting textile mountains in West Africa. This is a story about how our waste is creating an environmental disaster.
E20
Return of the Taliban
Thu, Aug 19 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The Taliban is back. Even before foreign forces have withdrawn from Afghanistan, the hardline Islamic force has seized control of the country. In the lead up to the takeover Yalda Hakim asks its leaders how they will rule.
E21
Dead on Arrival
Thu, Aug 26 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Since the start of the pandemic, 21 delivery workers in South Korea have died. Unions blame overwork. As demand for home deliveries explodes, the pressure on sorters and drivers is relentless. Now they're fighting back.
E22
Old King Coal
Thu, Sep 2 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
From Europe to the US, coal is under fire. Environmentalists are circling, mines closing. As coal declines how will communities fare? We go to the US & Spain to see how different regions are managing the dying days of coal.
E23
Out of Africa
Thu, Sep 9 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Europe's museums are stashed full of Africa's cultural heritage, much taken in colonial times. Some was looted, some traded. The museums say they're the rightful owners but others say the objects belong in Africa.
E24
The Cruel Sea
Thu, Sep 16 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
One Spanish yacht, a quarter of a million square kilometres of sea. Boatloads of desperate men, women and children fleeing for their lives. Can a Barcelona crew help thousands on a risky journey and steer them to safety?
E25
China's Future
Thu, Sep 23 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Three young people. Three stories of living differently in China. This generation is richer than their parents but the pressure to achieve and fit in is heavy. They're finding their own way to rebel in search of identity.
E26
Destination Mars
Thu, Sep 30 2021 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the era of New Space, billionaire Elon Musk is blazing the trail. He's building a gigantic starship to fly humans further than ever before. Sarah Ferguson reports on one man's extraordinary mission: Destination Mars.
Season 2022
29 episodes
E01
Under Taliban Rule
Thu, Feb 10 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Reporter Yalda Hakim returns to Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban took power. She finds a war-ravaged country on the brink of starvation and economic collapse, and a new terror threat on the rise.
E02
Flying Solo
Thu, Feb 17 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Flying solo in Japan. A rich and powerful nation is facing a social crisis. Millions of young singles are turning their backs on marriage and children - will it create an epidemic of loneliness? Jake Sturmer reports.
E03
Blood Cobalt
Thu, Feb 24 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The brutal cost of our green energy future. In the Democratic Republic of Congo we expose the shocking truth about the mining of cobalt, a metal essential to making the batteries in electric cars, laptops and mobile phones.
E04
Road to War
Thu, Mar 3 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The world is watching on in shock as Putin's army invades Ukraine. Two countries with a shared history spanning centuries are fighting in the streets of Ukrainian cities. We explore both sides of this dangerous conflict.
E05
Trapped In Idlib
Thu, Mar 10 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Before Ukraine, there was Syria. Now in its 11th year, this ongoing conflict is Russia's forgotten war. Syrian journalist Yaman Khatib, who fled in 2016, returns to his homeland to see how people who stayed are faring.
E06
Mapuche Rising
Thu, Mar 17 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Once the owners of vast tracts of forest and mountains, Chile's largest indigenous group the Mapuche are fighting to take back what was lost. Eric Campbell is in central Chile where a rebellion is met with military force.
E07
The Femicide Detectives
Thu, Mar 24 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Mexico, 10 women are murdered every day. In this compelling true crime episode, Sarah Ferguson goes on the road with Mexico City's femicide detectives, as they visit crimes scenes, gather evidence and solve cases.
E08
March to the Right
Thu, Apr 7 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In this month's presidential race France is swinging to the right. Candidates on the far-right are polling around 30%. The left is divided, xenophobia rife. Has the nation that champions equality and fraternity lost its way?
E09
State of Israel
Thu, Apr 14 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A rare glimpse inside Israel's ultra-Orthodox communities. Traditionally, men study the Torah while women work and look after the children. Now, some in this rule-bound world are pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable.
E10
The Magistrate vs The Mob
Thu, Apr 21 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
For years a ruthless mafia ruled Calabria through intimidation and violence. Now a magistrate is taking them on, charging hundreds in one of the biggest trials in decades. Can the Italian state beat its most powerful mafia?
E11
The Russian Resistance
Thu, Apr 28 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February, about 30,000 Russians have fled to Georgia. Reporter Eric Campbell travels to the former Soviet republic to meet the brave people opposing Putin and his war.
E12
The Marcos Makeover
Thu, May 5 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Forced into exile 36 years ago, the Marcos dynasty is poised to take power again in the Philippines. The son of dictator Ferdinand Sr, Bongbong, is much loved - but how has the family restored its tarnished reputation?
E13
Keep Hawaii Hawaiian
Thu, May 12 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's a slice of paradise for some but behind the postcard facade, native Hawaiians have a different story to tell. Reporter Matt Davis visits the Hawaiian Islands to hear from people fighting to keep their culture alive.
E14
Saudi Children Left Behind
Thu, May 19 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A troubled man. His missing father. A secretive kingdom, faraway. Like many who were abandoned by their Saudi fathers, Jared wants to meet the dad he never knew. Will this rigid society welcome the children it left behind?
E15
Stolen Spirits
Thu, May 26 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Nebraska, a grim search is underway. A community is trying to locate the graves of indigenous children who died after being taken from their tribes and sent to boarding school. A powerful story on facing a painful past.
E16
Becoming Putin
Thu, Jun 2 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
He started as a low-level spy. He ended up president for life. For two decades, former Moscow correspondent Eric Campbell has tracked Putin's rise to power, speaking with his school teacher, friends, patrons and enemies.
E17
Taking Up Alms
Thu, Aug 4 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Across Thailand a quiet revolution is underway. Hundreds of women are defying generations of Thai tradition and ordaining as Theravada Buddhist monks. Mazoe Ford follows two Thai women on a deeply spiritual quest.
