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5 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Sun, Apr 14, 2019
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has been an outspoken defender of the poor, refugees and LGBT people. That has ultra-conservatives within and outside the Church riled up. Now they're attacking him. Dennis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, has treated thousands of victims of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last year he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. A Russian troll farm in St Petersburg latched onto wedge issues in America-race, immigration, gun control-and spread disinformation around them online to sow discord in America. The goal was to get Americans off their computers and onto the streets.
Episode 2
Sun, Jul 14, 2019
NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel visits China to take an inside look at the country's booming growth. China's economy has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. But have the advances come from a level playing field? NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel visited Shenzhen to find out how startups are learning from Western goods.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 22, 2019
Richard Engel presents a look at ISIS, the most brutal terrorist group in modern history. How do they recruit, and have they really been defeated? NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel takes an in-depth look at how ISIS used their military and reputation for brutality to capture a large territory in Iraq and Syria before clashing with the people who fought back.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 13, 2019
Whether President Trump was making aid to Ukraine contingent on a political favor is the question now driving the impeachment inquiry. Was he, as Rep. Adam Schiff contends, engaged in a "shakedown" of a foreign president? NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel looks into what Rudy Giuliani and the Trump administration were trying to accomplish in Ukraine.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 17, 2019
In fall 2019, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the northern Syrian border, effectively abandoning longtime allies the Kurds, and opening the door for Turkey to commence ethnic cleansing. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel immediately dispatched to the frontlines where he was able to tap into extensive contacts to document the invasion and its aftermath..