On Assignment - Episode Guide

In the first episode of the series, Martin Geissler presents 'The World's Largest Refugee Camp - Four Years On'. In 2011, Martin Geissler visted the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Eastern Kenya. The camp's overcrowding population was due to people fleeing Al-Shabaab militants and the famine in Somalia. Martin returns to Dadaab to see what has changed. A few months ago Kenya threatened to close the camp, leaving large populations of people without anywhere to go - what now for the people of the Dadaab Refugee Camp?

Alok Jha presents 'Nevada - Atomic Bomb'. The US government carried out 928 nuclear tests between 1951 and 1992 in a remote area known as the Nevada Test Site. Alok spoke to the surviving veterans and civilians who witnessed the atom bomb test first hand. Many people experienced the fall-out miles away in Utah and have been plagued with illnesses ever since. Alok asks: how do the veterans of the test site deal with their past pride in nuclear history with the horrendous effects of the fallout?

Rageh Omaar presents 'Beirut - A Tale of Two Cities'. Beirut has for many decades been described as the Paris of the Middle East however it has also been associated with decades of civil war. Rageh Omaar travels to Beirut to find if there still fears amongst the city's different communities. Rageh questions whether the war in neighbouring Syria will crack Beirut's stability.

Robert Moore heads to Iowa to see how the US presidential candidates are trying to rally support. Romilly Weeks looks at a nightclub killing in Bucharest. Tim Ewart investigates why the Catholic Church believes that the close relationship between a mother and son is posing a threat to the institution of marriage in Rome.

Martin Geissler reports on the growing frustration in Sweden which has allowed 160,000 refugees into the country last year. Chris Ship reports on the shifting political landscape in Spain. John Ray reports from South Africa's White only enclave.

In this edition, Middle East correspondent Geraint Vincent travels to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to see how the civil war in Syria is affecting the Druze communities that live across this uncertain frontier. International affairs editor Rageh Omaar visits Tehran, where a craze for plastic surgery has turned the city into the nose job capital of the world. Neil Connery reports from an ancient mountaintop town in Italy which is under threat from both nature and the modern world.

Rio de Janeiro: Countdown to the Olympic Opening Ceremony – Steve Scott

There are less than 100 days to go until the curtain raises on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but already political turmoil and high drama threaten to overshadow Brazil's showcase event. Nationwide protests, claims of corruption, the country's president now impeached: hardly the best build up to the world's largest sporting event. Add into the mix the devastating Zika virus and a crippling economic recession, and Brazilians could be forgiven for not feeling optimistic about the games.

But that is not the Rio way. This is a city that lives for a party and one party in particular: Carnival. Early every year, the city's streets come alive to a dazzling bombardment of the senses as revellers compete to be the most striking, colourful and vibrant show in town - played out to the irresistible rhythms of the Samba. It is exactly this spirit the games organisers are hoping to harness at the Olympic opening ceremony and make it a night to remember. Steve Scott has been to Rio to get a privileged glimpse behind the scenes as preparations gather pace and meets the city's charismatic mayor, who in the current political vacuum has been thrust further into the spotlight. Is he still confident the games will put Rio on the map for all the right reasons?

Yemen: Voices of a forgotten civil war – Neil Connery

The brutal civil war in Yemen has now raged for over a year, but little is heard from inside this bitterly divided country. Recently Neil Connery travelled to the country's ancient capital Sana'a, much of which now lies in ruins, and beyond into the harsh but beautiful mountains to tell the story of a people's struggle to survive in the shadows of war.

LA: Food deserts – Nina Nannar

For years Nina Nannar has covered the Oscars for ITV News, but this year she left the glitz and glamour of Hollywood behind for the Los Angeles suburb of Watts to meet the chefs on a mission to bring healthy eating to the streets of LA's poorest neighbourhoods. Once synonymous with riots and violence, today Watts faces a different challenge. Without even a supermarket in town, residents say that the lack of healthy, affordable food has created a reliance on cheap fast-food outlets and a serious obesity problem.

But Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi, two of California's most celebrated chefs, are determined to make a difference with their new breed of fast food which promises something healthier, delicious and nutritious at a price people can afford. Even Aqeela Sherrills, a former gang member, who once brokered a peace deal between the notorious Bloods and Crips gangs in the ‘90s has taken on this new fight against obesity. With Nina he hits the streets in his food truck, delivering free fruit smoothies and spreading the word about healthy eating to a young generation hoping for bright future.