E18
Taking on Trump
Thu, Aug 11 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Wyoming is the most pro-Trump state and respected Republican Liz Cheney is about to find out what that means. Kathryn Diss travels through the spectacular wilderness to talk with locals about the upcoming primary elections.
E19
Myanmar's Forgotten War
Thu, Aug 18 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In remote north western Myanmar, a civil war you've never heard of is underway. The people of the Chin State are locked in conflict with Myanmar's military machine. Matt Davis gained exclusive access to the Chin resistance.
E20
Poachers' Paradise
Thu, Aug 25 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the oceans of West Africa, it's a poachers' paradise. Foreign ships are illegally raiding these rich fishing grounds, leaving little for locals. Now the tide is turning, as activists help governments push back the boats.
E21
Duty of Care
Thu, Sep 1 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
The Vanishing River
Thu, Sep 8 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The mighty Colorado is under threat. From the Rockies' snowy peaks to Mexico, the river is a lifeline for tens of millions of people. We journey along its waters to see places and meet people changed by a drier world.
E23
No Surrender: Inside Sri Lanka's Uprising
Thu, Sep 15 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A few months ago, Sri Lankan protestors had a moment of triumph, storming the presidential palace and occupying its grounds. Now a new president is cracking down, putting many in jail. We ask, will the movement surrender?
E24
France's War on Drugs
Thu, Sep 22 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the French city of Marseille, there's a war on drugs. The police are cracking down on gangs dealing from estates in the city's north. The dealers say it's the only way to survive. We gain rare access to both sides.
E25
Return of the Rhinos
Thu, Sep 29 2022 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The mighty rhino is making a comeback. In Zimbabwe it was poached to near extinction in the 2000s. We visit a wildlife sanctuary, with an elite anti-poaching squad, to see how the animal is being brought back from the brink.
E26
Thai High
Thu, Oct 6 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
From zero tolerance to decriminalisation, Thailand's U-turn this year on cannabis laws is lighting up a billion-dollar industry. Officially it's for medicinal use but the legal grey area means 'ganja' lovers are celebrating.
E27
The Secret World of Trading Nudes
Thu, Oct 13 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In chat rooms and online forums, men are trading sexually explicit images of women, often without consent. This program investigates a flourishing sub-culture and finds one community of women is especially vulnerable.
E28
Voices from the Arctic
Thu, Oct 20 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Scandinavia, the indigenous Sami have their own parliaments. But a new wave of green development is putting pressure on Sami lands, testing the power of their voice. What lessons can Australia learn from the Sami?
E29
Fighting Back
Thu, Nov 3 2022 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Putin's recent losses on the battlefield have emboldened Ukrainians. Steve Cannane travels to the warzone in northern Ukraine to meet the people freed from Russian occupation and hear stories of trauma, courage and defiance.
Season 2023
24 episodes
E01
Japan's New Frontline
Thu, Feb 16 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
After decades of peace, Japan is now confronting the possibility of war. With concerns over a resurgent Russia, North Korea and crucially, a more powerful China in the region, Japan is embarking on its biggest military spend since the Second World War.On Foreign Correspondent, reporter James Oaten has gained unique access to the Japanese military as it fortifies its remote southwest islands with new military bases. The popular tourist destination of Ishigaki, an island that is closer to Taiwan than Tokyo will soon be home to hundreds of soldiers, stockpiles of ammunition and missiles that could one day strike mainland China. The local farming and fishing community is divided over the base, and what it means for their idyllic way of life. The population paid a high price in the dying days of World War 2, fuelling fears that they will once again become a target.
E02
Russia's Info War
Thu, Feb 23 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correspondent Eric Campbell, already on Russia's banned list of journalists, travels to Latvia to meet the others who have taken great risks to fight the propaganda war.On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the propaganda war being waged by President Putin has become more extreme. Russian citizens are being repeatedly told that Ukraine is being run by LGBT Nazis and President Vlodomyr Zelensky is a drug addict and a sexual pervert.Independent Russian journalists forced to flee the country have found sanctuary in neighbouring Latvia where they are now broadcasting factual news about the war into their former homeland via YouTube. On Foreign Correspondent, reporter Eric Campbell, also on Russia's banned list, travels to Latvia to meet the journalists who have taken great risks to fight the propaganda war.In the capital Riga, Eric interviews Latvian President Egils Levits, one of Ukraine's most ardent supporters. His government is allowing NATO troops to train in his country amidst fears Latvia too could suffer the same fate as Ukraine.
E03
Saving the Children - Philippines
Thu, Mar 2 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correpondent, Stephanie March is on the hunt with the international task force rescuing abused children.In the dead of night in Manila, police officers track down criminals responsible for delivering online child abuse to a growing number of Australian customers. This scene has played out dozens of times across the Philippines as cases hit unprecedented levels.The demand for live streaming child sexual abuse is so high in Australia that AFP officers are now based permanently in the Philippines working with an international task force investigating this distressing cyber-crime.On Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March has been given exclusive access to the Filipino police and the international task force as they hunt down the abusers and rescue the children. Parents are often involved in arranging the abuse and in a frank and confronting prison cell exchange Stephanie interviews a mother accused of facilitating the abuse of her own child for money.
E04
Secrets of the Sepik - Papua New Guinea
Thu, Mar 9 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On Australia's northern doorstep lies one of the most extraordinary places on earth – some environmentalists call it the second Amazon. The Sepik River Basin in Papua New Guinea is a natural wonder and home to rich and ancient cultures. It's a place few outsiders ever get to see. For some time, PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting has been hearing rumours about what's going on in the remote areas upriver – claims of a logging land grab, police brutality, even killings. This week on Foreign Correspondent she undertakes the journey far up the Sepik River to see for herself what's happening.In the rainforest of the Upper Sepik a community is divided. Logging operations and a proposed massive mine site bring hope of economic prosperity for some. But others fear development of the land by international companies means environmental destruction with little benefit. PNG is the world's largest exporter of tropical round logs but out of sight in the Sepik region some landowners say the logging is happening without proper consent and there are consequences for those who stand in the way. With a long history of mistrust of big corporations and the promises they make, many of the locals are angry and ready to do whatever it takes to preserve some of the most unspoilt rainforests and waterways on the planet.
