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- People and Power examines the pursuit and arrest of former Serbian general Ratko Mladic for war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars.
- People and Power investigates whether the Vatican Bank is involved in money laundering.
- Twenty-six American CIA operatives stand accused of the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from the streets of Milan. The defendants, including an Air Force colonel and two CIA station chiefs, are being tried in absentia at the Milan Palace of Justice for the 2003 abduction of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. The CIA tactic under scrutiny is called 'extraordinary rendition', and it is the first time the CIA will go to trial for its use. 'Extraordinary rendition' involves the capture of a terrorism suspect in one country and his transfer not to the US, but to a third country for interrogation - without court orders or judicial oversight.The Italian prosecutors claim Nasr was taken to US bases in Italy and Germany before being taken to Cairo, Egypt. Nasr says he was tortured while imprisoned for four years in Cairo. In many cases, including this one, the suspects have said they were tortured, and their claims are supported by the evidence of international human rights organisations. Financial activist, Max Keiser, has been on the trail of the kidnappers in Milan, and he reveals how disregarding the rule of law could prove a costly business.
- This People & Power investigation comes as World Bank officials have called for the resignation of its president, Paul Wolfowitz. He is under fire for allegations of inside favouritism - including approving a salary of £180,000 for his girlfriend Shaha Riza. He has hired Clinton's lawyer to defend him, as he awaits his fate from the board set up to investigate him. Just this week one of his closest advisers, Kevin Kellems, has announced his resignation. Meanwhile, we scrutinise the organisation Wolfowitz heads, and its alleged domination by the US. In 1947, the World Bank gave its first loan - $250 million for France's post-war construction. Since then, it has grown to 185 member governments and provides loans and development assistance to poor countries, with the aim of poverty reduction. While the bank's clients are almost exclusively developing countries, the World Bank is controlled primarily by developed countries. Speaking to aid and democracy experts, as well those receiving the loans, Max Keiser take a takes a colourful look at their reality. The poorer countries certainly rely on these loans, but when it comes to alleviating their poverty, can they really bank on it? Does it really help alleviate poverty? Max Keiser wants to know. In a report for People & Power, he investigates the conditions that come with a World Bank loan. Can it truly be said that the World Bank is increasing poverty?
- Is the world running out of oil? Peak oil theory is that any oil field will increase output every year until it hits a peak, a turning point from which output declines until the field is exhausted. Once a field has peaked, it is impossible to increase output. Official projections from the likes of the US Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency forecast demand for oil to rise to between 116 and 120 million barrels of oil per day. Oil production, however, seems to have stalled at about 85 million barrels per day. Despite record high oil prices, output is not increasing. Is this because we have hit peak global oil? Max Keiser sets out on a journey to discover the answer. He also searches for answers to the question of whether it is possible to mitigate the effects of a sharp decline in global oil production.
- 2007–TV EpisodeThe story behind the hunt for Ratko Mladic, Europe's most wanted man since 1995 when he was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal, until May 2011 when he was arrested in the small Serbian village of Lazarevo .
- 2007–TV Episode
- Max Keiser examines the carry trade, a financial instrument that central bankers and politicians around the world are increasingly blaming for global asset bubbles. Asset bubbles, they say, are more likely to burst the bigger they get. Keiser travels to Iceland to demonstrate how this remarkable trade can enable a nation of less than 300,000 to buy up tens of billions of dollars in British assets.
- Max Keiser examines the Private Finance Initiatives being used to deliver public investment in the UK.
- Max Keiser looks at the financial crisis and asks whether Central Bank remedies are penalizing workers and savers. Samah El Shahat also interviews several guests on the financial crisis.
- Carmen Colle is a former steelworker who worked her way up to become a luxury hand-stitcher for some of Europe's top fashion houses. Now she has decided to sue Chanel for alleged counterfeiting. The claim comes after she spotted a cardigan bearing a crochet design which she says her company submitted to Chanel as an idea - and which they turned down.
- People and Power follows the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt as the plan protests against Hosni Mubarak.
- French filmmakers follow a group of Tunisians as they cross the Mediterranean Sea and Italy in order to illegally enter France.
- People and Power investigates allegations of widespread rape committed by the forces of Muammar Gadaffi in Libya.
- People and Power examines the surge in Afghanistan and follows filmmaker John D. McHugh who is embedded with units from the US 4th infantry division in Kandahar.
- People and Power takes a look at the protests in Spain against government imposed austerity measures. They call themselves the "indignants."
- People and Power visits Abbottabad in Pakinstan and examines the death of Osama Bin Laden.
- People and Power follows a group of Kenyan girls who are resisting the traditional practice of female circumcision.
- People and Power investigates how the world's war on drugs is causing unnecessary suffering by restricting access to medical morphine around the world. It looks at morphine distribution in India, Ukraine, and Uganda.
- People and Power examines how investigators are trying to stop dictators who funnel money out of their countries and into private account in the international banking system.
- Investigation on the conflict in South Kordofan, a disputed oil-rich area between Sudan and the recently independent state of Southern Sudan.
- People and Power investigates the plight of Vietnamese children who are trafficked into the UK and forced to work underground in the booming cannabis trade.
- People and Power investigates allegations that for over four decades Spanish government officials sanctioned the abduction of thousands of babies.
- A visit to the areas once occupied by the Tamil Tigers to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.
- Investigation at the Mexican oil company Pemex to see whether it is headed for an accident similar to last year's Deep Water Horizon disaster.
- Interviews with relief workers and survivors at the small port city of Miyako, Japan, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
- Investigation of human rights issues in Uzbekistan and a look at the lives of Uzbeks forced to seek asylum in neighboring countries.