Rageh Omaar presents a series in which ITV News journalists contribute in-depth reports from around the world on the stories behind the headlines.

News features from around the world. Juliet Bremner visits Portugal to meet the men risking their lives to fish for a prized Portuguese delicacy - the goose barnacle. Charlene White meets the hopeful competitors at Africa's first ever Ice Hockey Championship in Morocco. Penny Marshall is in France to discover whether a pioneering new law compelling supermarkets to redistribute edible food waste could prevent perfectly good food from ending up rotting in the bin.

Fronted by Rageh Omaar, ITV News's award-winning team of specialist journalists contribute in-depth reports from around the world and the stories behind the headlines.

The following reports will air in this programme:

AUSTRIA – James Mates

Could Austria become the first European country since World War II to democratically elect a far-right president? The polls show Norbert Hofer neck-and-neck with progressive opponent Alexander Van Der Bellen, who won the presidential election in May by a slim margin. Hofer's hopes have been reignited after the country's constitutional court decided to annul the election outcome after irregularities in the process were revealed and has now set a re-run for November. James Mates travels to Vienna and the surrounding countryside to explore the opposing perspectives dividing Austrian society. Could this lead the country to be the next member state to turn its back on the European Union?

TANZANIA – John Ray

In Tanzania on Africa's east coast, criminal gangs are increasingly using explosives to stun and kill fish - allowing easy collection and larger hauls. Yet their methods are having a devastating effect on the local ecosystem and entail potentially fatal consequences for the fishermen involved. Records reveal that there have been 8,700 explosions in just 14 months, resulting in thousands of metres of East Africa's most pristine coral reefs being destroyed. John Ray travels to the markets of Tanzania where dynamite is freely available and meets a fisherman who lost his hands to this dangerous and destructive practice.

ESTONIA: SPLIT BY A BORDER - Simon Harris

The Seto people in South East Estonia are one of the last folk cultures in Europe and are fighting to preserve their unique way of life. Simon Harris visits them on one of their most important religious holidays where they feast on the graves of their ancestors. Dressed in brightly coloured clothes, the Setos perform their traditional polyphonic songs, a tradition so prized it's protected by UNESCO. But the Seto culture is under threat as the border with Russia runs directly through their homeland, splitting their community and forcing many Setos to disperse across Estonia. With their numbers dwindling, the future of this small community hangs in the balance.

Rageh Omaar presents the current affairs show featuring several in-depth reports from around the world. In an exclusive interview for British television, Robert Moore meets Albert Woodfox, America's longest serving solitary confinement prisoner. Noreena Hertz is in Iceland, which has topped the Gender Equality Index for the last six years, to explore why women apparently fare better there than anywhere else in the world. Dan Rivers is on the remote and stunning Norfolk Island, where an end to years of self-governance has sparked outrage among some of the inhabitants.

Current affairs magazine show presented by Rageh Omaar, featuring in-depth reports from around the world. One year after the end of China's one child policy, Debi Edward explores the impact of the controversial law, and meets the women who now have the chance of having a longed-for second child. As President Obama prepares to leave the White House, Emma Murphy travels to a pop-up hospital in a remote corner of Virginia to witness the devastating effects the US healthcare system has had on generations of Americans. Rachel Younger visits the Belgian city of Geel, where an unusual mental health care programme sees patients living not in hospitals but as guests of families.

Fronted by Rageh Omaar, ITV News's award-winning team of specialist journalists contribute in-depth reports from around the world and the stories behind the headlines.

The following reports will air in this programme:

TURKEY – PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN: THE MOST SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT? - RAGEH OMAAR

Rageh Omaar travels to Turkey to gain a deeper understanding of the man some call the world's most successful democratic politician – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A successfully fought referendum recently gave him sweeping new powers, potentially extending his Presidency until 2029. For decades Turkey has been seen as the bridge between Europe and the Middle East, but Erdoğan's expanded powers, which include the ability to bring back the death penalty, suggest that that gap between the continents is widening even further. Almost a year on from the failed coup to topple him, Rageh visits Istanbul, a divided city, to discover how President Erdoğan has gone from overcoming a hostile takeover to convince an entire nation to hand him even more authority.

