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Correspondent, No Experience Necessary
presented by Sue Lloyd-Roberts; produced by Ewa Ewart, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2000), 45 mins
An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which beg...
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presented by Sue Lloyd-Roberts; produced by Ewa Ewart, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2000), 45 mins
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An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which begins in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia and leads to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a murky, cruel world i...
An estimated half a million women are being transported to Western Europe by sex traffickers every year. It's a multi-million pound business where, for the traffickers, the rewards are high and the risks are low. But, for the girls, the consequences are brutal and potentially dangerous. Following a route which begins in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia and leads to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers a murky, cruel world in which employment agencies seduce young women with false promises, unscrupulous pimps abuse them and the police and judiciary turn a blind eye to this contemporary form of slavery.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ewa Ewart, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Topic / Theme
EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Prostitution, Human trafficking, Women's rights, Law, Current Affairs, Latvians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Correspondent, The Afghan Trap
directed by Francis Smith; produced by Francis Smith and Simon Finch, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 52 mins
The American bombardment of Afghanistan and the subsequent overthrow of the Taliban left a power vacuum that the United Front (aka the Northern Alliance) were all too eager to fill. George Bush's Coalition Against Terrorism didn't have any better ideas, so their blood-stained misrule from 1992-96 - when warlords j...
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directed by Francis Smith; produced by Francis Smith and Simon Finch, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 52 mins
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The American bombardment of Afghanistan and the subsequent overthrow of the Taliban left a power vacuum that the United Front (aka the Northern Alliance) were all too eager to fill. George Bush's Coalition Against Terrorism didn't have any better ideas, so their blood-stained misrule from 1992-96 - when warlords jostled for power and in-fighting left tens of thousands dead - was forgotten. Now they form a large part of a NATO-approved interim gov...
The American bombardment of Afghanistan and the subsequent overthrow of the Taliban left a power vacuum that the United Front (aka the Northern Alliance) were all too eager to fill. George Bush's Coalition Against Terrorism didn't have any better ideas, so their blood-stained misrule from 1992-96 - when warlords jostled for power and in-fighting left tens of thousands dead - was forgotten. Now they form a large part of a NATO-approved interim government. But in today's Kabul, the Kalashnikov rules. Violent crime is on the rise once again. Can the United Front's former warlords bury their differences for long enough to achieve democratic rule? Award-winning reporter Phil Rees sounds a note of caution.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Francis Smith, Simon Finch, British Broadcasting Corporation, Phil Rees
Author / Creator
Francis Smith
Date Published / Released
2001-12-02, 2013-12-02
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Speaker / Narrator
Phil Rees
Topic / Theme
Afghanistan Conflict (1980 -- ), Afghan, Violence, Government, United States Intervention in Afghanistan, December 22, 2001-, United Nations Intervention in Afghanistan, October 7, 2001-, Taliban Rule, Afghanistan, 1994-2001, Politics & Policy, Law, Post Conflict Support, Current Affairs, Afghans, African Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Correspondent, Dying To Leave
directed by Sun Shuyun, 1960-; presented by Olenka Frenkiel, fl. 1988; produced by Frank Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 47 mins
In June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals were discovered in a truck at Dover Ferry Port in the UK. Packed like cattle in a container with no air, food or water, they suffocated to death. An estimated 100,000 Chinese people entrust their lives to human smugglers or 'Snakeheads' every year. For huge fees, they are promise...
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directed by Sun Shuyun, 1960-; presented by Olenka Frenkiel, fl. 1988; produced by Frank Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 47 mins
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In June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals were discovered in a truck at Dover Ferry Port in the UK. Packed like cattle in a container with no air, food or water, they suffocated to death. An estimated 100,000 Chinese people entrust their lives to human smugglers or 'Snakeheads' every year. For huge fees, they are promised a new life in the West. Correspondent traces the business of human smuggling to its source - Fujian, China. Through unprecedented acc...
In June 2000, 58 Chinese nationals were discovered in a truck at Dover Ferry Port in the UK. Packed like cattle in a container with no air, food or water, they suffocated to death. An estimated 100,000 Chinese people entrust their lives to human smugglers or 'Snakeheads' every year. For huge fees, they are promised a new life in the West. Correspondent traces the business of human smuggling to its source - Fujian, China. Through unprecedented access to the police and the government, the film shows Beijing's fight against the smugglers and reveals the on-going torment of the families caught-up in the Dover disaster.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Frank Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Sun Shuyun, 1960-, Olenka Frenkiel, fl. 1988
Date Published / Released
2001, 2013
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Topic / Theme
China and its Borders, Cliques and gangs, Organized crime, Smuggling, Accidental deaths, Law, Sociology, Current Affairs, Chinese, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Correspondent, Nato's Children in Kosovo
directed by Nick Bolster; presented by David Sells; produced by Nick Bolster, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2001), 1 hour 4 mins
NATO has a problem on its hands. It is called Kosovo. Two years ago, in response to the mass ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days forcing Milosevic into retreat. The results of this bombing - a dangerous power vacuum in Kosovo itself, with Albanian nationalism spilling over vici...
