Thailand is grappling with an unsettling trend: a rise in homegrown gun violence and mass shootings. Big Story’s senior correspondent Jason Motlagh talks to survivors and experts trying to make sense of horrific scenes that were once observed at a distance and are now closer and more frequent.
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‘Nurture’ explores powerful stories of environmental and agricultural resilience in Latin America. All of them touch on a common theme: the way that communities are managing the challenges they are facing, whether it is through the use of technology, the return to traditional practices, or even updating old models to adapt to the circumstances and demands of the present time.
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‘Portland, Oregon, is an epicenter of the deepening opioid crisis in the United States, where a life is lost to drug use every eleven minutes.
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‘Red Light, Racial Violence in the U.S. South’ sheds light into one of the country’s major fault lines. Correspondent Dan Williams combines detailed reporting of current events with historical precedents to deliver a hard hitting piece of journalism.
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In Toxic – U.S. Warfare in Vietnam, Big Story correspondent Jason Motlaugh hears directly from the survivors of a conflict that ended in 1975 but is still claiming victims to this day.
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The dark story behind America’s “Secret War” and its enduring effects in tiny Laos, 50 years later.
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Connected to China tells the stories of the people who have built cultural, educational and economic ties with China that have helped foster mutual exchange and diplomacy.
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Submerged in Plastic tells the stories of the people fighting the threat of microplastic pollution.
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The decades-long War on Drugs failed. The Colombian government is trying a new approach.
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On the Colombia-Venezuela border, dozens of children relentlessly pursue their education as they dream of a better future. Every day, they brave the indomitable terrain of the La Guajira peninsula to get to school.
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The factions battling for supremacy in Port-au-Prince and the civilians trapped in the crossfire.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon called his 1972 visit to China “the week that changed the world.” But it was the secret trip taken by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger the year before that laid the foundation of the historic meeting that would see China and the United States begin to normalize bilateral relations.
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In San Francisco, rampant crime, soaring costs and a broken government are driving residents into the streets — or out of state. Big Story reports on the unraveling of America’s largest economy.
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Last may, the U.S. ended the state of national emergency declared because of the COVID-19 epidemic. For thousands of ‘long haulers’, however, the virus is still part of their daily lives.
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A new generation of math and science innovators are pushing research to new levels.
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Biodiversity is the variety of life on planet earth. Declining ecosystems threaten our way of life. Balance: Biodiversity in the Americas show some of the efforts being undertaken in Latin America and the U.S. to maintain a diversity of species and allow our society to function in perfect symmetry.
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Even as the world inches toward its sixth mass extinction event, the first one driven by human activity, an army of conservationists and researchers is fighting to restore balance and protect the biodiversity in China, one of the largest countries on earth.
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A decade after the killings at Sandy Hook, the frequency of these events seems to have spiked. 2022 is the third year in a row that the United States recorded over 600 mass shootings.
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Long COVID sufferers share what it’s like living with these symptoms for weeks, months and even years after an initial infection.
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One year after the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan’s dark past haunts the present — and the future looks bleaker by the day.
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Native Americans are the most vulnerable minority in the country. This episode of The Race Gap in the U.S. takes us to South Dakota, homeland of the Lakota people, to examine how this came to be.
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At the turn of this century, Hispanics became the largest minority group in the United States. This milestone, however, hasn’t changed the way members of the community are being treated by authorities.
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Since the pandemic hit, attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. The Race Gap in the U.S. premieres with an episode about the latest wave of anti Asian sentiment and its deep seeded roots in the country’s history.
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Since the pandemic hit, attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. The Race Gap in the U.S. premieres with an episode about the latest wave of anti Asian sentiment and its deep seeded roots in the country’s history.
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‘Forever Young’ meets with scientists, doctors and entrepreneurs deep in the pursuit for everlasting youth.
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‘New Endeavors’ highlights how economic growth and a shared sense of the common good have led to unprecedented gains for China’s people, as well as how those values are deeply rooted in how Chinese people envision their own futures.
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Speaking with United Nations peacekeepers, officials, educators, musicians and activists, ‘The Sounds of Mali’ takes viewers from the wind-swept dunes of the Sahara, to the adobe brick-built streets of Timbuktu.