BALI – THE SHACKLING OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS - DEBI EDWARD

In Indonesia, severely mentally ill people are shackled by their families in sheds, small rooms and back yards, sometimes for years on end. A lack of accessible and affordable mental health services, and a high level of superstition in the country, has resulted in up to 18,000 individuals being subjected to this treatment, say Human Rights Watch. Debi Edward travels to the Indonesian island of Bali, where she meets some of the patients who have been locked up and tethered, including one man chained by his leg in a dark room and kept completely naked for his own safety. Debi discovers why many families resort to shackling, and what is being done to help stop this archaic practice.

POLAND – 35 YEARS ON FROM THE RISE OF SOLIDARITY – TIM EWART

Thirty-five years since he was ITN's Warsaw Correspondent, Tim Ewart returns to Poland on his final assignment before he retires, to discover how the country has changed since he last set foot on Polish soil. In 1982 Tim covered the rise of the anti-Communist trade union group Solidarity which helped bring an end to the Communist control of Eastern Europe. He retraces the steps he made three decades ago, and travels to Gdansk to meet Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity's leader and former President of Poland. Tim reunites with his old team – his own translators, cameraman and soundman – in the old Communist restaurant they used to go to, and tracks down some of the Solidarity supporters he interviewed in the '80s. Yet, as Tim discovers, Poland is still a country of protest. This time however, it is the right-wing reforms of the ruling Law and Justice Party, which are sparking demonstrations throughout the country. As Tim discovers, history has a habit of repeating itself.

Just days after his inauguration, President Trump asked what the hell is going on in in Chicago? In the windy city, the murder rate has surged in the past few years. Penny Marshall discovers that solving Chicago's gun crime problem is a complex and highly divisive issue. Steve Scott is in Berlin to meet former East German athletes who were subjected to state-sponsored doping in the 1970s and 80s, and hears how the drugs they took, often without their knowledge, have had chronic life-changing effects. Nina Nannar travels to the Moroccan desert city of Ouarzazate - which has had a starring role in hundreds of movies and TV series from Gladiator to Game of Thrones - to find out what life is like living on a real-life film set.

Geraint Vincent travels to Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine, which three years ago was taken over by Russian-backed separatists and is now an illegal quasi-Russian state, self-proclaimed as the 'Donetsk People's Republic'. Penny Marshall visits the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a woman, to meet those who live with the threat of violence on a daily basis. Nearly a year on from the failed Turkish coup, Rageh Omaar travels to Istanbul to find out how President Erdogan has gone from avoiding a hostile takeover to persuading voters to grant him sweeping new powers.

John Ray is in Malawi where physical assaults against people with albinism have increased rapidly in recent years, and he meets those who have survived some of the most savage attacks. Dan Rivers travels to the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea, which is rapidly shrinking, causing sinkholes and disastrous effects for the area's tourism and natural environment. Juliet Bremner visits the former Soviet republic of Armenia, a small country with a big claim to fame - it dominates the world at chess.

Rageh Omaar presents more fascinating and revealing stories from around the world. Neil Connery visits the Champagne region of France to find out what the future holds for the country and its new president Emmanuel Macron, the youngest French head of state since Napoleon. Dan Rivers spends time on the set of a popular Middle Eastern drama made in Syria, to find out how the TV industry is alive and thriving despite the war. John Irvine travels to the Holy City of Jerusalem to see if restorations on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre have helped restore relations between the Christian denominations that run the Church.

CATALONIA – JAMES MATES

After recent turmoil in Catalonia revealed the depth of divisions between the Catalan government in Barcelona and the Spanish authorities in Madrid, Europe Editor James Mates asks whether there really is a desire for independence in the majority of Catalan homes. He also investigates whether the recent actions of the national government have pushed the pressure for an independence vote to critical, and looks into the history behind the movement that could reshape Spain as we know it.

SATIRE AND TRUMP – MARTIN GEISSLER

What happens when reality is too surreal for satire? One year on from the US election, correspondent Martin Geissler travels to New York to explore how American satirists and comedians have dealt with the Trump administration. Martin meets Trump impersonators, political cartoonists and satirists to ask whether we are living in the golden age of political comedy.