E05
Cambodia's Cyber Slaves
Thu, Mar 16 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Cambodia, Chinese organised crime syndicates are running global cyber scam operations using workers who have been trafficked and enslaved in secure compounds. The syndicates have strong ties to the ruling Hun Sen regime.
E06
Somalia: A Story of Survival
Thu, Mar 23 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Somalia is one of the most dangerous places on earth. Almost two decades of conflict with the al-Qaeda backed terrorist group al-Shabaab has taken a huge toll on the country. Now Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. With the world distracted by the war in Ukraine, the crisis is escalating away from the public gaze.This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March and producer/cinematographer Matt Davis travel to Somalia where makeshift camps have become home to more than a million hungry children and their families. There, they meet mothers with babies who have walked for days without food and very little water. They hear incredible stories of courage and survival in a landscape that is unforgiving and unsafe. And they also face their own safety problems when their security team worries al-Shabaab has been told of their whereabouts.As the Somali government fights back against al-Shabaab, another threat, which they have no control over, is driving the extreme weather: climate change. In the midst of this turmoil, the Foreign Correspondent team meets extraordinary people who are determined to make their story one of survival.
E07
Waking the Red Dragon - Wales
Thu, Mar 30 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correspondent, reporter Nick Dole explores the new push for Independence in Wales and meets the leaders campaigning to break up with Britain.When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, Brexit supporters predicted the UK would boom. Three years later and the nation is at breaking point with high inflation, an energy crisis and concerns about a recession fuelling a healthy dose of Brexit regret. No more so than in Wales where something remarkable is happening.The Welsh are finding their voice, and the famous red dragon is awakening.This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Nick Dole explores the new push for Independence and meets the leaders of the movement campaigning for Wales to break up with Britain.He travels to the city of Wrexham where the locals are riding high on a wave of pride as their football team gains global recognition thanks to the popular tv streaming show Welcome to Wrexham. The club was recently bought by Hollywood celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney – and it's put Wrexham on the map. But as well as a growing confidence in their team for some there's also an increasing belief that Wales can achieve much more as an independent nation, away from the rule of Westminster.With a major push now on to preserve the Welsh language one question is getting louder: A fyddai cymru yn well ei byd ar ei phen ei hun? (Would Wales be better off on its own?)
E08
The Last Resort - Fiji
Thu, Apr 6 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Check shirts in tow, this week on Foreign Correspondent special guest reporter Craig Reucassel travels across the islands of Fiji to see how the nation is combatting climate change.With tourism back and booming, Fiji is again a number one destination for travelers seeking an island paradise experience. And while water lapping on the shoreline might make for an Instagram worthy picture, for the people of Fiji, it presents a threat to their way of life. With his trademark style, Craig goes off the tourist track and shows what living with climate change actually means for those who don't have the luxury of arguing about it. More than 800 villages are now on a government climate risk list – some communities have already been moved to higher ground but others are resisting. And many are asking: who caused the problem and who should pay to fix it?
E09
Bahrain: The Middle East's Party Capital
Thu, Apr 13 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain is reinventing itself as a liberal oasis and its capital Manama has become the place to party for young Saudis who can do things that are forbidden in their own country.
E10
Florida: The War on Woke
Thu, Apr 20 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The US State of Florida has become the centre of America's culture wars as Governor Ron DeSantis pursues a right-wing agenda focused on gender and race laws which some hope will take him all the way to the White House.
E11
The Defectors - North Korea
Thu, Apr 27 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Naomi Selvaratnam meets some of the North Korean women who have fled to South Korea, as they struggle to fit in.They're the refugees from North Korea's hermit kingdom who overcome huge odds to escape to a new life in South Korea. Most of them are women and the journey they undertake is a perilous one. Many are influenced to leave after viewing smuggled South Korean TV dramas which showcase a life of freedom and opportunity. But the reality is often very different. Instead of finding happiness they are overcome with loneliness and isolation. On arrival, often after harrowing experiences at the hands of human traffickers, they are placed in a training school and taught how to live in the modern world, South Korean style. Once on the outside, their accent, clothing and behaviour often make them stand out, and they struggle to assimilate, some often barely surviving.Those who do escape are known as defectors and they rarely speak out publicly. This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Naomi Selvaratnam meets some of the North Korean women who are trying to make new lives for themselves in South Korea and asks them: Has their escape been worth it?
E12
The Fentanyl Kings - Mexico
Thu, May 4 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Fentanyl is the main source of drug overdoses in the United States, supplied by the infamous Mexican Sinaloa cartel. The drug is making a fortune for the cartel, we go inside to see the luxurious lifestyle.
E13
Surviving ISIS
Thu, Jul 27 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's almost a decade since ISIS forces swept through Iraq and Syria but the legacy of their brutal caliphate remains. The Yazidis of northern Iraq were slaughtered and enslaved by ISIS. Today the search continues for the missing Yazidis who have still not returned home.
E14
Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia's stolen antiquities
Thu, Aug 3 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's been called the biggest art theft in history – thousands of statues stolen from temples across Cambodia and sold to private collectors and international museums, including here in Australia. Now a team of art sleuths, on behalf of the Cambodian Government, are on a mission to bring home the country's cultural heritage.In this episode of Foreign Correspondent, the inside story of how Cambodia's stolen antiquities are being tracked and returned in a global treasure hunt. South-East Asia correspondent Mazoe Ford travels with the restitution team as they journey across the country and over borders to identify, trace and reclaim Cambodia's missing treasures.