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directed by Nick Bolster; presented by David Sells; produced by Nick Bolster, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2001), 1 hour 4 mins
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NATO has a problem on its hands. It is called Kosovo. Two years ago, in response to the mass ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days forcing Milosevic into retreat. The results of this bombing - a dangerous power vacuum in Kosovo itself, with Albanian nationalism spilling over viciously into neighbouring Macedonia and Southern Serbia; not to mention the plight of Kosovo's own Serbian minority after two years as vi...
NATO has a problem on its hands. It is called Kosovo. Two years ago, in response to the mass ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians, NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days forcing Milosevic into retreat. The results of this bombing - a dangerous power vacuum in Kosovo itself, with Albanian nationalism spilling over viciously into neighbouring Macedonia and Southern Serbia; not to mention the plight of Kosovo's own Serbian minority after two years as victims of murder and mayhem. It seems the boot is firmly on the other foot. Has NATO perhaps been a touch naive?
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Nick Bolster, British Broadcasting Corporation, David Sells
Author / Creator
Nick Bolster, David Sells
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Speaker / Narrator
David Sells
Topic / Theme
Kosovo War (1998-1999), Serbian, Albanian, Ethnic cleansing, Ethnic conflict, Nationalism, Bombardment, Kosovo War, 1998-1999, Politics & Policy, Diplomacy, International Response, Current Affairs, Serbians, Albanians, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Correspondent, Exposed
presented by Nancy Durham; produced by Guy Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 44 mins
At the time of the 1999 Nato bombardment of Kosovo and Serbia, the bodies of more than a thousand Albanian Kosovars, mostly civilians, were trucked to secret sites in Serbia. That was supposed to be the end of them. But when Serbian police detective Bosko Radojkovic was sent to investigate an accident involving a...
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presented by Nancy Durham; produced by Guy Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2013), 44 mins
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At the time of the 1999 Nato bombardment of Kosovo and Serbia, the bodies of more than a thousand Albanian Kosovars, mostly civilians, were trucked to secret sites in Serbia. That was supposed to be the end of them. But when Serbian police detective Bosko Radojkovic was sent to investigate an accident involving a truck in the River Danube, he took photographs of what he found. The last one shows arms and legs hanging out of the truck's rear doors...
At the time of the 1999 Nato bombardment of Kosovo and Serbia, the bodies of more than a thousand Albanian Kosovars, mostly civilians, were trucked to secret sites in Serbia. That was supposed to be the end of them. But when Serbian police detective Bosko Radojkovic was sent to investigate an accident involving a truck in the River Danube, he took photographs of what he found. The last one shows arms and legs hanging out of the truck's rear doors. Correspondent investigates the killings, the cover-up, and the trail that leads to Slobodan Milosevic himself.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Guy Smith, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Nancy Durham
Date Published / Released
2002, 2013
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Speaker / Narrator
Bosko Radojkovic
Person Discussed
Bosko Radojkovic, Slobodan Milošević, 1941-2006
Topic / Theme
Kosovo War (1998-1999), Albanian, Legal evidence, Kosovo War, 1998-1999, History, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, Transitional Justice, Current Affairs, Albanians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Correspondent, The Ugly War: Children of Vengeance
directed by Stuart Tanner; presented by John Kampfner; produced by Stuart Tanner, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 46 mins
Death is now the Palestinians' most potent weapon. They don't have tanks, helicopters or a professional army - all they have is young men willing to be martyred, and the element of surprise. Gaining rare access to the Palestinian militias, Correspondent focuses on the nexus of 'terrorist' street fighters in three...
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directed by Stuart Tanner; presented by John Kampfner; produced by Stuart Tanner, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 46 mins
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Death is now the Palestinians' most potent weapon. They don't have tanks, helicopters or a professional army - all they have is young men willing to be martyred, and the element of surprise. Gaining rare access to the Palestinian militias, Correspondent focuses on the nexus of 'terrorist' street fighters in three West Bank towns and visits a bomb-making factory hidden in the Jenin refugee camp where 'suicide belts' and explosives are made. Aren't...
Death is now the Palestinians' most potent weapon. They don't have tanks, helicopters or a professional army - all they have is young men willing to be martyred, and the element of surprise. Gaining rare access to the Palestinian militias, Correspondent focuses on the nexus of 'terrorist' street fighters in three West Bank towns and visits a bomb-making factory hidden in the Jenin refugee camp where 'suicide belts' and explosives are made. Aren't the militants worried about Israeli intelligence? 'Don't make me laugh!' says one. 'While Jenin was under siege, individuals in Jenin were carying out martyrdom operations inside Israel.'