THE RAREST PASTA IN THE WORLD – MARY NIGHTINGALE

Mary Nightingale travels to a tiny village in Sardinia to meet Paola Abriani, a 62 year old grandmother who can make su filindeu (‘threads of God') – the rarest pasta in the world. It's a family tradition. Paola is one of only three women who can make it - the other two are her niece and sister-in-law. Last year, a team of engineers from Barilla pasta came to see if they could reproduce her technique with a machine, but they couldn't. The sacred dish has only been served to the faithful who complete a 20-mile pilgrimage on foot or horseback from Nuoro to the village of Lula for the biannual Feast of San Francesco. Mary follows the 1,500 pilgrims as they descend on Lula, to discovers what makes this delicate pasta so special.

Juliet Bremner examines a battle over the diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease in New York state, and Chris Ship explores how Canadians view themselves.

Rageh Omaar presents the current affairs series featuring in-depth reports from around the world. Alok Jha visits the forests and parks of Wyoming to explore the science behind the many wild fires that have raged across the western United States this past summer. Julie Etchingham returns to the city of Mostar, twenty years after reporting from there during the Bosnian war, to discover how the city has tried to heal the ethnic divisions brought to the fore by the conflict. Emma Murphy investigates Moldova to see the central role that the country's wine is playing in a complex geo-political game between Russia and the West.

Rageh Omaar presents the current affairs series. John Ray revisits Sierra Leone, three months after torrential rains triggered a devastating mudslide that claimed over 1,000 lives. John Irvine investigates a local controversy surrounding India's famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal. Critics believe the row has become emblematic of growing Hindu nationalism encouraged by the government to the detriment of Muslims in India. Debi Edward meets the Mongolians conquering Japan's most traditional sport - sumo.

Three months ago, the British Virgin Islands were devastated when Hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean. Penny Marshall was one of the first journalists to report from the archipelago, and she returns to see how the islanders are trying to rebuild their wrecked communities and vital tourist industry. Joel Hills is given rare access to Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit in Seattle, to ask who is responsible for preventing cyber-attacks and to explore the issue of state-sponsored hacking. Rageh Omaar travels to his family's home country, Somaliland, which could become the first state in Africa to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation.

This time, John Ray explores the sensitive issue of post-apartheid land redistribution in South Africa, which has sparked an outpouring of hope and fear. Debi Edward speaks to families torn apart during the Korean war, now desperately hoping to be reunited with their loved ones in the North. And Penny Marshall travels to rural Albania to meet the last remaining ‘sworn virgins' - women who have agreed to live their whole lives as men.

In this week's episode, Lucrezia Millarini travels to Poland, where the government is trying to tighten its already very restrictive abortion laws. Rageh Omaar is in Israel on its 70th birthday to meet conscientious objectors risking prison sentences for their refusal to serve in the Israeli army. And Nina Nannar is in Los Angeles to learn whether insects could be the next big food trend in Europe.

In this third episode, Martin Geissler is in Vice President Mike Pence's home state of Indiana to find out just who he is and why this deeply religious family man has stuck by President Trump. Meanwhile Richard Pallot is in Norway, where half of new car sales are electric, to discover what lessons we can learn in the UK. And Neil Connery bears witness to the final days of the ancient Turkish city of Hasankeyf, which is set to be flooded under 60 meters of water.

The US economy and stock market is booming, but homelessness is rising. ITV's Washington correspondent Robert Moore travels across America to meet those living on the street.

A year on from the remarkable rise of Emmanuel Macron, which swept grassroots movement 'La Republique En Marche!' to power, Allegra Stratton returns to meet a new wave of citizen politicians promising to remake France. Plus, as we battle a rise in opioid abuse in the UK, Geraint Vincent travels to Portugal to see what can be learnt from their pioneering approach to the war on drugs.

James Mates returns to Greece, three months on from the devastating fires which killed almost 100 people in the town of Mati. Rohit Kachroo is in Serbia attending a Russian-inspired 'military patriotic' youth camp that hopes to strengthen ties between this former Yugoslavian state and close friend and ally, Russia. Charlene White travels to Budapest, home of this year's EuroSkills Championships, to meet the British joiners, engineers and restaurant staff competing to be the best in Europe.