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‘Two Degrees Celsius’ examines the physical, material and psychological damage being dealt by climate change.
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Speaking with former addicts, chemists, family members of victims and current synthetic drug users; ‘The Molecule Movers’ takes viewers into the world of black-market chemistry.
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The Spanish Gate takes an in-depth look at how the Iberian nation became a major gateway for narcotics, the methods used by smugglers and cartels and the efforts of law enforcement, activists and municipalities vying to solve this problem.
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‘State of Fear: The U.S. Legacy in El Salvador’ takes viewers deep inside this ever-growing world of gangs and violence while examining the effects of migration and deportation on gang membership.
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‘Running Water: COVID-19 in Africa’ takes viewers to South Africa and Kenya to see the struggles faced by their citizens while examining the efforts being made by their governments, NGOs and residents to remain safe where little water is to be found.
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‘A Long Lost War: The U.S. Military in Afghanistan’ takes viewers to the embattled Wardak province on the outskirts of Kabul to examine how far along the country is in its peace process.
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‘Pandemic Response’ takes viewers to Texas, Georgia and North Carolina to see first-hand the divisions being caused by measures made to protect against COVID-19.
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‘Collateral: Drug Trafficking During COVID-19’ goes behind the scenes of the Mexican narcotics industry to speak with drug lords, assassins and the people who have suffered loss at their hands to depict the impacts of COVID-19 south of the US border.
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‘Reconciliation: Colombia’s Journey for Peace’ takes viewers to the cities and wildernesses of the nation to see what progress is being made and what hurdles remain in Colombia’s quest to form a cohesive, peaceful and unified state.
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‘Reconciliation: Colombia’s Journey for Peace’ takes viewers to the cities and wildernesses of the nation to see what progress is being made and what hurdles remain in Colombia’s quest to form a cohesive, peaceful and unified state.
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‘Surging: 24 Hours in New Delhi’ takes viewers to India’s capital to reveal how COVID-19 is impacting the city’s different social classes while underlining challenges preventing doctors and police officers from containing the pandemic.
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‘Curfew: 24 Hours in Africa’ takes viewers to Nairobi, Kenya and Durban, South Africa to show viewers challenges faced by doctors treating an already immunocompromised community as well as those facing two of Africa’s fastest growing countries.
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‘Emerging: 24 Hours in Europe’ takes viewers to Spain, Italy, Germany and France to see how far efforts to combat COVID-19 have come and to learn what challenges still remain for the continent’s residents, medical workers and first responders.
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Though your phone may have been designed in California, your car in Germany and your camera in Japan, their components originate from all corners of the globe.
Globalization has changed how our products are manufactured, making the globe an international cooperative factory.
Made in Different Places takes a close look at how multinational the products we use have become and how this process has changed how the world conducts business.
Though your phone may have been designed in California, your car in Germany and your camera in Japan, their components originate from all corners of the globe.
Globalization has changed how our products are manufactured, making the globe an international cooperative factory.
Made in Different Places takes a close look at how multinational the products we use have become and how this process has changed how the world conducts business.
‘Up North’ takes viewers to Norway, Russia and France to see how wildfires, lack of snow and melting ice are impacting daily life as temperatures continue to climb.
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‘Infection: COVID-19 In Latin America’ examines and Brazil and Mexico to get a firsthand look at how Latin America’s two largest economies are dealing with the Coronavirus through interviews with doctors, residents and community workers vying to contain its spread.
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‘I Can’t Breathe: Racism in the U.S.’ takes viewers to the front lines of the protests in the nation’s capital, Minneapolis and New York, to hear the message of the frustrated masses while examining the history of racial inequality in the U.S.
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‘State of Emergency: 24 Hours in New York’ puts viewers in the shoes of paramedics, doctors, bankers and restaurateurs to depict life in America’s most populous and economically critical city.
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A look inside the lives of those fighting, and at risk from, the public health emergency threatening the entire planet; COVID-19.
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On the eve of the 2020 Chinese New Year a mysterious new illness was discovered in Wuhan China. Now known as COVID-19, the illness quickly infected thousands causing the unprecedented lockdown of millions within the city and its surrounding areas.
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The New Germans takes an in-depth look at the efforts to integrate and welcome the country’s newest residents as well as the growing political movement to prevent further immigration.
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