- Beppe's Blog is the story of a primetime comedian come blogger who is giving a voice to millions of Italians and a headache to thousands of Italian politicians.
- Stuart Griffiths, a veteran, who became homeless after leaving the armed forces, now works as a photographer raising awareness for veterans who feel that the military covenant and the government's duty of care is not being upheld.
- An investigation into the trafficking of Nepalese children to work in Indian circuses.
- An investigation into child sex tourism in Madagascar.
- The world's wealthy countries often criticise African nations for corruption -- especially that perpetrated by those among the continent's government and business leaders who abuse their positions by looting tens of billions of dollars in national assets or the profits from state-owned enterprises that could otherwise be use to relieve the plight of some of the world's poorest peoples.
- In April 1994, long-standing tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, the two main ethnic groups in the African state of Rwanda, exploded when the plane of Juvenal Habyarimana, the Hutu president, was shot down. A Hutu militia - along with thousands of ordinary Hutus - massacred more than 800,000 Tutsis. But when the exiled Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) returned to the country as many as two million Hutus, fearing reprisals, fled across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Sixteen years on, many of those Hutus want to return home as part of a reconciliation and repatriation programme sponsored by the UN and the Rwandan government. But what sort of welcome awaits them? Sorious Samura followed some refugees as they returned to Rwanda.
- With exclusive access to President Paul Kagame, Insight TWI's Sorious Samura takes us on a journey through the new Rwanda on the twentieth commemoration of the genocide.
- The precious marine resources of some of the world's poorest people are being targeted by industrial-scale pirate fishing operations, to feed the seafood hungry markets of Europe and Asia. In a special two-part investigation, People and Power set out in 2012, to identify and expose some of those involved in the multi-million dollar trade and to look in particular at its consequences for the impoverished West African nation of Sierra Leone.
- An investigation on how a match-fixer from Singapore, Wilson Raj Perumal, and his criminal syndicate corrupted global football all the way to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
- Sorious Samura takes us to the frontline of the global war against the crippling disease polio, where hopes for a final eradication of the scourge are being undermined by an explosive and deadly new outbreak in Congo-Brazzaville. Polio is on the verge of eradication. Since 1988, years of unprecedented success by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has seen the number of cases around the world decrease by 99 per, but the goal to guarantee the cessation of all 're-established poliovirus transmissions by the end of 2010' has failed. The final one per cent is proving hard to beat. Strains of the virus linger in parts of the developing world, and localised epidemics can still strike unexpectedly. Ten years ago, Congo-Brazzaville thought it had seen the last of polio but since last October, 220 people have died, and a further 368 people are suffering from paralysis. As a regional emergency response operation battles to contain the crisis, Sorious journeys to its epicentre, the coastal city of Pointe-Noire to meet the most recent victims. What will it take to stamp out polio entirely? With the high risk of further spread, Sorious highlights the desperate need to find a solution if dreams of a polio-free world are to be realised.
- Last December, an Al Jazeera network investigation examined shocking claims that the government of Kenya has been running secret police death squads, tasked with assassinating suspected terrorists and criminals. At the time the Kenyan government strongly refuted the allegations but reports and rumours in Kenya about extra-judicial killings have continued to proliferate. Ten months on, People and Power asked Mohammed Ali, one of Kenya's top independent investigative journalists, to find out why. In this deeply worrying film, Ali discovers that mysterious killings are indeed continuing amid a culture of apparent impunity, leaving Kenyan security forces open to suspicions that they are unaccountable and seemingly out of control. He discovers that over 1,500 Kenyan citizens have been killed by the police since 2009, and that statistically, Kenyans are currently five times more likely to be shot by a policeman than a criminal. With often little or no investigation by the Kenyan state into the circumstances surrounding these deaths, he finds evidence to suggest that an increasing number of Kenyan police officers may be complicit in what have been described as summary executions of suspects. Even the Kenyan army, seen by most Kenyans as less corrupt and more trustworthy than the police, is now allegedly implicated in the torture and forced disappearance of terror suspects in the country's northeastern region.
- Every year an unknown number of children - most of them disabled in some way - are murdered in northern Ghana because of the belief that they are in some way possessed by evil spirits set on bringing ill fortune to those around them. The practice is the consequence of ancient traditions and customs and is shaped by poverty and ignorance in remote and often marginalised communities. But it is still infanticide and no less horrifying than the killing of children anywhere. For years NGOs and the Ghanaian authorities have tried advocacy and education in an attempt to eradicate the practice but with only marginal success. Well into the 21st century, Ghana's so-called spirit children are still being killed because they carry the blame for the misfortunes of everyday life. Award-winning Ghanaian investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas is determined to do something to stop this senseless slaughter. In this shocking and remarkable film for People & Power he sets out to track down and identify some of those responsible and to bring them to justice.
- An investigation on the international criminal network of gamblers stemming from Singapore that is undermining the integrity of professional football worldwide.
- A high-profile case of euthanasia has sparked fierce debate in Italy, where the practice is forbidden by the law and the Roman Catholic Church. The film explores the remarkable last wishes of Piergiorgio Welby.
- Italian intelligence agent, Nicola Calipari, was killed in Baghdad on March 4th 2005 at a check-point manned by US soldiers. Calipari was on a mission in Iraq to free Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena.
- Investigation on toxic waste trade to Somalia and how one Italian journalist, Ilaria Alpi, was killed for uncovering an inconvenient truth.
- An investigation on the use of exploited immigrant labor in Italy's famous tomato industry.
- The US locks up more people than any other country in the world, spending over $80bn each year to keep some two million prisoners behind bars. Over the past three decades, tough sentencing laws have contributed to a doubling of the country's prison population, with laws like the 'Three Strikes and You're Out' mandating life sentences for a wide range of crimes.