This time, as the NHS prepares to start offering a more accurate blood test for Down's Syndrome to expectant parents in England, Nina Hossain is in Denmark, where the same test has been available for a year. Nina explores a unique partnership between hospitals and families, which aims to provide more information about raising a child with Down's. Nearly thirty years after the city's last serious earthquake Geraint Vincent hears how San Franciscans are preparing for the next seismic shock. And Peter Smith travels to Berlin to explore 'Free Body Culture' and other intriguing aspects of the German phenomenon of 'Ostalgie' - the sentimental nostalgia for Communist East Germany.

Rageh Omaar travels to Genoa to investigate the collapse of the Morandi Bridge. Romilly Weeks is in Moscow, to find out whether the renewed popularity of medical leeches reveals problems in Russia's healthcare system. And as we approach the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War One, John Irvine travels from France to Belgium to find out whether many lives could have been saved in the final hours of the Great War.

Juliet Bremner travels to a small town in North Carolina, to meet troubled ex-soldiers enrolled in a Veteran Treatment court. A year on from the end of Mugabe's reign in Zimbabwe, John Ray returns to see just what has and hasn't change. And Tom Clarke visits 'Nemo's Garden' in Italy, where they're growing crops underwater. Could this be the future of farming in a world growing ever scarce of resources?

China was the first country in the world to declare internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Debi Edward visits one of the country's 300 treatment clinics, trying to cure patients with military-style bootcamps for children, teens and adults. Neil Connery travels to Madrid to meet Venezuelans who've fled the economic crisis in their country and Rageh Omaar explores the fascinating resurgence of Viking culture in Denmark.

This time James Mates profiles Viktor Orbán's right wing populist government in Hungary ahead of the 2019 European elections. John Irvine visits Egypt's latest mega-project, Sisi's £35 billion new capital city 30 miles east of ancient Cairo, the first phase of which is set to open this year but for now is still under construction. And Nina Nannar speaks to the female stars of the stunt industry - as their roles and numbers increase. But with new threats of technology, robots and CGI - what does the future these women have fought so hard for look like?

This time, Neil Connery asks, ‘What next for the Kurds?' As the largest stateless nation in the world comes to a crossroads. He meets female Peshmerga fighters and celebrates Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, alongside 25,000 people in the mountains. Rachel Younger visits the unique Danish community of Christiania, which prides itself on consensus and sustainability but is increasingly becoming an area of tension. And Rebecca Barry travels to Sweden to meet the people getting microchips put under their skin to use as personal ID badges or even as self-scanning credit cards. She visits an office where 10 per cent of the workforce are now chipped and asks if this is the future.

Paul Davies returns to Croatia, 28 years after his award-winning reports on the siege of Dubrovnik to discover how much has changed for this UNESCO world-heritage site and tourist hotspot. Emma Murphy ventures outside of her comfort zone to the 'National Radio Quiet Zone' in West Virginia. And Penny Marshall travels to Gothenburg and Stockholm to observe how the famously open-minded Swedes are tackling the final taboo: Death.

Steve Scott travels to Jamaica to meet the Reggae Girlz. The island's football team for the women's World Cup qualified against the odds and now the whole country is behind them. Rageh Omaar spends time with the Russian families who have received the Order of Parental Glory - awarded to Russia's largest - and as the President would have it - most patriotic families. Plus, Debi Edward explores the increasingly popular world of pigeon racing in China.

Neil Connery visits the defunct Chernobyl nuclear reactor, while survivors of the 1986 accident give their take on Ukraine's booming trade in disaster tourism. Juliet Bremner joins the locals in Chennai battling over the city's limited supplies of water and looks at some of the solutions put forward by authorities, while Kylie Pentelow reports on a new divorce law in Denmark.

Carl Dinnen investigates the controversial use by police in Detroit of facial recognition software, which is said to misidentify African-American faces at higher rates than white ones. Tom Clarke travels to Colombia to meet a man fighting to save South America's elusive pink river dolphins from extinction, while Lucrezia Milarini is in Berlin, where the city council has approved drastic measures to curb surging rents. Current affairs programme, presented by Rageh Omaar.

Tom Clarke travels to Greenland to find out what it was about the country that caught Donald Trump's eye when earlier this year he suggested that America might want to buy the island from Denmark.