E15
Bollywood: The Politics Behind the Scenes
Thu, Aug 10 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In India the Modi Government is being accused of waging a war on Bollywood, the country's most powerful cultural force. Filmmakers who criticise the government or resist pressure to produce pro-Hindu content face a backlash.
E16
Secret Interviews: Inside Iran's resistance
Thu, Aug 17 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Almost a year since widespread protests over women's rights erupted on the streets of Iran, young Iranians who are still defying the country's repressive regime, talk about the price they are prepared to pay for freedom.
E17
Canada on Fire
Thu, Aug 24 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Canada Australian firefighters join an international team in a desperate battle to help combat the nation's worst forest fires in recorded history. An area of 32 million acres has been scorched in this climate catastrophe.
E18
Citizens of the Reich - Germany
Thu, Aug 31 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Germany an anti-State 'sovereign citizens' group is increasingly engaged in acts of terrorism. Intelligence authorities are worried about its connections with a right-wing extremist party gaining popularity in the polls.
E19
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief and Texas Politics
Thu, Sep 7 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A year after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas the community is still traumatised. They're angry about the inadequate police response on the day and they're determined to change the law on the sale of deadly assault rifles.
E20
Barbados: Who Should Pay?
Thu, Sep 14 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Barbados was the first British slave society in the Caribbean. Now, two years after becoming a republic, there is a growing demand for institutions and the descendants of slave owners to make amends for the sins of the past.
E21
LeBron's Hometown Hope
Thu, Sep 21 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E22
Syria - Addicted to Captagon
Thu, Sep 28 2023 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A billion-dollar illegal drug trade is funding the Syrian regime under President Bashar al-Assad. Insiders reveal details of the drug operations and the links to members of the president's family and the Syrian Armed Forces.
E23
Saving Argentina
Thu, Oct 5 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Argentina is on its knees with inflation rates over 100 percent and 40 percent of the population living in poverty. There's hope that mining the country's vast supply of the rare metal lithium could solve the current crisis.
E24
Before the War - Israel
Thu, Oct 12 2023 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Before the war, 2023 had been the deadliest year for Jews and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 15 years. This program looks at the rising tensions between the two before the brutal terror attack by Hamas.
Season 2024
24 episodes
E01
Faking It - UK
Thu, Feb 29 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Fake fashion is big business. From Gucci to Balenciaga, replica brands are everywhere. The trade is run by crime syndicates implicated in human trafficking and even terrorism. This story goes inside the counterfeit industry.
E02
Moving A Megacity - Indonesia
Thu, Mar 7 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Indonesia has embarked on a radical plan to relocate its congested and sinking capital Jakarta to the jungles of Borneo. A new $45 billion mega city is currently being built but critics say it's too expensive and too remote.
E03
After October 7 - Israel
Thu, Mar 14 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The horrific events of October 7 and its aftermath have dramatically changed the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. With widespread loss of life and devastation, suspicion and revenge are boiling over and fear is everywhere.
E04
Sikhs, Spies and Murder - India
Thu, Mar 21 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Punjab, northern India, the Sikh separatist movement is fighting to create its own independent Khalistan nation. Separatist leaders have accused the Modi government of targeting Sikhs around the world including Australia.
E05
The One Euro House Dream - Italy
Thu, Mar 28 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Italy's population is ageing and with towns dying out, residents in Sicily have undertaken a grand social experiment. They're selling abandoned houses to newcomers for just one euro in a bid to breathe new life into old towns.
E06
A Crack in the Mountain - Vietnam
Thu, Apr 4 2024 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the jungle of central Vietnam lies Son Doong, a magnificent underground cave passage, the largest in the world. Undisturbed for millions of years, its future has been placed in doubt with plans to make it a tourist mecca.
E07
Time Bomb - The Pacific
Thu, Apr 11 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Eighty years since Japan and the Allied forces waged a battle at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islanders are still paying the price with thousands of unexploded devices left behind and the threat of leaking oil from rusting warships.
E08
Sumo Sisters - Japan
Thu, Apr 18 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Japan the ancient sport of sumo is wrestling with how to accept women competitors on an equal footing, challenging deeply held traditions. We meet the women who are trying to modernise attitudes in a sport they love.
E09
Britain's Drug Gangs
Thu, Apr 25 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The UK illicit drug market is worth an estimated 9.4 billion pounds a year. In small towns in the north of England, drugs are being warehoused and sold by criminals who make large sums of money and lead enviable lifestyles.
E10
South Korea's Sham Adoptions
Thu, May 2 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the decades since the Korean war, over 200,000 children have been adopted to families worldwide. Now as adults, adoptees are demanding investigations into falsified documents, duplicate identities and even stolen children.
E11
Reporting For Duty - Ukraine
Thu, May 9 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Across Ukraine increasing numbers of women are running newsrooms and reporting the war from the frontline. While male colleagues have joined the fight, women are working hard to ensure isolated communities are kept informed.
E12
America's Broken Borders
Thu, May 16 2024 10:30 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Immigration has become a defining issue in this year's US Presidential Election race. In Texas, the Republican Governor has politicised the problem by sending busloads of immigrants to Democrat cities like New York
E13
America Through Australian Eyes
Thu, Jul 18 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the US political tension and deep division are causing concern for thousands of Australians who now call America home. Some are horrified by the state of affairs and are planning to leave. Others hail Donald Trump a hero.
E14
The Arctic Chill - Russia / Norway
Thu, Jul 25 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the Arctic, tensions between Russia and NATO nations are escalating in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard, one of the most geostrategic places on the planet. Russia is being accused of provocation and sabotage.
E15
Hong Kong Now
Thu, Aug 1 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
With Hong Kong's protest movement effectively silenced and with activists either fleeing or ending up in jail, the city is being remade. More than 100,000 people have left and the new arrivals are coming from mainland China.
