Rafah: caught in the crossfire (again)
The city the world is watching. Overflowing with hungry refugees and facing a lethal showdown between Hamas and Israeli forces, Rafah is at the heart of an urgent push for peace. Children are scavengi...
28 Feb 202425min
Are you ever too old to have a baby?
In countries across the world women are deciding to delay motherhood. Increased access to education, more career opportunities and less financial stability means that more and more women are having ch...
27 Feb 202424min
Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars
Sweden is struggling to contain the gang wars that are spilling out onto the streets. Innocent people are being caught in the crossfire while child soldiers carry out dangerous shoot-to-kill missions ...
26 Feb 202423min
Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot
At least three million people died in the Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India. It was one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side. But there is no memorial to them anywhere in the...
23 Feb 202423min
Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
A surgeon in a wheelchair, an indomitable grandmother, and a man taking care of eight cats in a bombed-out flat: just some of people the BBC’s Andrew Harding has met on repeat trips to Ukraine’s front...
22 Feb 202426min
Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?
When #MeToo surfaced in October 2017, it was viewed as a time of change for the US and Hollywood. But in France – another country with a rich cinematic heritage – there was major backlash to allegatio...
21 Feb 202424min
'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes
Hurricanes are among the most dramatic examples of extreme weather. And with climate change making tropical cyclones ever more intense, some scientists are arguing that the way we categorise them does...
20 Feb 202422min
How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'
Demand for ‘Hollywood’ weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, has turned a once-niche Danish pharmaceutical firm into Europe’s most valuable company. As Novo Nordisk’s stock price skyrockets, it’s outs...
19 Feb 202422min
