The Uzbin Valley attack by Taliban forces was one of the most notorious ambushes of the war in Afghanistan. Mixing stunning animation with interviews, analysis and original footage, ’Ambush’ recreates what happened that fateful day.
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Anti-depressants, tranquillisers and sleeping pills are some of the most prescribed medicines in the world with a record number of us on the ’happy pills’. Many of these drugs come with a range of serious side effects. But is is their association with violence and suicide that has been most controversial.
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Every year, thousands of American teenagers are kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad on their parents’ orders.
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We investigate the commercialization of the natural world. Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets.
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A new type of activism is emerging that uses an unusual weapon to condemn injustice; laughter. We follow some of this new generation of activists to see what they do and if it works.
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Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America.
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The market for human research has not escaped the financial crisis: French companies testing new medicine have seen a 20% average fall in activity. As in many other affected industries around the world today, the cause can be attributed to offshoring. Many major pharmaceutical companies now carry out their clinical testing in emerging countries; and India is the epicentre.
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It’s a paradox. Never before have we worked more efficiently. Never before have we saved time with more sophisticated technologies. But nearly everyone feels they don’t have enough time. It seems that the same technology invented to make our life easier, is now enslaving us.
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