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24 Episodes 2024 - 2024
Episode 1
29 mins
Fake fashion is big business. From Gucci to Balenciaga, replica brands are everywhere. The trade is run by crime syndicates implicated in human trafficking and even terrorism. This story goes inside the counterfeit industry.
Episode 2
30 mins
Indonesia has embarked on a radical plan to relocate its congested and sinking capital Jakarta to the jungles of Borneo. A new $45 billion mega city is currently being built but critics say it's too expensive and too remote.
Episode 3
31 mins
The horrific events of October 7 and its aftermath have dramatically changed the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. With widespread loss of life and devastation, suspicion and revenge are boiling over and fear is everywhere.
Episode 4
29 mins
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up and accused India of being behind the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil last year, the world took notice. To have a head of state call out another country for effectively a state sponsored assassination was eye popping. Then, months later, US authorities said an Indian agent was involved in a murder attempt on an American Sikh in New York. Now Foreign Correspondent can reveal Australian authorities are also speaking to the Sikh community here. This week, South Asia correspondent Avani Dias travels to Punjab where tensions are high and the authorities are watching. This is the Sikh homeland where a banned separatist movement is fighting to create its own independent nation of Khalistan. Avani visits the family home of the man murdered in Canada, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, and learns of unusual activity in the lead up to his killing. She also gains rare access to the movement's leaders, viewed as extremists by Indian officials, who are in no doubt the Modi government is targeting Sikh separatists around the world including Australia.
Episode 5
30 mins
Italy's population is ageing and with towns dying out residents in Sicily have undertaken a grand social experiment. They're selling abandoned houses to newcomers for just one euro in a bid to breathe new life into old towns.
Episode 6
30 mins
In the jungle of central Vietnam lies Son Doong, a magnificent underground cave passage, the largest in the world. Undisturbed for millions of years, its future has been placed in doubt with plans to make it a tourist mecca.
Episode 7
30 mins
Eighty years since Japan and the Allied forces waged a battle at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islanders are still paying the price with thousands of unexploded devices left behind and the threat of leaking oil from rusting warships.
Episode 8
29 mins
In Japan, the ancient sport of sumo is wrestling with how to accept women competitors on an equal footing, challenging deeply held traditions. We meet the women who are trying to modernise attitudes in a sport they love.
Episode 9
29 mins
The UK illicit drug market is worth an estimated 9.4 billion pounds a year. In small towns in the north of England, drugs are being warehoused and sold by criminals who make large sums of money and lead enviable lifestyles.
Episode 10
31 mins
In the decades since the Korean war, over 200,000 children have been adopted to families worldwide. Now as adults, adoptees are demanding investigations into falsified documents, duplicate identities and even stolen children.
Episode 11
29 mins
Across Ukraine, increasing numbers of women are running newsrooms and reporting the war from the frontline. While male colleagues have joined the fight, women are working hard to ensure isolated communities are kept informed.
Episode 12
29 mins
Immigration has become a defining issue in this year's US Presidential Election race. In Texas, the Republican Governor has politicised the problem by sending busloads of immigrants to Democrat cities like New York. (Final)
Episode 13
31 mins
In the US political tension and deep division are causing concern for thousands of Australians who now call America home. Some are horrified by the state of affairs and are planning to leave. Others hail Donald Trump a hero.
Episode 14
30 mins
In the Arctic, tensions between Russia and NATO nations are escalating in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard, one of the most geostrategic places on the planet. Russia is being accused of provocation and sabotage. (Return)
Episode 15
28 mins
With Hong Kong's protest movement effectively silenced and with activists either fleeing or ending up in jail, the city is being remade. More than 100,000 people have left and the new arrivals are coming from mainland China.
Episode 16
30 mins
Corruption, drug use and fraud are not what you expect from Thailand's Buddhist monks. A series of scandals is engulfing the religion. Go on patrol with the monk police and undercover agents trying to bring them into line.
Episode 17
30 mins
In the tourist mecca of New Caledonia tensions between the French government and the indigenous Kanak people have resulted in violent uprisings. The push for independence has created ongoing deep divisions in the country.
Episode 18
29 mins
A bouquet of flowers is the go-to gift for many occasions, but the world is paying a high price for out of season blooms. We go behind the scenes of the billion-dollar flower trade to reveal the true cost of flowers we buy.
Episode 19
38 mins
This week on Foreign Correspondent veteran reporter Jonathan Holmes returns to the program with an exclusive interview with the Australian doctor held captive by Al Qaeda in the harsh Saharan desert for more than seven years. Dr Ken Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were kidnapped from the West African country of Burkina Faso in January 2016 where they were working. While Jocelyn was released three weeks later, Ken endured brutal conditions. He was quietly released last year at the age of 88. Now the Elliotts have decided to tell their extraordinary story to Foreign Correspondent. Jonathan Holmes has been following their case since the Elliotts were first taken. In 2016, he travelled with a military escort to the remote town of Djibo in Burkina Faso where the Elliotts had lived for more than 40 years and where they ran a hospital offering lifesaving surgery. Days out from broadcast, concerns over Dr Elliott's safety prevented his report from being shown. Now their story can finally be told. It's one of unimaginable pain and suffering as well as remarkable resilience. It's also a story of hope, faith and survival against all odds.
Episode 20
28 mins
Violent gang wars in El Salvador have earned the central American nation the label of "the most dangerous country in the world". But President Nayib Bukele had a solution: declare a ruthless war on the gangs and lock up their members in the world's biggest and toughest prison. This week Foreign Correspondent presents a rare look inside El Salvador's mega prison, a state-of-the-art correctional centre capable of housing up to 40,000 prisoners. Known as CECOT (Centre for the confinement of Terrorism) the inmates are crammed into communal cells in extremely harsh conditions. Critics call the prison a "black hole of human rights" and there's concern many detainees are not gang members but innocent people who are the victims of a police arrest quota system. But the El Salvadoran government remains steadfast, proudly presenting its mega prison to the world as it continues to wage its war on crime.
Episode 21
30 mins
Bali is ranked as one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, but is the seemingly insatiable demand for a piece of paradise threatening the very thing that makes the island so special? This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Bill Birtles travels to Bali to see first-hand the impact cashed up foreign developers are having on the island paradise. The demand from holiday makers and now digital nomads is turning Bali's iconic rice paddies and coastline into construction zones. Critics say the Bali that many know and love is now at a crossroad and that over development and under regulation will change the island of the gods forever.
Episode 22
30 mins
Across New Zealand tensions are high with Maori protestors warning the country is facing a watershed moment on race relations. The protestors are angry about the rollback of Maori programs by the conservative government.
Episode 23
29 mins
It's the billion-dollar crime you've never heard of - copper theft. And it's causing chaos in South Africa. Across the country police and armed private contractors are waging war on the criminals and gangs who are cashing in on one of the world's most sought-after metals. This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Tom Joyner embeds with South African law enforcement as they hunt down the thieves who are stealing copper from the country's essential infrastructure. The crime is causing serious disruptions to energy supply, transportation and telecommunications. Copper is critical to the production of clean energy technology, but a global shortage is driving its price to record heights. A thriving black market for copper has emerged, encouraging criminals to risk their lives to steal it.
Episode 24
31 mins
The US state of Michigan is one of a handful of battleground states that will determine who will be the next American president. Will Kamala Harris' late injection into the race give the Democrats the boost they need to win?