Featuring news programmes on current issues around the world. Natalia Antelava investigates the growing trade in girls in India. Show more

News on issues around the world. An investigation uncovers evidence of Burundi government-sponsored torture and killings designed to silence dissent. Show more

With a general election just weeks away, revelations of government bungling, corporate greed and corruption have thrust water to the forefront of Australia's political debate.

For our season on Crossing Divides, Mike Wendling meets far-right and far-left activists in Portland, Oregon. Show more

A decade after returning from Iraq, Our World meets a group of former US soldiers still struggling to adjust to life back home. Show more

Chris Rogers uncovers appalling conditions that adults and young people with disabilities and HIV are still suffering in Romania's orphanages. Show more

The word 'sharia' conjures up images of draconian punishments under strict Islamic regimes. The reality of sharia in Britain is very different. Show more

Ten years ago, Allan Little reported on the Sierra Leone civil war and the British military intervention that stopped it. He returns to look at the story behind that intervention. Show more

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

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, James Robbins reports from South Africa, a country transformed by the end of white minority rule and racial segregation. Show more

Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen reports from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo, to trace the minerals that make it into global electronics goods and mobile phones. Show more

We are living through one of the biggest extinction eras the planet has ever witnessed. Some scientists are beginning to argue for intervention in the natural order in new ways. Show more

A year since Zanu-PF and Movement for Democratic Change formed a unity government, Sue Lloyd-Roberts returns to Zimbabwe to see if power-sharing has benefited ordinary Zimbabweans. Show more

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

News on current issues. Cuba is undergoing major economic change, and people can now set up businesses for the first time. Michael Voss reports. Show more

A former guard at Guantanamo Bay comes face-to-face with two of his ex-prisoners who spent more than two years at the world's most notorious prison. Show more

Sue Lloyd Roberts travels to the Korean peninsula for a rare glimpse inside one of the last remaining communist states in the world. Show more

Tim Whewell has been to Uganda to investigate why there are now more reports of ritual killings. He hears some astonishingly frank confessions from those directly involved. Show more

Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. Security Correspondent Gordon Corera hears how MI5 went from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists. Show more

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