E16
Bad Monks
Thu, Aug 8 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Corruption, drug use and fraud are not what you expect from Thailand's Buddhist monks. A series of scandals is engulfing the religion. Go on patrol with the monk police and undercover agents trying to bring them into line.
E17
Paradise in Flames - New Caledonia
Thu, Aug 15 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In the tourist mecca of New Caledonia tensions between the French government and the indigenous Kanak people have resulted in violent uprisings. The push for independence has created ongoing deep divisions in the country.
E18
The Real Cost of a Rose - The Netherlands
Thu, Aug 22 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A bouquet of flowers is the go-to gift for many occasions, but the world is paying a high price for out of season blooms. Go behind the scenes of the billion-dollar flower trade to reveal the true cost of the flowers you buy.
E19
Kidnapped - West Africa
Thu, Aug 29 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
40 min
Australian doctor Ken Elliott tells his extraordinary story of being held captive in the Saharan desert by Al Qaeda terrorists for more than 7 years. Dr Elliott was 81 when he was kidnapped with his wife from Burkina Faso.
E20
El Salvador's Mega Prison
Thu, Sep 5 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
To combat its reputation as the most dangerous country in the world El Salvador has declared war on its gangs and built a mega prison capable of housing up to 40,000 inmates. Critics call it a 'black hole of human rights'.
E21
Eat Pray Build - Bali
Thu, Sep 12 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Bali is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, but the demand from holidaymakers and now digital nomads is turning paradise into a construction zone. Will cashed up foreign developers change the island forever?
E22
The Ardern Aftermath - New Zealand
Thu, Sep 19 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Across New Zealand tensions are high with Maori protestors warning the country is facing a watershed moment on race relations. The protestors are angry about the rollback of Maori programs by the conservative government.
E23
South Africa's Copper Crimewave
Thu, Sep 26 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Copper theft is a billion-dollar crime that's causing chaos in South Africa. Across the country police and armed contractors are waging war on the criminals who are cashing in on one of the world's most sought-after metals.
E24
Kamala's Battleground - USA
Thu, Oct 3 2024 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
The US state of Michigan is one of a handful of battleground states that will determine who will be the next American president. Will Kamala Harris' late injection into the race give the Democrats the boost they need to win?
Season 2025
23 episodes
E01
More Than A Kiss
Tue, Feb 18 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It was the kiss that shocked the world and triggered Spain's "Me Too" moment. As the Spanish national team claimed football's ultimate prize, the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, in Sydney, they shared their triumph with a global TV audience of over 200 million people. But their joy was short lived. Within minutes of winning, the head of Spanish football, Luis Rubiales, kissed star striker Jenni Hermoso on the lips. Rubiales would eventually be charged with sexual assault and coercion, and his trial is now underway in Madrid.But Rubiales' behaviour was not an isolated incident. In this episode of Foreign Correspondent former players and staff reveal how they have endured a culture of toxic misogyny for years. The ABC's Europe Correspondent Kathryn Diss talks to the football stars who were there on the night, including two-time Ballon d'or winner Alexia Putellas and up and coming Arsenal star Laia Codina. They describe their world cup victory as "bittersweet". With all eyes now on the Rubiales trial the players are hoping this day of reckoning will forever change the appalling way women have been treated in the sport they love.
E02
Medics on the Frontline - Ukraine
Tue, Feb 25 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Three years of war in Ukraine has taken its toll. On the frontline and in makeshift hospitals volunteer medics work tirelessly in difficult and dangerous situations to save and repair the lives of soldiers wounded in combat.
E03
Sri Lanka: Bitter Brew
Tue, Mar 4 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Tea is the second most consumed drink in the world after water and chances are the tea in Australian cupboards comes from Sri Lanka. Consumers of the more popular brands are assured by guarantees clearly marked on the packaging that the tea they are buying is ethically and sustainably produced. But are these guarantees accurate?Foreign Correspondent goes deep into the tea fields of Sri Lanka to investigate the "ethical" promises made by the most famous brands of tea. Reporter Naomi Selvaratnam visits the estates to investigate the living and working conditions approved by independent certification schemes and reveals how the system is failing both Sri Lankan tea workers and consumers.
E04
India: The Moonshine State
Tue, Mar 11 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Imagine a state where all alcohol is banned, without exception. Where you would go to jail for months for possessing a single drop. Welcome to Bihar, India where the world's largest "prohibition experiment" is taking place. Booze has been banned in the state for the past decade – a move designed to curb high rates of domestic violence. But the ban has driven the production of alcohol underground resulting in a thriving bootleg industry with deadly consequences. On Foreign Correspondent the ABC's South Asia Bureau Chief Meghna Bali travels to Bihar where she goes on patrol with the bootleg police in rugged rural terrain as they hunt for illegal liquor networks. She secretly meets the bootleggers and smugglers who risk lengthy jail terms if they are caught selling alcohol. And she witnesses the devastating impact poisonous "alcohol" is having in some communities where death and disability are the result of a prohibited, unregulated industry.
E05
Dynasties at War: The Marcos and Duterte family feud for control of the Philippines
Tue, Mar 18 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A spectacular falling out between the Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his deputy Sara Duterte has unleashed a war between two of the country's most powerful political dynasties. The Marcos/Duterte feud has led to jaw dropping plot twists worthy of a political thriller with claims of drug addiction, corruption and the hiring of a hitman. The arrest of Sara's father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, for crimes against humanity, is also linked to the fallout with the President. On Foreign Correspondent Natashya Gutierrez reports on how this feud has escalated so dramatically. With the two clans at war she travels to the family fiefdoms in Ilocos Norte and Davao City to see how deeply rooted and damaging these political dynasties are to the country.
E06
A Majestic Menace
Tue, Apr 1 2025 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Botswana has more elephants than any other country on the planet. But what's been hailed as a great conservation success story has become a deadly problem. While they have turbo charged photo tourism, in some parts of the country there are two elephants for every human and stories of elephants causing havoc, destroying crops and even killing people is fuelling anger towards these majestic animals. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March travels across the stunning Botswana landscape to see who is benefiting and who is paying the price for this conservation triumph.
