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Mugabe’s Reign of Terror
Ivory Coast:
Blood and Chocolate
Bolivia:
Anarchy in the Andes
Chongqing:
Invisible City
Haiti:
Showdown in Sun City
China’s African Takeover
Birth of a Nation
State of Denial
Israel’s Wild West
On the Trail of the Ninjas
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Mugabe’s Reign of Terror
Foreign journalists are largely banned in Zimbabwe but Reporter Evan Williams and Producer Siobhan Sinnerton travelled undercover for three weeks through the country. Travelling through the country and dodging President Robert Mugabe's security forces, they meet members of the political opposition, women who have been tortured and families struggling with an inflation rate of 2,000 per cent. Among the worst hit are children in the countryside orphaned by the Aids pandemic, and there is evidence to suggest that the Mugabe Government is using the supply of antiretroviral drugs for HIV and food aid to gerrymander upcoming elections.
"Urgent, troubling television of the highest standard."
The Observer
"This documentary series remains one of the most worthwhile strands on TV -one of the few that is not spoilt by the quest for ratings."
The Times
Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
Reporter Evan Williams and Producer James Brabazon travel to the Ivory Coast to investigate the murderous civil war taking place over the cocoa crops destined to be turned into the world’s chocolate. While blood diamonds grab the headlines, the control of the crop in a country that provides 43% of the world's cocoa is all-important. Williams needs an armed guard to travel through villages abandoned after fighting, telling a tale of lives destroyed and a country poised to suffer another civil war when the United Nations forces leave.
"…truly disturbing…"
The Sunday Times
Bolivia: Anarchy in the Andes
In Bolivia, indigenous peoples are exercising political power for the first time since the Spanish conquest, following the election of President Evo Morales. But his pledge to redistribute land and resources in a country where seven per cent of the population own 90 per cent of the land has led to confrontation between whites and indigenous groups. Amid growing violence, reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer Ed Watts uncover a situation threatening to escalate into armed ethnic conflict
"…compulsory viewing…"
The Observer
Chongqing: Invisible City
Not many people outside China have heard of Chongqing, yet it is the fastest-growing metropolis in the world. At the moment it looks a bombsite, but by 2020 it will have been transformed into a vast commercial and industrial hub. The Chinese Government has already spent £ 114 billion in the past seven years on roads, bridges and dams to revitalise the western heartland of the country, and turn Chongqing into China’s version of Chicago. Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Nick Sturdee meet the city’s new billionaires – and the farmers who have been dispossessed, the homeowners who have been evicted and the migrant workers who are being exploited to create this economic powerhouse.
"A real eye-opener"
The Observer
Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
C4 April 13 2007 7.30pm
Cite de Soleil is in Haiti, and is the poorest neighbourhood in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The slum is run by gangs, who seemingly have no concern for human life., although members claim that they help rather than harm the community. Sandra Jordan and director Robin Barnwell arrive just as the UN and the gangs crash into yet another gunfight.
Against a backdrop of deadly violence, Jordan shows how the UN is battling to take over Cite de Soleil. Given that the gangs are armed with automatic weapons, the UN's task is enormous, all the more so because innocent people, often children, are frequently caught in the crossfire – as happens to Jordan and Barnwell. The UN is regularly blamed for deaths, but in reality it's impossible to tell whether they were accidentally killed by the UN or deliberately by the gangs. Amid the violence the UN is slowly making progress, bringing water and electricity to some of the poorest people on earth..
"Gangsters are arrested, gang strongholds shut down, clinics set up. What's equally impressive is that Unreported World is there to watch.”
The Observer
“another series of this excellent investigative journalism programme begins…"
Daily Mail
China’s African Takeover
C4 - Friday 20 April 2007 7.30pm
China is entangled in the biggest scramble for Africa since the West’s colonial powers were fighting over the resource-rich continent in the 19th century. China’s insatiable appetite for the raw materials to feed its growth brings unprecedented investment to Africa, and creates thousands of jobs. But, as reporter Aidan Hartley and director Tom Porter l travel through the Congo and Zambia, they film shocking scenes that reveal that the desperation of China to secure the resources it needs at the lowest price can also force low-paid workers, including children to face dirty dangerous conditions and even risk their lives.
“Excellent”
The Sunday Times
“..inescapably powerful…watching the chilling film of children crawling down a dark tunnel to scrape away at a rock face it is impossible not to think of the darkest days of colonialism…"
The Observer
Birth of a Nation
Reporter Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and producer Nick Sturdee travel to East Timor where – eight years after its independence from Indonesia- one of the world’s youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang violence and disorder as an Australian-led UN force struggles to keep the peace.
"Excellent...hugely worthwhile"
The Sunday Times
State of Denial
In Kosovo there are two tribes. The ethnic Albanians hate the Serbs. The Serbs hate the etnic Albanians. Eight years after Britain, the US and NATO went to war to save Kosovo’s Albanians from Serb aggression , Kosovo is about to become an independent state. Reporter Sam Kiley and Producer Robin Barnwell report on a violent divided country and ask – can Kosovo’s two tribes live together?
"A bleak but outstanding dispatch"
The Observer
Israel’s Wild West
In Israel the government is in disarray after the war in Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority is tearing itself apart in Gaza. Reporter Sandra Jordan and Producer Ed Watts investigate what’s happening on the West Bank, where a quarter of a million Israelis live cheek by jowl with more than two million Palestinians, and Israeli settlers are taking back settlements the Israeli Government expelled them from only two years before. They find an increasingly tense and violence situation – after one demonstration Israeli soldiers use tear gas and rubber bullets injuring Massad Abu-Toameh, the local journalist the team is working with, and sending him to hospital with serious head injuries.
"Reporter Sandra Jordan and producer Ed Watts risk their lives to tell of life in the West Bank"
Daily Telegraph
On the Trail of the Ninjas
The people of Mongolia have pulled off one of the great geopolitical magic tricks of all time managing to establish a country almost the size of Europe, shared between a population equivalent to that of Greater Manchester, right between the superpowers of China and Russia. In the last of the current series reporter Aidan Hartley and producer James Brabazon travel deep into the gobi desert and discover a country gripped by the greatest gold rush of modern times.
"A fine series"
Daily Telegraph
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