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Foreign Correspondent Season 23

March. 18,2014
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Foreign Correspondent Season 23 Full Episode Guide

Episode 30 - The Italian Solution
First Aired: October. 14,2014

In an Australian TV first, Sophie McNeill hitches a ride on an Italian navy boat as more than 800 people are plucked out of the Mediterranean, just a tiny drop in an ocean of people fleeing Libya to seek asylum in Europe.

Episode 29 - Kenya - Inside Out
First Aired: October. 07,2014

Sally Sara goes inside some of Kenya's toughest jails to investigate an innovative program that is seeing convicted criminals learn how to set themselves free, using the justice system.

Episode 28 - China - Crackdown
First Aired: September. 30,2014

As Australia lifts its terror alert to high, China is intensifying its crackdown on a resident Muslim community in the remote northwest of the country in what it claims is its own war on terror. Stephen McDonell reports.

Episode 27 - South Africa - Symphony In Soweto
First Aired: September. 23,2014

Sally Sara meets the new generation of Soweto. The black township was once a byword for suffering and squalor but it's always had an unassailable spirit and now it's undergoing a dramatic transformation.

Episode 26 - Northern Ireland - The Disappeared
Episode 25 - Nepal - The Road
First Aired: September. 09,2014

The kingdom of Upper Mustang, Nepal is the last outpost of authentic Tibetan Buddhism. Cut off from modernity, foreigners were banned until 1992. Now a road is being built all the way to China. Can the unique culture survive?

Episode 24 - Palau - Take A Long Line
First Aired: September. 02,2014

Whether you enjoy tuna on a sandwich, or as sashimi, you need to know that Pacific stocks are being fished out at an alarming rate. Can the small equatorial paradise of Palau turn the tide by banning foreign fishing vessels?

Episode 23 - Sierra Leone - Ebola: Into The Hot Zone
First Aired: August. 26,2014

A special report on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Our team, which was the last camera crew into the hardest hit areas before a Government lockdown, has been at the frontline for one of the worst weeks in the Ebola crisis.

Episode 22 - Japan - Return Of The Samurai
First Aired: August. 19,2014

An in-depth look at the rise of militarism in Japan as tensions with China coincide with major changes to the country's pacifist constitution. The story exposes the deep rifts in Japanese society over the issue.

Episode 21 - East Timor - The Clinic
First Aired: August. 12,2014

Foreign Correspondent travels to Dili, East Timor and witnesses a country facing a myriad of health problems. We follow the challenging daily life of Dr Dan Murphy as he treats people overwhelmed by the diseases of poverty.

Episode 20 - Norway - The Gender Mission
Episode 19 - Scotland - You Take The High Road And I'll Take The Low Road
Episode 18 - Syria - A Gangster Goes To War
First Aired: July. 22,2014

Foreign Correspondent presents an extraordinarily intimate and confronting journey as a violent, criminal king-pin leaves his turf behind to head to Syria's frontlines to fight a war he doesn't really comprehend.

Episode 16 - Mexico - The Last Resort
Episode 15 - Myanmar - A New Dawn
First Aired: July. 01,2014

What happens when a vacuum-sealed, strictly-controlled nation opens its doors and ushers in aggressive international businesses, hungry global developers and curious tourists? Sally Sara reports from Yangon, Myanmar.

Episode 14 - Cairo: Ordeal In Egypt
First Aired: June. 24,2014

As judgement arrives for Australian journalist Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues in Egypt, family and key players feature in this special report by ABC Middle East correspondent Hayden Cooper.

Episode 13 - USA - Cannabis Inc.
Episode 12 - Jordan - Home Away From Home
First Aired: June. 10,2014

The Hariri's are an ordinary family who've had their lives shattered by war. Like 2.8 million other Syrian refugees, this family thought they were leaving their home for only a few weeks, but will they ever return?

Episode 11 - Tiananmen - Australia's Witnesses
First Aired: June. 03,2014

China has changed dramatically since the crackdown and wholesale slaughter in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. For the first time Australia's embassy staff assemble with their first-hand accounts of the days that stained China.

Episode 10 - Pakistan - The Polio Emergency
First Aired: May. 27,2014

An immunisation program saw Polio retreat from the developed world - then a concerted campaign in the '80's all but wiped it out in the developing world. So why has Pakistan become a polio hotspot with cases on the rise?

Episode 9 - Spratly Islands - Reef Madness
Episode 8 - Afghanistan - Groomed to Kill
Episode 7 - Cuba - Inside Gitmo
First Aired: April. 29,2014

Shaker Aamer, hands and feet shackled, was dragged into Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay prison more than 4,500 days ago. No charges, no trial. North America correspondent Lisa Millar inspects the infamous prison, Guantanamo Bay.

Episode 6 - Canada, South Africa - Granpower!
Episode 5 - India - The Babymakers
First Aired: April. 15,2014

Foreign Correspondent investigates India's booming international surrogacy industry by following Australian couples hoping to start or build their families by paying Indian women to bear them a child.

Episode 4 - Dubai - Trapped Part 2
First Aired: April. 08,2014

In the second part of our exclusive report, Foreign Correspondent hears how Marcus and Julie Lee eventually escaped, and examines the controversial deal in more detail, hearing from all the main players for the first time.

Episode 3 - Dubai - Trapped Part 1
First Aired: April. 01,2014

In Dubai, Australian Marcus Lee was accused of a multi-million dollar fraud he never committed. But it took him 7 months of jail time and a legal battle lasting years before he and his wife Julie would be free.

Episode 2 - Chile - Facing The Past
First Aired: March. 25,2014

Sally Sara follows the trail of a woman accused of involvement in serious, violent crimes in her homeland. Now living quietly in suburban Australia, the families of the dead are demanding she return to face justice.

Episode 1 - Ukraine - Moscow Rules
First Aired: March. 18,2014

With breathtaking speed, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the armed takeover of a key part of a neighbouring country and dared the world to do something about it. Eric Campbell is there for the countdown.

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