Season 8
20 episodes · Apr 13, 2007
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- S8E1
Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
Apr 13, 2007Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.
- S8E2
Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover
Apr 20, 2007Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.
- S8E3
Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
Apr 27, 2007Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.
- S8E4
Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes
May 5, 2007Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.
- S8E5
Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)
May 11, 2007Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.
- S8E6
Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror
May 18, 2007Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.
- S8E7
Kosovo: State of Denial
May 25, 2007Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.
- S8E8
East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Jun 1, 2007Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.
- S8E9
Israel's Wild West
Jun 8, 2007Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.
- S8E10
Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)
Jun 15, 2007Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.
- S8E11
Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money
Sep 14, 2007Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.
- S8E12
India's Broken People
Sep 21, 2007Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.
- S8E13
South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Sep 21, 2007Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.
- S8E14
Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country
Oct 5, 2007Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
- S8E15
Honduras: The War on Children
Oct 12, 2007Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
- S8E16
China's Olympic Lie
Oct 19, 2007Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
- S8E17
Iraq: The Battle for Oil
Oct 26, 2007Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.
- S8E18
Colombia: Cocaine City
Nov 2, 2007Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.
- S8E19
Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.
- S8E20
Congo: Children of the Genocide
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.