Richard Pallot travels to Amsterdam to investigate how party-tourism is making the city unbearable for many of the locals. The red light district is often overwhelmed by huge crowds and the authorities now issue on the spot fines to drunken and stoned visitors that litter the streets at night.

Plus, Nina Nannar is in Paris trying out a ‘rage room', the new global craze of releasing tension through destruction.

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Romanian revolution, Paul Davies returns to Bucharest, where he and the ITN team were the only international reporters to gain access to the country's main TV station as the revolution gained momentum. He returns to the television studio he reported from meeting old friends, key players in the uprising and listens as survivors recount their disappointment in the uprising's outcome.

Jerusalem has an unusual problem... there are not enough places to bury their dead. For Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, its soil is sacred. The city needs more than 4,000 new graves every year. With sought-after plots costing tens of thousands of pounds, the latest solution is to dig downwards – John Irvine visits the new six-storey underground burial site.

And Penny Marshall spends time with British Christian missionary Pete Portal and his South African wife Sarah who run two safe houses and rehabilitation centres in the Cape Flat's troubled Manenberg district. Their Tree of Life church welcomes in gangsters and drug addicts seeking a cleaner life.

Rageh Omaar presents reports from around the world. Rohit Kachroo is in Puerto Rico to discover what people feel about the possibility of their country becoming the 51st state of America, Juliet Bremner explores how extreme surfing has transformed the Portuguese seaside town of Nazare, and Debi Edward attends an ice and snow sculpture festival in China.

John Irvine visits the Sea of Galilee, which is full of fresh water once again.

Geraint Vincent heads to Warsaw to explore how Poland and the EU are increasingly at odds when it comes to the rule of law and human rights, while Dan Rivers is in Georgia speaking to the country's Prime Minister about her plans for transforming one of the former Soviet Union's flagship spa resorts. Emma Murphy travels to California - the prime location for catching a glimpse of grey whales as they make their annual migration up the US West Coast.

ITV's international current affairs series with Rageh Omaar continues. This time Lucy Watson is in Bosnia, 25 years after the Srebrenica genocide.

Lucrezia Millarini travels to the Spanish island of Ibiza to find out how they might be able to welcome back British tourists this summer. Steve Scott travels to Qatar to see why the falcon continues to be the most highly prized and looked-after bird in the Gulf. Plus, Rageh Omaar is in Montenegro, home to some of Europe's last free-flowing bodies of water, to find out if small hydropower plants that promise cleaner energy also be polluting the pristine waterways of this Balkan state.

As India prepares to mark 75 years since partition this August, Ria Chatterjee travels to New Delhi to explore intensifying divisions between Hindus and Muslims in the country. Nina Nannar is in Los Angeles asking whether the trillion-dollar wellness industry, offering treatments like oxygen tanks, ice baths, infrared lamps and intravenous nutrients, really can offer people a happier and healthier life.

Ria Chatterjee investigates dowry abuse in India, a marriage custom which is banned there but still rife and is leading some women to take their own lives. Elsewhere, Antoine Allen is in Sweden looking at how the country is tackling an alarming rise of gun violence.

John Ray travels to Kenya's capital Nairobi to investigate how the country is coping with a growing economic crisis caused in part by the war in Ukraine and global inflation. Daniel Hewitt visits the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a province of France since the 18th century, to find out why violence erupted on the streets earlier this year.

Neil Connery heads to Poland to find how the country is coping with caring for the millions of refugees who crossed into the country when the war in neighbouring Ukraine started. Elsewhere, Deborah Cohen is in Spain, where the country is suffering its driest climate in more than 1,000 years. As water grows scarcer, she learns that some are using illegal means to tap into sources deep below the surface.

John Ray investigates the devastating affects flooding has had in Kenya's great lakes region, where swelling waters have swallowed schools, villages and whole forests. Geraint Vincent travels to Bulgaria to meet an architect fighting to save the greatest icon to the country's communist past, as it re-evaluates its relationship with Soviet-era monuments and statues. And, In the remote forests of Romania, Romilly Weeks is on the hunt to find Europe's largest wild mammal, the bison.

Rageh Omaar travels to Taiwan, where tensions between the island state and China, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province, are at an all-time high. Lucy Watson is in the West Bank following the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead while covering a raid by the Israel Defence Force, while Rachel Younger heads to Germany where businesses, local governments and households have been asked to slash energy consumption to tackle a looming energy crisis caused by the country previous reliance on Russian gas - but how solid is resolve there in the face of the hardship that restrictions may bring?

