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BBC News Arabic uncovers the deadly impact of the oil giants' toxic air pollution on children and the planet.

Under Poisoned Skies

Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.

Occupied

BBC investigation reveals the secrets behind some of the world's biggest tea companies.

Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea

Investigation into a highly sophisticated scam involving criminal gangs, modern-day slavery and victims around the world who have lost millions of dollars.

The Pig Butchering Romance Scam

Africa Eye investigates a rise in child sexual abuse and incest in northern Uganda.

Uganda's Stolen Innocence

Africa Eye investigates cases of FGM in Sierra Leone.

FGM: For the Love of Fatmata

Africa Eye investigates how members of the LGBT community in Nigeria are targeted by criminal gangs who pose as potential dates on popular apps.

Kito: Blackmailing LGBT Nigeria

BBC Eye investigates websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually assaulting women on trains, buses and other crowded public places across East Asia.

Catching a Pervert

The story of a disturbing online community, the internet sleuths that hunted down the perpetrators and the race to save baby monkey Mini.

The Monkey Haters

How Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy got hooked on amphetamines.

Syria: Addicted to Captagon

Lea has become a beacon of hope for sickle cell sufferers across Africa, battling the stigmas surrounding the disease and the authorities who fail to provide adequate care.

Sickle Cell: The Enemy Within

Africa Eye investigates a leading anti-slavery charity and their West African operation.

The Night They Came for Our Children

With unprecedented access, BBC Eye explores the world of pro-Russian ultra-nationalists in Serbia, which has long been torn between East and West.

Blood Brothers: The pro-Russian Serbians

With life expectancy increasing, many African families are turning to care homes for help. Are the elderly getting the care they need?

Betrayed: Elderly Care Exposed

BBC Africa Eye investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants. Reported by Ayanda Charlie.

Fear and Loathing in South Africa

Your phone is private. Or is it? A BBC investigation exposes the blackmail scam causing misery in India.

The Trap: India’s Deadliest Scam

Africa Eye's Khadidiatou Cissé, travels to Gabon to investigate one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in the history of football.

Predators on the Pitch

Nearly twenty years ago the half-naked body of a Thai woman was found by walkers in a remote part of the Yorkshire Dales in England. The autopsy proved inconclusive.

Lady of the Hills: The Thai Wife Killing

Corporal punishment in Kenyan schools has been banned for over twenty years. Yet teachers are beating their students on a daily basis and the consequences can be fatal. BBC Africa Eye’s Tom Odula goes on a journey to investigate the extent of the problem and what can be done to address it.

Taught to Fear

BBC Africa Eye revisits Nairobi to find out what impact the broadcast of the 2020 investigation 'The Baby Stealers' had in Kenya's fight against child trafficking.

What Happened to the Baby Stealers?

Five people from Gaza document their struggle to survive the war, using their phones to record stories of loss and resilience in a worsening humanitarian crisis.

Gaza Diaries

Thousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion. But what of those who decided military service was not for them?

Ukraine's Draft Dodgers

An estimated seven women die every day from unsafe abortions in Kenya. BBC Africa Eye investigates the battle for abortion rights in a country where unregulated terminations are a leading cause of maternal deaths, claiming the lives of over 2000 women each year.

Breaking the Silence: Abortion Rights in Kenya

How the hidden toxic air pollution of the oil giants is spreading hundreds of kilometres, putting the health of millions of people at risk in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq.

Breathless

A VHS tape of a preacher performing ‘miracles’ changes two teenagers’ lives forever.

Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (1)

Trapped in TB Joshua’s church in Lagos, his disciples are drawn deeper into his abuse.

Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (2)

Joshua’s church guest house collapses, killing 116 people. Could this disaster expose him?

Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua (3)

The story of an elite Russian Marine Brigade during the battle for Vuhledar in Ukraine.

They Call Us Meat

This film from BBC News Arabic follows three Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics in northern Gaza across the first month of the war, as they save lives in the area hardest hit by Israeli airstrikes.

Gaza 101: Emergency Rescue

Mayor of Freetown finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.

Mayor on the Frontline

BBC Africa Eye investigates the trafficking of Malawian women into a life of servitude as domestic workers in Oman, and follows an extraordinary network of women who, working across three continents, are fighting to bring them home against often impossible odds.