E07
After the Fires
Tue, Apr 8 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Australians know bushfires all too well. But no Australian city has experienced the scale of the urban wildfire that reduced large parts of LA to ash. More than 150 square kilometers of homes and bushland were destroyed in the worst fires in southern California's history, US correspondent Barbara Miller was dispatched to the fires as they took hold. Now, three months later, she reports on the aftermath and reconnects with the people she met while the flames burned. As fire experts predict the severity of the wildfires will only get worse, locals who have lost everything are weighing up whether they can risk going through it all again.
E08
Inside the New Syria: Renewal and Revenge after Assad's fall.
Tue, Apr 15 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
When a former Al Qaeda commander and his allies swept the brutal Assad regime from power with stunning speed, it caught the world by surprise. There was jubilation over the fall of the Syrian dictator, but huge questions about what comes next. Ongoing outbreaks of violence between those allied to the new government and groups still loyal to Assad have only added to the uncertainty. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March travels to Syria on a journey that would have been unthinkable only a few short months ago. She sees first-hand the "new" Syria. With an economy in ruins largely due to imposed sanctions, she meets the people who are trying to recover from decades of Assad's cruel dictatorship as well as those who have the most to lose if actions of revenge and retribution are allowed to continue.
E09
TASTING TOKYO: Inside the kitchens of the world's foodie capital
Tue, Apr 22 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Australian tourists are visiting Japan in record numbers, with one million travelers expected to arrive this year. In Tokyo visitors are increasingly attracted by the nation's food – the city has become the number one destination for food lovers with more Michelin star restaurants than its nearest rival Paris. On Foreign Correspondent the ABC's north Asia correspondent James Oaten sets out to discover what's driving this foodie obsession. He meets a world expert on tuna, one of the country's best sushi chefs and a 96-year-old eel master to see first-hand what it takes to be the best. From the onigiri lunch shops to the world's best ramen restaurant James goes in search of the secret to Japan's culinary success.
E10
THE BODY HUNTERS: Inside Columbia's real life CSI squad
Tue, Apr 29 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
After more than half a century of armed conflict in Colombia more than a hundred thousand people are still missing, presumed dead. Decades of violence between leftist guerillas and right-wing paramilitary groups left large parts of the country lawless. The brutality of the notorious drug cartels only made the violence worse. Now the Colombian government has made it it's mission to find the bodies of the missing. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Natashya Gutierrez embeds with the CSI squad determined to find closure for the loved ones left behind. She visits the dig sites where searches are underway and meets the criminal forensic team using new technology to build replica images from skeletal remains. Natashya also talks to a former paramilitary soldier, forcibly recruited as a teenager, who admits his involvement in assassinations and murders.
E11
Greenland - Hot Property
Tue, May 6 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
It's the world's largest island and one of the most remote places on earth. And now the most famous global property developer wants to buy it. The Danish territory of Greenland has become a sought-after piece of real estate and US President Donald Trump has declared that one way or another America is going to own it. On Foreign Correspondent the ABC's North America Correspondent Lauren Day travels to the icy territory to find out why it's become such hot property. It's strategic location and abundance of rare minerals is driving US interest, but Denmark is adamant Greenland is not for sale. While most Greenlanders ultimately want to be independent, they know they can't financially go it alone for now. But relations with their colonial ruler are far from ideal and some are wondering if this is the moment to strike a deal of their own.
E12
Making America Healthy Again?
Tue, Jul 15 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
A wellness revolution has captured the White House. Donald Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples reveals the inside story behind the Make America Healthy Again movement and the role she played in uniting Robert F Kennedy Jr and Trump.
E13
Russia's Shadow
Tue, Jul 22 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On Russia's southern flank, the former Soviet republic of Georgia is fighting for its very existence as a democracy. Until recently it was a darling of the West, on a fast track to EU membership, but then something dramatically changed. The pro-EU government did an extraordinary U-turn. It stands accused of winning re-election in a disputed ballot, crushing civil society, jailing dissenters and passing a raft of draconian laws eerily similar to those on the books in Russia. So what is going on? Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March travels to the nation wedged between Russia and Europe on the edge of the Black Sea to witness a democracy crumbling in real time. The atmosphere is tense with an ongoing crackdown and cyber surveillance. She meets protestors and opposition figures who believe Russia is pulling the strings, while senior government figures claim there's a dark western backed conspiracy designed to push Georgia into war with Russia.
E14
Mexico's Cartel Crackdown
Tue, Jul 29 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On the Mexican border 10,000 troops have been deployed to stop the traffic of the deadly drug fentanyl. The show of force by Mexico follows the threat of crippling US tariffs, but can the crackdown stop the drug cartels?
E15
Japan's Last Survivors: Remembering Hiroshima 80 years on
Tue, Aug 5 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped for the first time in an act of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was one of the final and most famous acts of World War II following Japan's refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds and enormous civilian casualties. Eighty years later only a few Japanese civilian survivors remain. On Foreign Correspondent North Asia correspondent James Oaten meets the people who still have clear memories of those final months of World War II. Some survived the firebombing of Tokyo which killed 100,000 civilians, others remember the US invasion of Okinawa where another 150,000 civilians perished. And some are the last living survivors of Hiroshima. These last survivors are angry Japan, even today, still refuses to accept responsibility for the needless harm it caused its own people by not surrendering sooner. They know their time is running out and they want their country to confront its past before it's too late.
