Global Politics

Episode 1 | Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China

Donald Trump comes to office in 2017 and upends America’s relationship with Beijing. He promises to ‘make China pay’, ...

Educating North Korea | Panorama

Reporter Chris Rogers travels to North Korea, where a university paid for by the west is attempting to open the minds of the secretive state...

Is Greenland for Sale?

US president Donald Trump says he wants the US to take over Greenland. Many people think it will never happen. But could it? If so, how?

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea: Part 1 | Storyville

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to pe...

Nelson Mandela | Icons

At the trial that saw him sent to prison, Mandela made a speech that galvanised international condemnation of Apartheid South Africa. 27 years later t...

How to Brainwash a Million People | Panorama

Panorama reveals how China runs its re-education camps, where more than a million people have been locked up in one of the bigge...

Episode 2 | Clash of the Superpowers: America vs China

As the battle for technological supremacy ramps up, a controversial visit to Taiwan brings the two superpowers closer ...

The Casalee File | Dispatches

A major Berkshire-based tobacco company, The Casalee Group, now called Defco, has been secretly at the heart of the arms trade and breached int...

Our Man in Moscow | Panorama

Panorama follows a year in the life of the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, and his work reporting from one of the most hostile places in t...

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea: Part 2 | Storyville

A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to pe...

Hong Kong: Life Under the Crackdown | Panorama

Reporter Danny Vincent follows those who have lived through Hong Kong's street protest movement, both as activists and reporte...

Episode 2 | India: The Modi Question

A look at the troubled relationship between Indian PM Narendra Modi's government and India's Muslim minority following his re-election i...

Episode 1 | India: The Modi Question

A look at the tensions between Indian PM Narendra Modi and India's Muslim minority, investigating claims about his role in the 2002 riot...

Modi's third term as a coalition | Unspun World with John Simpson

While Narendra Modi expected his party to sweep seats across India as the previous two election, this didn'...

Iran's Unexpected 2024 Election | Unspun World with John Simpson

Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran faces a new upcoming election. Will this election be ri...

Mexico's campaign - violence, drugs, and the US | BBC News

Violence plagued the 2024 Mexican presidential election, setting great expectations up for winner Claudia Sheinbau...

Mexico first female president | BBC News

Claudia Sheinbaum succeeds her mentor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, as the first female President of Mexico. The environmental scien...

Putin: The New Tsar

Documentary revealing the story of Vladimir Putin's extraordinary rise to power - from a lowly KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man and ultimate...

Ukraine Crisis 2022 | Ukraine and Belarus: Uneasy Borders

In February 2022, Russian troops are gathering along Ukrainian borders, and long-standing tensions appear to be gro...

Arctic conflict | BBC News at Ten

The BBC report on the rising tensions in the Arctic between the US, Denmark and Greenland.

Alexander Litvinenko's Murder: The Inside Story | Newsnight

The inside story of the mysterious poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

Episode 3 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya continues her journey through Spain, training with a team of firefighters, and heads to France, witnessing a rocket lau...

Episode 2 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya continues her journey through Germany and into Spain, paragliding over Neuschwanstein Castle and meeting nationalists i...

Episode 1 | Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler

Katya visits Italy and Germany to explore how they're changing in the turbulent new world. She attends the Palio in Siena, jo...

The Rise of the Far-Right

The far-right is surging across Europe. Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to meet the people behind the movements and those fighting to s...

03: Unstoppable | Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

Europe's leaders and their top advisers reveal how the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants on Europe’s shores ...

02: Going for Broke | Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

Europe's leaders and top advisers reveal how the near bankruptcy of Greece threatened the euro itself – and how the...

01: We Quit | Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil

David Cameron's closest advisers reveal how he tried to tackle the Europe question, and his battles at home and in Brussels...

EU Election 2024 - Italy and Germany | BBC News

Italy's confusing initiative to encourage voters, low turnout, SPD's loses in Germany.

EU 2024 - Immigration, war and the economy at stake | BBC News

As results come in from the 2024 EU election, experts discuss what the discernible shift to the right is cause...

Navalny | Storyville

In August 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the military-grade nerve agent implicated in attacks on other oppon...

Weaponising Ukrainian grain exports | Newsnight

Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovkis explains why he thinks Russia is weaponising Ukrainian ...

Ukrainian grain | Outside Source

Ros Atkins gets the heart of the latest result of the crisis in Ukraine involving stores of the global supply of grain.

Russia and NATO | Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

Russia's actions in Crimea and elsewhere have lead to tensions between Russia and NATO, as explored in this report from 2020.

The Annexation of Crimea | Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

In 2014, following Ukraine's pro-Western revolution, Russian special forces occupied and annexed Crimea, formerly ...

2014 Ukranian Revolution | Newsnight

Amongst political turmoil ahead of the 2010 elections, Russian-backed Viktor Yanukovych made a come-back, and was elected as President o...

Putin and the Ukraine 'Orange Revolution' | Putin: The New Tsar

Yushchenko's 2004 electoral victory against Russian-supported Yanukovych was a significant defeat for Putin, ...