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Assignment - What Happened to the Kurdish Spring
For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq be...
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Assignment - Unknown Neighbours
Why are the British so scared of Islam? When the head of the Anglican church, Dr Rowan...
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Assignment - Three Strike Lifers
A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes'...
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Assignment - The Rich in Retreat
Just one year ago Wall Street bankers enjoyed widespread regard, even veneration, in...
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Assignment - The Rich in Retreat
In a programme first broadcast in April, Ed Butler reports from New York on how the of...
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Assignment - The Pardon Game
The Afghan drugs mafia is rich, powerful and entrenched, with connections running into...
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Assignment - The Pakistan Connection
The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani...
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Assignment - The Opus Dei enigma
It's widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world.
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Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders
Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy...
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Assignment - The Mystery of the Arctic Sea
It's straight out of the pages of a thriller novel: a cargo ship, lost without trace;...
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Assignment - The internet chatroom murder
This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet.
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Assignment - The Indignants of Greece
As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler to for...
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Assignment - the French Burqa Ban
With several European countries now considering banning face veils in public places,...
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Assignment - The Congo Connection
In Assignment Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and Germany are a...
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Assignment - The Bad Samaritan
Until the end of last year Bernard Madoff was a highly respected financial guru and to...
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Assignment - Ten Days in Haiti
On 12th January a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in the Caribbean. As many as people...
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Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side
American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to...
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Assignment - Syrian Stories
Divided by conflict. The human stories behind Syria's uprising. Owen Bennett Jones for...
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Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce
Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and...
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Assignment - Stalin's Toxic Legacy
Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its still on...
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Assignment - Speaking up in Saudi Arabia
In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and...
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Assignment - Somaliland - Going it Alone
It鈥檚 twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains...
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Assignment - Shaken Babies
Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results...
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Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
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Assignment - Senegal's Schoolboy Beggars
Angus Crawford reports from Senegal for Assignment on what the government there is to...
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Assignment - S Korea computer addiction
Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side.
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Assignment - Rough justice in Japan
We report on a miscarriage of justice in Japan - a case which has opened a debate how...
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Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building...
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Assignment - Romania Gold Rush
Tessa Dunlop travels to Romania to investigate why a proposed open-cast gold mine, be...
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Assignment - Return to Nablus
Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada 鈥� or uprising 鈥� was raging in the...