E16
Children of the Taliban
Tue, Aug 12 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Four years since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, ABC's Foreign Correspondent looks at the lives of children living under Taliban rule.This is a generation whose entire lives have been upended and who are being forced to grow up quickly to survive. With rare access to the children of high-ranking Taliban members, this film captures the daily life of two boys who talk openly about their desire to be Mujahid fighters and who are already involved in standing guard for their fathers.By contrast the film also documents the much tougher lives of two girls who have both lost their fathers to war and who spend their days working to support their families. They are among the hundreds of thousands of children in the country who do this. The difference between the lives of the girls and boys in this film is stark but they have one thing in common: they still have a glimmer of hope that one day life for the children of Afghanistan will be brighter.
E17
Spain's Toxic Tourism
Tue, Aug 19 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Spain protests against mass tourism have erupted across the nation. Angry locals demand action to stop hordes of tourists from occupying their cities. Tourism is being blamed for a housing crisis that's forcing locals out.
E18
Bangladesh 2.0
Tue, Aug 26 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
This week on Foreign Correspondent, can you remake a country?One year ago, student protestors led an uprising in Bangladesh to overthrow a brutal dictator. Sheikh Hasina ruled for 15 years by murdering and jailing political rivals and ruthlessly cracking down on dissent. She fled the country after a violent crackdown on protesters where 1,400 people were killed. Now the student leaders have emerged as a new political force as Bangladesh prepares to hold its first free and fair elections in almost two decades.On Foreign Correspondent reporter Ellie Grounds travels to the capital Dhaka where election season has begun in earnest. She meets students who put everything on the line to overthrow Hasina and who are determined to remake Bangladesh from a dictatorship to a democracy. But their path won't be easy – established political parties who had effectively been sidelined during Hasina's reign are coming back strong. Conservative religious groups suppressed under the Hasina regime have also re-emerged, and are loudly protesting plans for progressive reforms, in particular changes that would give equal rights to women. The dream for the ‘new Bangladesh' is radical, but is it realistic?
E19
Trump's America Through Australian Eyes
Tue, Sep 2 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Donald Trump's second term as president has taken off with breathtaking speed. Over several drama filled months he's pursued his agenda, implementing radical changes in foreign policy, immigration enforcement and the economy. He's left his opponents struggling to keep up. In the US around a hundred thousand Australians call America home and they're not immune to the new era of Trump rule. In the lead up to last year's Presidential election Foreign Correspondent spoke to a number of those Australians about their views on America's future. It was Foreign Correspondent's most watched story of the year. Given how momentous these first months have been, we've decided to find out how people are feeling now. Along with some we talked to last time, we've met others along the way to explore how they feel about living in Trump's America. From New York to Texas, from the sidelines of amateur AFL games to picnics in Philly and Aussie get togethers in Central Park to rodeo training grounds, everyone has a view.
E20
China's Abandoned Daughters
Tue, Sep 9 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Tuesday's Foreign Correspondent, a film by Channel News Asia, looks at the legacy of China's strict one-child policy and the unwanted girls given away to foster families.In regional provinces in China tens of thousands of women are looking for their families. They are the legacy of China's strict one-child policy aimed at controlling population growth. They were abandoned by their parents who wanted their only child to be a son. Many of these unwanted girls were given away to foster families. But their foster parents weren't acting out of kindness. Instead, they had a clear goal: one day the girls were to marry their sons.On Foreign Correspondent, a film by Channel News Asia captures the stories of these women who are now trying to reclaim their lives. Many have struggled due to lack of education and social stigma and have never adjusted to being married to their foster brothers. As they search for clues to their past, DNA programs are helping them reunite with their biological families.
E21
Not Welcome - Northern Ireland
Tue, Sep 16 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Throughout the northern summer anti-immigration protests have taken place across the United Kingdom. But while angry crowds have scuffled with police outside hotels housing asylum seekers, the most shocking confrontations have occurred in Northern Ireland. It's the least diverse region of the UK and racial hate crime is at record levels. This week Foreign Correspondent reporter Barbara Miller travels to the town of Ballymena where some locals are waging a war on migrants, attacking their homes and cars and running them out of town. Ballymena is no stranger to violence. During the conflict between the Protestants and the Catholics known as the Troubles, Ballymena saw violent attacks on Catholic homes, schools and churches. Now attention has turned to the Roma community who have moved there in large numbers. In Ballymena there's speculation paramilitary groups active during the Troubles are behind the mob violence as hit lists of migrants' addresses circulate throughout the community.
E22
Gaza's Children of War
Tue, Sep 23 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
For Gaza's one million children growing up isn't guaranteed. For almost two years more than 18,000 kids have been killed as Israel wages war to destroy Hamas. An intimate look at the toll the war is taking on Gaza's littlest.
E23
Israel v Iran: Unfinished Business
Tue, Sep 30 2025 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
In Iran's capital Tehran an uneasy calm has returned to the streets. For 12 days in June the world held its breath as Israel and Iran - two mortal enemies - traded blows. Israel's main targets were Iran's nuclear facilities, key Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists. The US joined in, dropping bunker bombs on Iran's underground nuclear facilities. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Jonathan Miller has been granted rare access to the Islamic Republic to find out whether Israel, the region and the world is any safer. He visits the places bombed by the Israelis and meets family members and neighbours of those killed in the attacks. The accuracy of Israel's targets inside Iran were evidence of what Iranian authorities called "unprecedented infiltration" by the Israelis. Now the regime is relentlessly hunting for spies with trials and executions being fast tracked. The Foreign Ministry spokesman tells Jonathan the executions are justifiable because "no nation allows betrayal." Jonathan also travels to Israel where a former senior Mossad chief explains how Israel's intelligence operates on the ground in Iran. It's not deep cover agents, he says, but "expendable" people who are willing to work for money. What becomes clear as Jonathan travels between the two nations is that no-one believes this war is over.