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
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Stuart Tanner, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Stuart Tanner, John Kampfner
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Topic / Theme
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, Bombings, Terrorism, Militias, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993-, Sociology, Current Affairs, Israelis, Palestinians, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Correspondent, The Ugly War: Israel Undercover
directed by Dominic Allan; presented by John Kampfner; produced by Dominic Allan, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 44 mins
How do the Israeli military decide when to take a Palestinian terrorist alive, and when to kill him? Granted rare access to the Israeli military machine, Correspondent follows two Israeli commando units to reveal the criteria they work by. Often it's a matter of a few miles and a few hours between the terrorist ce...
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directed by Dominic Allan; presented by John Kampfner; produced by Dominic Allan, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Correspondent (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2002), 44 mins
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How do the Israeli military decide when to take a Palestinian terrorist alive, and when to kill him? Granted rare access to the Israeli military machine, Correspondent follows two Israeli commando units to reveal the criteria they work by. Often it's a matter of a few miles and a few hours between the terrorist cell - the engineer, organiser, suicide bomber - and the targeted Israeli town. Israelis call such targets 'ticking bombs', and they are...
How do the Israeli military decide when to take a Palestinian terrorist alive, and when to kill him? Granted rare access to the Israeli military machine, Correspondent follows two Israeli commando units to reveal the criteria they work by. Often it's a matter of a few miles and a few hours between the terrorist cell - the engineer, organiser, suicide bomber - and the targeted Israeli town. Israelis call such targets 'ticking bombs', and they are the highest priority. The rest of the world may debate whether military operations slow down the cycle of violence or just cause more bloodshed; the Israeli military don't have the time.
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Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
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Dominic Allan, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Dominic Allan, John Kampfner
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Correspondent
Topic / Theme
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, Terrorism, Soldiers, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993-, Politics & Policy, Current Affairs, Israelis, Palestinians, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Inside Story, Suicide Killers
produced by Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1991), 20 mins
Profile of the Tamil Tigers - one of the world's most fanatical groups of independence fighters - which examines their methods, such as suicide bombing, and their ideology. Why, for example, would they have assassinated Raj Gandhi?
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produced by Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1991), 20 mins
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Profile of the Tamil Tigers - one of the world's most fanatical groups of independence fighters - which examines their methods, such as suicide bombing, and their ideology. Why, for example, would they have assassinated Raj Gandhi?
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation, Sir Ian Holm, 1931-
Date Published / Released
1991
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Inside Story
Speaker / Narrator
Sir Ian Holm, 1931-
Person Discussed
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi, 1944-1991
Topic / Theme
Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009), Tamil, Bombings, Terrorism, Sri Lankan Civil War, 1983-2009, Politics & Policy, Sociology, Documentation of Crimes, Origins, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Inside Story, Dogs of War
produced by Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1992), 50 mins
The Yugoslavian Civil War acted as a magnet for men hungry for the buzz of battle. Not since the Spanish War did so many foreigners sign up for another country's cause. This film follows one of these individuals, a big ex-paratrooper and ex-French Legionnaire, as he trains the one English-speaking 'international'...
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produced by Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1992), 50 mins
Description
The Yugoslavian Civil War acted as a magnet for men hungry for the buzz of battle. Not since the Spanish War did so many foreigners sign up for another country's cause. This film follows one of these individuals, a big ex-paratrooper and ex-French Legionnaire, as he trains the one English-speaking 'international' company in the Croatian Army. This story is fast-paced and is based around an unusual and surprisingly engaging character.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen Lambert, 1959-, British Broadcasting Corporation
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Inside Story
Topic / Theme
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Yugoslavian, Soldiers, Mercenaries, Civil war, Military personnel, War, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Politics & Policy, History, Documentation of Crimes, Current Affairs, Yugoslavs, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Inside Story, Mules
produced by Olivia Lichtenstein, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1992), 57 mins
One in every five women in prison in Britain today is a Nigerian woman convicted of smuggling drugs into the UK. The 'Mules' are the small-fry in a big international game. For every woman they arrest, many others will be recruited to take her place. Inside Story travels to Nigeria to discover what compels women to...
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produced by Olivia Lichtenstein, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Inside Story (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1992), 57 mins
Description
One in every five women in prison in Britain today is a Nigerian woman convicted of smuggling drugs into the UK. The 'Mules' are the small-fry in a big international game. For every woman they arrest, many others will be recruited to take her place. Inside Story travels to Nigeria to discover what compels women to undertake such a dangerous mission and to explore what happens to their families while they are away for so many years.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Olivia Lichtenstein, British Broadcasting Corporation, Veronika Hyks, 1951-
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Inside Story
Speaker / Narrator
Veronika Hyks, 1951-
Topic / Theme
EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Border Events and Areas Context, Women, Illegal drugs, Drug trafficking, Smuggling, Law, Sociology, Current Affairs, Nigerians (Nigeria), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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