Assignment

Every week in Assignment, BBC reporters investigate the events shaping our world. Assignment takes you to places in the news and tells the stories of the people living there.

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Cold-calling Siberia
How has Putin's war against Ukraine affected one remote city in Siberia?
01 Dec 2022,26 mins
Trouble in Taiwan?
What do Taiwanese people think about the increased rhetoric from China in recent months?
24 Nov 2022,26 mins
China's accidental activists
The women battling the Chinese state after their loved ones were jailed as dissidents
17 Nov 2022,26 mins
Iraq: Under poisoned skies
The toxic impact of gas flaring on people and the environment in southern Iraq
10 Nov 2022,26 mins
America’s Dropbox Babies
America’s Safe Haven laws for new-born babies – an alternative to abortion?
03 Nov 2022,26 mins
Svalbard’s climate change fight
Svalbard is estimated to be heating at six times the global average
27 Oct 2022,26 mins
The brain drain
The ‘brain drain’ of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK
20 Oct 2022,26 mins
Bye-bye Baguette?
The bakers and farmers trying to wean Senegal off imported wheat.
13 Oct 2022,26 mins
Leicester: Behind the divide
What's behind the recent tensions between Hindi and Muslim communities in Leicester?
06 Oct 2022,26 mins
Argentina: Life with hyperinflation
Living with hyperinflation in Argentina – how do people cope with everyday life?
29 Sep 2022,26 mins
A ‘Me Too’ moment for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews?
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews struggle to come to terms with child sex abuse scandals
22 Sep 2022,26 mins
The Texas Tank: A prison radio station changing lives
A radio station at a Texan prison is creating community and changing inmates' lives
08 Sep 2022,26 mins
What next for School no 20?
What’s it like to be a teenager in Ukraine? School leavers in Chernihiv tell it how it is
01 Sep 2022,26 mins
Lacrosse: Reclaiming the Creator’s game
Why lacrosse is much more than just a game for Native Americans
25 Aug 2022,26 mins
Moldova - East or West?
This former Soviet republic faces both east and west
18 Aug 2022,26 mins
After the ‘Narco-President’: Rebuilding hope in Honduras
When the president stands accused of drug trafficking, what hope is there?
11 Aug 2022,26 mins
Ukraine: Collaboration and resistance
The dilemma facing the citizens of Kherson
04 Aug 2022,26 mins
The return of the tigers
Tigers are making a remarkable comeback in Nepal
28 Jul 2022,26 mins
Shanghai lockdown
How covid changed China’s commercial capital
21 Jul 2022,26 mins
Ukraine war: The man who came back from the dead
How one man survived to bear witness to one of the worst atrocities of the war in Ukraine
14 Jul 2022,26 mins
Ukraine war stories
Assignment follows the stories of four young women whose lives have been changed by war
07 Jul 2022,26 mins
Ethiopia’s disinformation war
Searching for the truth about the conflict in Tigray
30 Jun 2022,26 mins
Kenya's election hustle
The enterprising young Kenyans making money from a political scramble for power
23 Jun 2022,26 mins
Ukraine’s homegrown harvest
A village to village network to help grown food in Ukraine
16 Jun 2022,26 mins
Evacuated to Russia
Has Russia rescued a million Ukrainian refugees? Or deported them in another war crime?
09 Jun 2022,26 mins
Ukraine: The disinformation war
British academics accused of sharing Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine
02 Jun 2022,26 mins
When rape becomes a crime
Are tougher sentences for rapists in Senegal deterring sexual violence against women?
26 May 2022,26 mins
Love-bombing Estonia’s Russian speakers
Can music and culture help unite Estonia?
19 May 2022,26 mins
Cambodia: Returning the gods
Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors
12 May 2022,26 mins
Mexico: The Yaqui fight back
Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people
05 May 2022,26 mins