A decade has passed since shockwaves reverberated around the world at the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut. Robert Moore reported on the massacre at the time and returns to the local town of Newtown to meet two parents who lost children that day.

Dan Rivers returns to Australia three years after the country experienced its worst bushfires on record to catch-up with residents trying to return to normal life and finds out how those who volunteered to fight the fires have been preparing for more extreme weather. Elsewhere, John Ray investigates the story of Sally Hafez, a mother of two who walked into a Beirut bank brandishing a toy pistol and demanding the withdrawal of $14,000 of her own money, and Rageh travels to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, a place which has become another front line in the migrant crisis.

Peter Smith reports from Turkey near the epicentre of the deadly earthquake that has cost tens of thousands of lives, and Rageh Omaar travels to South Africa to uncover the truth about the country's devastating energy crisis. Elsewhere, Rebecca Barry is in New York, another US state that has made recreational use of cannabis legal in recent months, as it prepare to hand out its first licenses to sell the drug.

James Mates investigates a controversial euthanasia law in Portugal, Dan Rivers explores the experience of Australia's Indigenous population, and Sangita Lai reports from Denmark.

Rhys Williams investigates the deadly rail disaster in Greece in February, when an InterCity passenger train collided head-on with a freight train, killing 57 people. He meets victims, bereaved families and those in the industry who issued multiple warnings in the lead up to the disaster. Elsewhere in a Mexico City suburb, Rageh Omaar visits the altar of 'Santa Muerte' or Holy Death, a 21st century deity that accepts and nurtures the outcasts who feel neglected and rejected by mainstream religion.

Rageh Omaar explores a controversial new train system in Mexico, Dan Rivers probes a new law in Tennessee, and Rachel Townsend examines a new approach to later life care in France.

Lucy Watson is in the capital city of Rome where she gains special access to one of Italy's most infamous prisons as it takes a bold step to accommodate trans women prisoners. Elsewhere, Nina Nannar is in the mountains of Bulgaria discovering how the ancient pagan tradition of firewalking is being kept alive.

Rohit Kachroo travels to East London and finds a grieving community still seeking answers in the wake of the deaths of 21 teenagers in a South African nightclub. Ellie Pitt examines a new Spanish law that requires employers to give paid 'menstrual leave" to women who suffer from disabling periods, and Amy Lewis travels to Slovenia to explore how the country is trying to shake off its past.

Amanda Walker travels to Centralia - a small town near Seattle - to witness doctors working on a new treatment for addicts of America's deadly fentanyl epidemic. Rohit Kachroo is in Turkey to meet the Russians who've fled the war back home trying to find a new place to call home, and Julie Etchingham is in Berlin to travel back in time with the archives of the Stasi secret police.

Rageh Omaar returns with Rachel Younger to revisit Turkey and speak to those who would rather live in a tent than risk living in an apartment and see the rubble possibly filled with harmful toxins that has piled up a year on from a deadly earthquake.

Rageh Omaar returns to Lithuania to speak to the citizens of the country offering unwavering support to Ukraine two years on from Russia's invasion. Louise Scott is in Sardinia to investigate how low birth rates are contributing to Italy's shrinking population and learns how a lack of jobs and good travel connections are putting young people off staying in the area to start a family. Debi Edward travels to Karachi, Pakistan, to the country's largest painted truck hub to meet the artists and drivers who make the decorative vehicles their business.

Dan Rivers reports from the Bahamas, one of the most vulnerable island nations when it comes to climate change, and Martin Stew investigates Norway's sustainable construction, asking how it could go mainstream. Nina Nannar meets a man who has gone through life changing leg-lengthening surgery to gain three inches in height in Los Angeles.

James Mates travels to Lithuania to meet with Russian opposition activists who are regrouping after the incarceration and death of Alexei Navalny and deciding what's next for those who stand against Putin. Antoine Allen is in Mayotte in the Indian ocean where the EU's small boats' immigration crisis threatens to destabilise the nation and Harry Horton joins the inaugural voyage of the new Brussels-Prague sleeper train and asks whether continental sleepers can compete with budget airlines.