Trapped in Oman

Gaza reporter Adnan El-Bursh’s video diary sheds light on the immense challenges faced by Palestinian journalists in Gaza as they report on their war-torn homeland.

My War: Reporting Gaza

Five years after the declaration of a national state of emergency over rape and sexual violence, Sierra Leone is still grappling with shocking levels of gender-based violence.

Behind Closed Doors

Amid a surge of military takeovers, worsening security and greater repression, nearly a third of Africa's nations are heading to the polls. Child of the rainbow nation - Nomsa Maseko - asks where democracy is now headed across the world's fastest growing continent.

Africa: The Battle for the Ballot Box

After protesting in Tehran Nika Shakarami never went home. Iran claimed she killed herself. But a purported confidential report details a killing and a cover up by security forces.

Nika's Last Breath

South Africa’s murder rate is now at a twenty year high – one of the highest in the world. There were more than twenty-seven thousand murders last year. With trust in the police falling, Ayanda Charlie meets the frontline communities who are fighting back.

Crime and Punishment in South Africa

In South Korea K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped and humiliated were shared.

Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Groups

As Kenya’s cost of living rises, so too does violent crime. Reporter Elijah Kanyi investigates the devastating human impact of illegal firearms in Kenya’s slums.

Guns in the Shadows

Top perfume brands may have "worst form of child labour" in their jasmine supply chains, considered one of the most valuable ingredients in some of the world's most iconic perfumes, a BBC Eye investigation reveals.

Perfume's Dark Secret

BBC reports from Sudan’s forgotten conflict and investigate allegations of war crimes.

Inside Sudan's Forgotten War

In the Central African Republic, one of Africa’s poorest countries, local sand diver Thomas Boa and Chinese construction manager Jianmin Luan struggle to improve their fortunes. They “eat bitter” today in the hope of a better tomorrow, but with no guarantees of what their futures may hold.

Eat Bitter

At least one elderly person loses their life every week in the name of witchcraft in Kenya’s stunning Kilifi coast. Africa Eye investigates the true motives behind these brutal acts, revealing that many are targeted by the very people who should be protecting them - their own families.

Cry Witch: Take My Land, Take My Life

BBC Eye Investigations and BBC News Brasil uncover the truth behind the rise of wellness influencer and spiritual life coach, Kat Torres, and the international search for her trafficked followers.

Like, Follow, Trafficked: Insta’s Fake Guru

One of worst mass killers in South Africa’s history is free from prison. He is finally ready to speak; and 30 years on, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice.

The Apartheid Killer

Four female BBC presenters, who fled Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021, are helping to bring education back to Afghan children. This is their story.

Afghanistan: For the Sake of My Sisters

Extremist settlers are receiving money and land from powerful groups with ties to the Israeli government and are using it to build illegal settlement outposts, BBC Eye reveals.

Settlements Above the Law

30 years ago, a journalist in the Indian state of Bihar filmed a series of shocking confessions: midwives admitting they routinely murdered new-born baby girls. Using this unseen archive, BBC Eye explores the disturbing story of infanticide in rural India.

The Midwife's Confession

Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba, reporting for BBC Africa Eye, investigates ‘Highway 10’ a transatlantic drug smuggling route from South America to Europe, via West Africa. He also searches for an alleged drug trafficker known as ‘Fox’ who Brazilian police believe is the mastermind of an operation to transport 1 tonne of cocaine.

Finding Mr Fox

More than 20,000 women are estimated to be engaged in sex work in Sierra Leone. For four years, film-maker Tyson Conteh was given unprecedented access to document the dangers that sex workers face in his hometown of Makeni.

Sex Work: Lives in the Shadows

It’s a crisis that has already featured exploding pagers, assassinations, and a massive ballistic missile strike. What for months has been a simmering border crisis between Israel and the forces of Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon has escalated into a much more deadly conflict.

Middle East: On the Brink

A family home in Vuhledar, Ukraine, becomes the backdrop of three lives torn apart by war: Marina, a refugee; Olexii, a prisoner of war; and Fima, a Russian soldier.

Number 17: My House of Horrors

BBC Africa Eye investigates what is fast becoming the world's deadliest migration route: the perilous Atlantic crossing from west Africa to Spain's Canary Islands.

