Season 9
19 episodes · Feb 8, 2008
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- S9E1
Egypt's Rubbish People
Feb 8, 2008Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.
- S9E2
USA: The Devil's Highway
Feb 15, 2008Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
- S9E3
Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
Feb 22, 2008Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
- S9E4
Russia: Railway of Bones
Feb 29, 2008Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
- S9E5
Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
Mar 7, 2008Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
- S9E6
Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
Mar 14, 2008Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
- S9E7
Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
Mar 28, 2008Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
- S9E8
Benin: Voodoo Children
Apr 4, 2008Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
- S9E9
Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
Apr 11, 2008Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
- S9E10
Kenya's Human Time Bomb
Apr 18, 2008Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
- S9E11
South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
Oct 17, 2008Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
- S9E12
India: God's Own Country
Oct 24, 2008Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
- S9E13
Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
Oct 31, 2008Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
- S9E14
Paraguay's Painful Harvest
Nov 7, 2008Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
- S9E15
Philippines' Dirty War
Nov 14, 2008Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
- S9E16
Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
Nov 21, 2008Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
- S9E17
Thailand: Lessons in Terror
Dec 5, 2008Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
- S9E18
Yemen: Sea of Tears
Dec 12, 2008Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Edward Watts reveal an unseen human catastrophe unfolding in Yemen as thousands of desperate refugees fleeing the chaos and carnage in the Horn of Africa suffer terrible ill-treatment as they cross the Gulf of Aden on their way to the Promised Land of Arabia.
- S9E19
Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
Dec 19, 2008This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.