Unreported World S09E02 · USA: The Devil's Highway

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Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.

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1. 1 1. Egypt's Rubbish People2008-02-08Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class
2. 2 2. USA: The Devil's Highway2008-02-15Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
3. 3 3. Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State2008-02-22Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
4. 4 4. Russia: Railway of Bones2008-02-29Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suic
5. 5 5. Bangladesh: The Drowning Country2008-03-07Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
6. 6 6. Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed2008-03-14Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
7. 7 7. Gaza: Reign of the Rockets2008-03-28Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
8. 8 8. Benin: Voodoo Children2008-04-04Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
9. 9 9. Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse2008-04-11Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
10. 10 10. Kenya's Human Time Bomb2008-04-18Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
11. 11 11. South Africa: Body Parts for Sale2008-10-17Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part o
12. 12 12. India: God's Own Country2008-10-24Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
13. 13 13. Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost2008-10-31Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
14. 14 14. Paraguay's Painful Harvest2008-11-07Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost t
15. 15 15. Philippines' Dirty War2008-11-14Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of stud
16. 16 16. Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs2008-11-21Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
17. 17 17. Thailand: Lessons in Terror2008-12-05Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
18. 18 18. Yemen: Sea of Tears2008-12-12Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Edward Watts reveal an unseen human catastrophe unfolding in Yemen as thousands of desperate refugees fleeing the chaos and carnage in the Horn
19. 19 19. Mexico: Seven Days in Hell2008-12-19This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.