Dark Waters

Amid a backdrop of rising nationalism, police violence, and social tensions in France, some young French Africans are turning to the continent in search of, what they say, is a better life.

The Homecoming

Africa Eye goes undercover to expose the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women and fuelling an underground trade in black market babies.

Nigeria’s Miracle Baby Scammers

“My Faith, My Truth” is an intimate portrait of a deeply religious couple who are silently living with AIDS while striving for acceptance among their church community in the Central African Republic.

My Faith, My Truth

They’re green on the outside, appearing to be loyal to the army. But inside they’re red, working for the pro-democracy uprising. BBC Eye reveals why military moles are prepared to risk everything.

The Watermelons

BBC 100 Women reveals the remarkable true story of three women in a notorious Iranian prison, jailed after protests against the hijab.

Songs from Inside

In the Indian state of West Bengal, children are routinely maimed, blinded, or killed by home-made bombs. BBC Eye asks why the carnage is allowed to continue.

Children of the Bombs

On a quiet Sunday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a residential building in Lebanon, killing 73 people. Nawal Al-Maghafi investigates who they were and why the building was hit.

Targeted: Lebanon's Deadliest Attack

Child Soldiers: The Untold Story of Iran-Iraq’s Frontline Children

After a Saudi trans woman's death went viral, BBC Eye investigates the final months of her life and the claim that she was misled into returning to Saudi Arabia from the US.

Saudi and Trans: Eden's Final Message

For more than a decade, West Africa has been in the grip of an opioid crisis. But who’s making these illegal, addictive pills? BBC World Service goes undercover to find out.

India's Opioid Kings

On TikTok live streams, girls as young as 15 are selling sexual content. BBC Africa Eye investigates to find out who is profiting.

Liked, Lured, Livestreamed

Investigation into Chinese police use of psychiatric hospitals to silence critics, hearing from people who dared protest only to be drugged and labelled mentally ill.

Trouble Makers: Drugged, Framed and Detained

BBC Africa Eye goes undercover to track down rogue relocation agents who squeeze thousands of pounds from aspiring migrants with the false promise of a job in the UK.

Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers

With unprecedented access inside Darfur, BBC World Service investigates allegations of genocide carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s civil war.

Inside Darfur: Siege & Massacres

China’s cosmetic surgery industry is booming - but the surge in demand has led to a shortage of qualified practitioners and licensed clinics.

Make Me Perfect: Manufacturing Beauty in China

This film reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq. Its campaign against the militant PKK group has killed Iraqi Kurdish civilians and forced farmers off their land.

Turkey's Hidden War: The Forbidden Zone

In Hong Kong’s new “patriots-only” era, anonymous informing is now the norm. BBC Eye investigates how the security law reshaped the city after mass calls for democracy.

Rise of the Patriots

In 2024, a protest at Kenya’s legislature was ended by the gunfire of security forces. To this day, those shooters’ faces have remained hidden. BBC World Service exposes the men responsible.

Blood Parliament

Cameroonian journalist Blaise Eyong exposes the violent realities of the Anglophone Crisis —a conflict that has gripped the country's two English-speaking regions for nearly a decade.

The Land That Bleeds

Eye Investigations examines evidence of targeted abductions and assassinations by the Iranian regime abroad, and the links to one man – Iranian organised crime boss Naji Sharfi Zindashti.

Iran: Murder for Hire

Russia’s citizen informers target critics of the war in Ukraine. They work in secret or in public. Their victims face prosecution, creating an atmosphere of fear.

Informers: Hunting the Enemy Within

Three years after Sidhu Moose Wala was killed, BBC Eye investigates the murder that shocked India - and asks how he ended up on the wrong side of the country’s most feared gang.

The Killing Call

BBC Eye investigates the popular uprising that led to the downfall of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5 2024, when 36 days of protest ended in bloodshed.

The Battle for Bangladesh

In just three months last year, 79 children died through gunshot wounds or stabbings on SA's Western Cape. Police reported 263 gang murders. Africa Eye investigates Cape Town gang violence.

Inside Cape Town’s Gang Wars

Africa Eye uncovers child sex trafficking in Kenya’s transit town Maai Mahiu and follows one woman, 'Baby Girl', who rescues girls from abuse and exploitation.

Madams: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade

In August 1978, Musa al-Sadr, the Lebanese Shia leader, vanished during a visit to Libya. BBC Eye presents significant new evidence that may hold the clue to the cleric's fate.

