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Germany: Rebellion on the Rhine
After talks in Germany on government spending collapsed, chancellor Olaf Scholz was forced to dissolve his coalition and call for snap elections, to …
1 year, 8 months ago
BBC Trending: The dark side of music streaming
In September last year, musician Michael Smith of North Carolina was charged with stealing millions from music streaming services. The US Department …
1 year, 8 months ago
Assignment: Spain - ‘liquid gold’ under pressure
Spain is the world’s largest producer of olive oil. But successive, brutal droughts have led to plummeting production, whilst prices have reached rec…
1 year, 8 months ago
Assignment: Border Stories
Since President Trump was inaugurated in January, migrants – and especially the border the US shares with Mexico - have dominated the news. In this b…
1 year, 9 months ago
Troublemakers: Drugged, framed and detained
BBC Eye investigates police abuse of psychiatric detention in China. In 2012, China introduced a law to curb the widespread abuse of psychiatric hosp…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Fifth Floor: Inside an Iranian prison
Thousands of women in Iran were arrested in 2022 after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests against the mandatory hijab. Many of them were sent to Evin,…
1 year, 9 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Immigrants in America
Hours after his inauguration, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at America’s southern border with Mexico. He vowed that "all illeg…
1 year, 9 months ago
Heart and Soul: Spirituality in Sin City
In Spirituality in Sin City, presenter Rajeev Gupta takes listeners on an unexpected journey through the hidden spiritual side of Las Vegas—a city fa…
1 year, 9 months ago
Flamboyant funerals
Ghana has a reputation for staging some of the most eccentric funerals in the world – boasting extraordinary displays of colour, dancing, deep rooted…
1 year, 9 months ago
BBC Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness
Three years since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, BBC Trending speaks to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analysts and fact checkers who hav…
1 year, 9 months ago