Season 2026
11 episodes
E01
NATO Under Attack
Tue, Feb 24 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent returns for 2026 with an episode from Denmark as NATO countries face their biggest security crisis since World War II.For months the ABC's Europe correspondent Bridget Rollason has been tracking events in Denmark as it navigates security concerns over a "hybrid war" with Russia while at the same time dealing with the shocking threats made by one of its key allies – the United States.For much of 2025 NATO member states experienced a wave of "hybrid" attacks creating havoc and fear, which have been pinned on Russia. NATO nations warned this was no Cold War, and that citizens should brace for conflict with Russia. Then, Donald Trump shook the alliance to its core with his renewed and aggressive demand for the Danish territory of Greenland, tearing up the rule book that has kept the alliance together. In this report Bridget has embedded with NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea where Russian submarines are active, visited army training camps in Denmark at a time when all women must register for possible combat when they turn 18 and spoken to high level interviewees in the defence and intelligence world to capture this profoundly consequential moment in history.
E02
Switzerland's Crumbling Giants
Tue, Mar 3 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Switzerland's iconic mountains are truly one of the wonders of the world, famous for their dramatic snow-capped peaks. But the Swiss Alps are under threat, and in turn putting centuries old villages below them in grave danger.The Alps are warming at twice the global average, placing them on Europe's frontline of climate change. Dozens of towns have been damaged, and one completely destroyed in catastrophic landslides. Foreign Correspondent travels through the Alps and up the glaciers with reporter Naomi Selvaratnam to see the problem first hand. The growing danger and mounting costs are producing climate refugees in one of the richest nations on earth. The question now for Swiss authorities is who gets to stay in the mountains, and at what cost.
E03
Prabowo Power - Indonesia
Tue, Mar 10 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent looks to Indonesia and the first year of President Prabowo Subianto in power.A revolution is taking place in a key Australian ally and neighbour. Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has clocked up his first year in power and with incredible speed, he's nationalising and militarising his nation's economy to deliver on his promise of a self-reliant future for his nation.On Foreign Correspondent Indonesia reporter Tim Swanston reports on the scale and cost of Prabowo's ambitious program. But there are some who are warning that in the process Indonesia is losing the democratic freedoms that were hard fought with the fall of the corrupt dictatorship of the former President Suharto.
E04
Trump's Venezuelan Oil Grab
Tue, Mar 17 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent journalist Sandra Gathmann has teamed up with a Venezuelan crew to document how Venezuelans are reacting to the US is effectively running their economy.When US President Donald Trump sent American troops to capture Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, it quickly became clear the country's vast oil reserves were a major part of the strategy. Venezuela used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but decades of mismanagement damaged its oil industry and left most of the population living in poverty.Now the US is effectively running the Venezuelan economy and is focused on reviving the country's oil industry. But who will be the beneficiaries?On Foreign Correspondent, London-based Venezuelan journalist Sandra Gathmann has teamed up with a local Venezuelan crew to document how Venezuelans are reacting to these unprecedented events. Sandra also examines whether Donald Trump can deliver on his oil promise, who stands to gain, and what role Venezuela will play at a time of global oil turmoil.
E05
Vanishing Greece
Tue, Mar 24 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Foreign Correspondent this week heads to Greece for a rather concerning problem...Greece is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations – more than 30 million visitors travel there every year. But extraordinarily, Greece itself is in danger of running out of Greeks. The population is in freefall with predictions it will drop by twenty percent by 2050.On Foreign Correspondent reporter Rhiannon Shine travels to the birthplace of her grandparents to see the problem first hand. Right across the country, ghost towns are becoming all too common. There are far more deaths than births, young people have left in droves and migration is deeply unpopular. If modern Greece can't solve its population problem, it's at risk of joining its ancient ancestors as a living museum.
E06
Celtic Waves - Ireland
Tue, Mar 31 2026 9:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
When you think of big wave surfing, Hawaii, Portugal or Tahiti might come to mind. Very few would name Ireland as one of the world's hottest surfing destinations, let alone the sleepy seaside town of Mullaghmore. But in the depths of the Irish winter adventurous surfers from around the globe descend on this little village, braving the freezing North Atlantic swells to take on waves as big as multi-story buildings.Foreign Correspondent's Sean Murphy is on a quest to capture the breathtaking and unique world of Irish surfing. There he explores how Ireland's identity is being reimagined through the rise of surf culture where the only religion that matters is sea and the waves have to be seen to be believed.
E07
The Other Disruptor - USA
Tue, Apr 7 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
When a young Muslim American who called himself a democratic socialist was elected Mayor of New York City the world took notice. Zohran Mamdani is America's newest political star with an agenda to make his city affordable again.
E08
Cartel Paradise - Fiji (Part 1)
Tue, Apr 14 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Fiji is ground zero in the Pacific's drug crisis. Huge quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine are being trafficked through Fiji and on to Australia, fuelling a wave of addiction and corruption in the Fijian community.
E09
Cartel Paradise - Narco Islands (Part 2)
Tue, Apr 21 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
45 min
From South America to the Solomon Islands, Foreign Correspondent reveals the tactics used by cartels to send eye-watering quantities of drugs across the Pacific. We go on the hunt for the "narco subs" used by drug lords.
E10
Saudi Arabia's Reality Check
Tue, Apr 28 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
On Foreign Correspondent Matthew Doran reports that Saudi Arabia's plans for the future have been thrown into jeopardy by war.When the US and Israel decided to wage war against Iran, the Gulf States were caught unawares. As Iran launched unprecedented attacks on its neighbours, a period of regional stability and economic security came to an end. For Saudi Arabia, currently undergoing a major economic and social transformation, the war could not have come at a worse time.On Foreign Correspondent, the ABC's Middle East reporter Matthew Doran has travelled to the Kingdom to see first-hand how Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is remaking itself. His plan is called Vision 2030 — a multi-trillion-dollar agenda to transform the Kingdom from a petrostate into an international powerhouse for tourism, technology, culture and trade.Matthew made his first visit to the country before the war. He returned during an uneasy ceasefire to see whether Saudi Arabia's grand plans for the future have been thrown into jeopardy.
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Tue, May 5 2026 10:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Cast
George Negus
as Host