The Mystery of Musa al-Sadr

Inside Russia’s teenage mephedrone market : BBC Eye meets the addicts, dealers, smugglers and police battling the brutal synthetic drug market.

Meow Meow: Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis

How hundreds of children were held in global donation-supported orphanages by the sanctioned Assad regime in order to extort their relatives and why many have never been found.

Syria’s Stolen Children

Over the past year, BBC Eye Investigations has collected video diaries documenting the lives of some of the people who chose to stay in the city, capturing the deeply personal moments of those on the front line as President Trump's stance on the war in Ukraine shifts.

Kharkiv War Diaries

When the mysterious death of a 23-year-old Ugandan in Dubai goes viral, she becomes the face of the disturbing #DubaiPortaPotty. Behind the rumours lies an even darker reality.

Death in Dubai

BBC Eye goes undercover in a fake news network spreading propaganda in Moldova.

Rigged: Undercover in a Fake News Network

Africa Eye investigates South Africa’s underground psychedelic therapy industry, where the pursuit of healing can have devastating consequences.

Shadow Healers: South Africa's Psychedelic Journey

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a miner digs for his dreams hoping the “grey gold” of coltan, used in much of today’s electronics, can bring his family back together.

Blood in the Earth

Before November's upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, Africa Eye reporter Ayanda Charlie investigates the city's abandoned and hijacked buildings.

A City Held Hostage: Johannesburg

Featuring behind the scenes footage of the criminal investigation and firsthand testimony from survivors, “No Justice, Just Kills” investigates the flawed prosecution of US marines implicated in the 2005 killing of women and children in Haditha, Iraq. Two decades later, two survivors try to find out who was responsible for their families’ deaths, and why those who pulled the trigger walked free.

No Justice, Just Kills

Sierra Leone’s hidden ritual market, where criminals posing as healers claim they can supply human body parts, while traditional healers and police fight to stop the trade.

Money Rituals: Africa’s Deadliest Taboo

BBC Eye uncovers evidence suggesting Georgian police used water cannons laced with a chemical weapon against protesters last year.

When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia

In February 2025, Trump offered Afrikaner farmers refugee status, citing “genocide” in South Africa. Claire Mawisa visits Free State to probe the claims and meet families seeking a new life.

White Asylum: America's South African Refugees

A BBC Eye investigation into Chinese disciplinary schools found that they collude with parents to abduct troubled teens, forcing them into military-style regimes to ‘fix’ them at a devastating cost.

The Schools that Break Children

BBC Eye exposes a global scam network claiming to raise millions for children with cancer in war zones and deprived areas, but funds never reach them, leaving some without potentially lifesaving care.

The Child Cancer Scam

This film follows staff and expectant mothers through a year at the Holy Family Hospital, Bethlehem, which serves all women regardless of religion or ethnicity.

Born in Bethlehem

BBC Eye exposes how Russia is recruiting young foreign men to fight in its war against Ukraine, uncovering deception, exploitation, and shattered lives.

Into The Void: Putin's Foreign Fighters

Africa Eye is given exclusive access to the Sierra Leone Police as they target criminal gangs trafficking vulnerable people across West Africa and help one father try to find his missing children.

Hunting the Traffickers

A BBC Eye investigation in which an Interpol whistleblower reveals the international police organisation’s failure to stop Russia abusing its wanted list for its political ends.

Wanted: The Interpol Files

A wave of enforced disappearances of government critics is spreading fear across Tanzania. Africa Eye investigates these abductions through powerful testimony from survivors of abduction and torture.

State of Fear

Criminals are hiding secret cameras in hotel rooms and private homes across China to secretly film unsuspecting victims having sex and then selling the footage online.

Exposed: China's Spycam Porn

BBC Eye investigates the 2025 Gen Z uprising in Nepal. Using exclusive footage the investigation reveals what happened, why and who gave the order to shoot.

Gen Z Under Fire

Africa Eye follows Puntland forces on the front line in far-eastern Somalia, examining how the Islamic State group has regrouped, drawn in foreign fighters and expanded its influence across Africa.

Shadow War: Islamic State Group in Africa

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All Episodes of Eye Investigations

Season 1

Under Poisoned Skies

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2022

Occupied

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2022