The Invisible People. Unreported World visits Lebanon to reveal the plight of some of the most vulnerable refugees fleeing the war in Syria: disabled people, many of whom are children.

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Vietnam's Dog Snatchers.Unreported World investigates how dog thieves are stealing thousands of pet dogs from family homes in Vietnam to meet the demand for dog meat.

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Surviving Ebola. Unreported World provides a unique view of what life is like for the health workers battling Ebola in Sierra Leone and the families affected by the virus.

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Africa's Drug Scandal. Cancer now kills more people in Africa than malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Daniel Bogado travel to Senegal to reveal how patients across the continent are being deprived of the single most important drug for relieving the pain of cancer - morphine - despite governments having the funds to purchase supplies.

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Jamaica's Underground Gays.In an eye-opening episode, reporter Ade Adepitan and director Andrew Careter travel to Kingston to investigate the growth of homophobic attacks in Jamaica and to meet the gay and transgender group who've ended up living in a storm drain, where they suffer shocking violence, attacks and insults because of their sexuality.

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Neighbours At War. Krisnan Guru-Murthy and director Adam Pletts manage to film on both sides of the lines in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, where Sunni Muslim fighters are besieging an Alawite neighbourhood in a conflict mirroring that happening in Syria.Guru-Murthy uncovers a vicious low-level war of sniping, assassinations and kneecappings, and meets commanders and gunmen who revel in killing their neighbours, and whose hate has taken over their lives.

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The Cursed Twins. Unreported World visits a remote area of Madagascar, where the dead make the rules.A set of taboos, handed down from long-dead ancestors, controls what you eat, when you work and every aspect of how you behave.Reporter Kiki King and director David Fuller visit the town of Mananjary, on the isolated east coast, to reveal how one taboo against twins leads to children being abandoned and mothers becoming outcasts.

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Carjack City. At least 30 vehicles are carjacked every day in South Africa. The country's cars are routinely fitted with satellite trackers, so that if they're carjacked by theives an armed response unit can track them.Reporter Marcel Theroux and director James Brabazon visit the country's capital, Pretoria where this type of crime is acute.

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Kickboxing Kids. This powerful episode documents the lives of Thai children as young as seven who fight in the brutal sport of Muay Thai, knocking out their opponents with elbows, knees and fists.It can leave the kids brain damaged, but adult gambling on these unpredictable fights is big business, and their families put enormous pressure on the kids to fight and win.Reporter Mary-Ann Ochota and director Daniel Bogado follow 11-year old Nat Thanarak, one of the best child boxers in the north of the country, as he prepares for the biggest match of his career so far, against a 12-year old champion from another province.

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Dancing In the Danger Zone. Reporter Evan Williams and director Marcel Mettelsiefen meet the extraordinary young dancers and musicians at Iraq's only music and ballet school, who are battling to keep their art alive against the rising tide of sectarian violence in Baghdad.

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