Newsnight’s international editor Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Ukraine’s border with Belarus, where 20,000 Russian troops are stationed as the threat of war escalates. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Russia has some 100,000 troops near Ukraine – but denies planning to invade. The tensions come eight years after Russia annexed Ukraine’s southern Crimea peninsula and backed a…… Read More
Nearly three years ago, so-called Islamic State fighters swept through northern Iraq, where the country’s oldest ethnic minority were living – the Yazidis. Many of the men were shot, while the women and children were kidnapped, taken as hostage and raped. The Victoria Derbyshire programme’s reporter Fiona Lamdin has spent a couple of days with…… Read More
In an age of disinformation, with attention focused on online harms, is the illegal online wildlife trade getting the attention it deserves? Click’s undercover investigation tracks one illicit seller to his premises in Asia and reveals a global initiative trying to dent a £15 billion industry that is often fuelled by the illegal pet trade.…… Read More
After an unprecedented year of devastating cyber-attacks, an international push to track down hackers is under way. Cyber gangs are being arrested in multiple countries, but not Russia, which has historically ignored accusations of harbouring some of the worst cyber-criminals. BBC reporter Joe Tidy travelled to Russia to try to find the world’s most wanted…… Read More
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing and approving apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf. BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale.…… Read More
Landlords in West of England are offering free rent in return for sex, an investigation from BBC Inside Out West has found. The Ministry of Justice says this is illegal and even placing an advert is breaking the law and could result in a seven year jail term. But the BBC found examples of adverts…… Read More
Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy. But what’s going on beneath the surface? The BBC’s Frank Gardner explains how not everything is as it seems. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog… Read More
The killing of George Floyd in the United States a year ago placed a sharp focus on police racism – not just in America but on law enforcement officers around the world. The death of Mr Floyd, an African-American man, at the hands of police officers in Minnesota, led to global protests against discrimination and…… Read More
Agent Jensen suspects the Task Force may be onto her investigation. It’s time to pull the trigger. Subscribe – https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice In Baltimore, Maryland, an elite group of plainclothes officers called the Gun Trace Task Force gets hundreds of illegal guns off the streets every year. Secretly, however, these detectives are also robbing people, selling drugs,…… Read More
BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery, including a woman offering a child for sale. At the centre of this powerful investigative film is Fatou, a 16 year old in Kuwait City who has been there for nine months. We follow her rescue and…… Read More
The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for…… Read More
In July 2018 a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. It shows two women and two young children being led away at gunpoint by a group of Cameroonian soldiers. The captives are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBC The government of Cameroon initially dismissed the video as “fake news.”…… Read More